Describes relevant, real-world marketing education activities: (1) mock job application/procurement in which students prepare job descriptions, review applicant credentials, and follow hiring guidelines; and (2) proposals for new products and reports on their feasibility. (SK)

Explains why technology courses should expose students to advanced composites. Addresses such concerns as cost and health, safety, and environmental issues. (SK)

Discusses how to share technology-based lessons with other teachers. Includes an outline for documenting activity suggestions and offers recommendations for preparing print resources for colleagues. Includes essential elements of a published technology-based activity. (JOW)

Discusses learning objects that encompass a learning activity so they are more than just a digital resource. Reports on a feasibility study for metadata to record process-oriented information about instructional approaches for learning objects, through a set of Educational Rationale tags which would allow authors to describe their design intent.…

Reviews the past 25 years of electricity consumption in the United States and considers the implications for the near future. Discusses strategies for energy conservation and provides a student activity for measuring and conserving electric power. (Author/JOW)

Describes an activity in which students learn about sorting and classifying. Involves students determining what animal or geometric figure is on their back by asking their peers yes/no questions. (JRH)

Explores mathematics and parent-child interactions in a group of 21 parents and their four-year-old children. Findings indicate a wide range of mathematics displayed with counting being the most prevalent activity. All parents succeeded in injecting some mathematics in most sessions. Questioning children's knowledge was found to be the main…

Discusses problems that arise in elementary school education: improper equipment and lack of facility support; and insufficient resources and slow processes that lead to bottlenecks during student projects. Suggests solutions: fortify the top three pieces of equipment, alternate activities, use group brainstorming and problem solving. (JOW)

Provides a rationale for inclusion of biotechnology in technology education. Describes an instructional strategy that uses behaviorist, cognitive, and constructivist learning theories in two activities involving photobioreactors and bovine somatotropin (growth hormone). (Contains 39 references.) (SK)

Provides an excerpt from the author's book by the same title in which he shares an account of how a playwright guides the children from start to finish in writing and performing their own plays. (MG)

Describes a method of instruction that has been used successfully to teach idiomatic language. (MG)

Discusses methods for drawing birds to outdoor education areas, including the use of wild and native vegetation. Lists specific garden plants suitable for attracting birds in each season. Includes a guide to commercial bird seed and instructions for building homemade birdfeeders and nestboxes. (LZ)

Offers reflections and guidance on network navigation. The history of Internet growth and development, adding information to the network, guidelines for network behavior, and learning to use networks are covered. The results of the May 1993 "Internet Hunt" for 10 pieces of information and the pathways used to find the information are…

Describes two learning activities that help students understand the difference between main ideas and the topic of a paragraph or passage. (MG)

This student learning activity explores the history and evolution of packaging technology and concerns about plastics and other packaging materials. (SK)