The linguistic philosophies of H. P. Grice and J. L. Austin are discussed, and ways of applying their ideas to learning activities for gifted students are suggested. Grice's work focuses on prerequisites for successful conversation, the cooperative principle, and features of conversational implicature. Austin's work analyzes the distinction…

This guide is designed to provide elementary school teachers with a harmless, inexpensive, clean, odorless, and easy-to-care-for insect-rearing project for the classroom. The following topics are included: (1) instructions for the care and feeding of the beetle larvae; (2) student activities for observing larval characteristics and behavior…

A compilation of over 50 elementary school activities focuses on developing students' familiarity with the 50 states. Exercises such as word searches, scrambled word puzzles, shape puzzles, spelling bees, match games, and atlas games introduce students to the capitals, major cities, main characteristics, and location of each state. The document is…

The benefit of note taking appeared to be derived from having an opportunity to subsequently review notes, and not from the act of note taking itself. Encoding differences as a function of note taking were minimal, while the external storage function assumed primary importance. (Author/BJG)

Several activities focusing on the number 1976 are presented. (SD)

Calculation of the percentage of work completed when the edges of jigsaw puzzles have been assembled provides interesting problems. (SD)

Included in this article are the author's experiences in teaching children about the environment. In the school yard, students collect, plant seeds, and observe growth. Comparisons are made of animals and birds in habitat, food and characteristics. (BP)

How can a media center be organized to best serve a continuous-progress curriculum? This writer offers some suggestions that have worked in his school. (Editor)

Man's association with animals throughout the history of the United States is emphasized in these social studies activities. (JH)

In this article science kits were considered as units developed to encourage children to become actively involved in learning through the testing and investigation of a variety of materials. (Author/RK)

Describes the content of an instructional unit on nutrition prepared by the Dairy Council of California for primary-level school children and the results of its large-scale tryout in 30 California schools. (SDH)

Testing of Spanish students revealed that students preferred to learn vocabulary through use of synonyms or devices using similarity of implied class membership. (CK)

Article presented some suggestions for integrating television viewing into the teaching process. (Author/RK)