Describes activities designed to teach students about embedded recursion. Topics cover providing intuitions about embedded recursions, predicting embedded recursions, seeing patterns and processes, presenting graphic designs containing embedded copies of themselves, and exploring graphics, numerical, and word examples. Parts I and II are in…

Cross-country skiing instruction can be done both inside and outside the gymnasium. This article provides activities to be performed inside to prepare students for skiing. Outside organization techniques and drills are suggested. A list of common errors is given. (DF)

A transdisciplinary staff of a preschool for multiply handicapped students worked with design students to develop learning boxes which include manipulable and tactile activities designed for stimulation and independent activity. (CL)

Describes a workshop designed as an inductive/deductive conceptual process enabling users to subjectively determine controversial issues inherent in advertisements. Methodology is intended to be integrated into a variety of public education or classroom contexts. Exercises involving free association, seeing the whole advertisement, the inner…

Social studies curriculum is modified for gifted intermediate and secondary students by incorporating strategies designed to foster creative thinking. The strategies are an outgrowth of futures and creativity research and include brainstorming, attribute listing, morphological synthesis, reverse historical chronology, webbing, consequence charts,…

Hearing impaired 7- and 8-year-olds participated in a social studies unit on the community that incorporated techniques of brainstorming, categorizing jobs, interviewing parents, and goal-setting. (CL)

Included in this section are brief articles on drawing altitudes of triangles, sketching parabolas, and visualizing variability. (MNS)

Movable or moving maps, made so that children can manipulate and assemble parts, promote active learning. Activities which can be used with elementary and secondary students are described. (RM)

Presents an activity in which students estimate the weight and volume of one million dollars in notes and coins of various denominations. Also presents several geometry activities. Student worksheets for the activities are included. (JN)

Games enlarged to human proportions are versatile and motivating tools for instruction with learning disabled students. Suggestions for construction and use of life-size game materials and "human sandwiches" are provided. (CL)

Reasons for having students make graphs are noted. Then specific graphing topics and materials appropriate for young learners are presented, including life-sized, floor, clothespin, felt-face, block, and magnetic graphs, and polls of pupils. (MNS)

Teachers of an integrated elementary classroom used cookie-sharing time as a learning experience for students. Responsible for dividing varying amounts of cookies daily, the students learned to translate their experiences to graphs of differing sophistication and analyses. Further interpretation and application were done by individual students…

A nutrition week in schools can be a useful motivation when used by a home economics teacher to involve all students and teachers in nutrition education. Summarized are suggestions for activities, demonstrations, and discussions for various classes, listed according to subject areas. (MS)

Locate your grade level and plot a course to skill building, understanding and fun. (Editor)

Provides a "laundry list" of classroom ideas, designed to jog teachers' memories and stimulate student interaction. (KS)