Presents ideas for a variety of learning activities, many with a February theme. Includes such things as valentine games, word games, ideas for new uses for old books, Lincoln and Washington activities, a shapes game, ideas for how to use skill cares, and activities for teaching syllables. (JMB)

Airline travel provides those interested in geography with opportunities to see and photograph rural and urban scenes. Author describes circuitous routing, joint fares, and stopover techniques that maximize domestic and international air travel experiences. Defines various airline and travel agent terminology. (Author/BC)

The game of Twenty Questions is seen as a useful method for learning about and developing cognitive skills in mentally retarded children. (SBH)

Discusses philosophies, problems, uses, and misuses of vocational agricultural contests with focus on improvement of classroom performance. (JH)

Discusses ways to use the outdoor environment (both natural and manmade) to teach children about shape and size, sets, geometry, counting, and measurement. (JMB)

Discussed is the development of an educational card game which provided increased spelling, writing, arithmetic and psychomotor opportunities for a 12-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. (CL)

Meant to be attention-getters, the activities work on two principles: that children need an immediate and personal purpose in order to pay attention; and that listening should be an involving activity, that is, a child needs to listen in order to do something with what is heard. (Author/NQ)

Provides examples of: (1) forms to be filled out on French daily life; (2) personal announcements in the newspaper; and (3) problems in municipal government, for use in an advanced French class. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Offers ideas for classroom activities centered around a tropical deep sea theme. (SB)

Describes a preschool class for handicapped children in which speech development is fostered through use of manual signing in combination with spoken language. (SB)

Moral development can be fostered through the use of "moral dilemmas," activities in which the child is asked to suggest courses of action to help fictional characters with their moral problems. (MB)

A list of activities for creative dramatics work in the classroom. (MM)

Suggests thirteen functional study skills activities. (DD)

Are you one of those people who feel that the only good insect is a dead one? Do you suffer from entomophobia--dread fear of insects? Such attitudes, fears, and prejudices stem from insect ignorance. Authors explain what insects are good for and give students a more realistic and fascinating view of their world. (Editor/RK)