Presents teaching strategies for introducing high school students to contract law. Offers as a case study a contract agreement between pro football players and team owners. Stresses basic elements of contracts (offer, acceptance, consideration, and understanding the bargaining process). Journal available from the American Bar Association, 1155…

Contains four suggested vocabulary learning activities, concentrating on (1) partitive expressions in street names, (2) sports vocabulary, (3) slang expressions, and (4) the many meanings of the words "jouer" and "jeu." (AM)

The article discusses the rationale for adopting a seemingly unrelated vehicle, such as cooking, for teaching gifted and other children such diverse subjects as geography, history, and language, and relates this to the concept of synectics (which holds that all subjects are interrelated). (Author/DLS)

Presents a variety of activity ideas for prekindergarten, kindergarten, and older children. (CM)

Presents ideas for creative music, mathematics, language, and social studies activities for use in the classroom. (CM)

Is it for elementary kids? A district gives some guidelines, a teacher her philosophy. (Editor)

Seven easy projects to get you through the last of the winter blahs! (Editor)

Comments on different modeling techniques discussed in a symposium on changing supervisory behavior. (RK)

Take a pawn. Check the king. Children joust with an age-old game and come up winners. (Editor)

A lull before you're off to lunch? Here are activities to sop up those extra minutes by reinforcing what you're taught. (Editor)

Provides suggestions on how to turn the classroom into an all-green growing center and how to harvest some good learning at the same time. (Editor/RK)

Presents eleven groups of activities students can undertake which deal with sidewalks and which involve both social studies and language arts skills. (DD)

Discussed are approaches for incorporating the study of values into secondary level social studies classrooms. Case studies and teaching strategies relating to ethical considerations are presented. (Author/DB)

Discusses a need for problem posing and gives a definition and explanation of the term. Highlights an environment in which problem posing is a natural process of mathematical learning. Presents activities supporting problem posing. Contains 16 references. (ASK)

Offers a technology education activity on the subject of manufacturing processes. Includes background information, concepts presented, objectives, equipment list, procedures, and suggested follow-up activities. (JOW)