Presents class activities, bulletin boards, songs, games, stories, plays, recipes, and art ideas for November and December, with emphasis on Thanksgiving, Book Week, and Christmas. (SJL)

Presents specific ideas for using television as a springboard to instruction in reading, writing, and other subject areas. (FL)

Tells of a project to develop and field test 10 role-play activities designed to enhance high school students' understanding of public policy issues involving science and technology. Seven references are listed. (FM)

Describes a remedial approach which provides math and communications instruction for applied arts and technology students. Looks at the problems of lack of time and math anxiety. Provides examples of math problems that show "real life" applications of math skills. Recounts how the problems are used in the classroom. (AYC)

Presents a selection of language arts ideas related to the presidential election campaign. Activities cover critical listening, role playing, vocabulary development, reading, oral speaking, and writing. (SJL)

Describes a system utilizing numbered chips to teach middle graders to manipulate positive and negative integers. (SJL)

Discusses two philosophies of education (essentialism and functionalism) and their relationship to the handwriting curriculum. (FL)

Described are techniques used to enliven spelling lessons. Included are confusibles (accept, except), people phrases (Mrs. O'Leary's Cow), words of interesting origins (freelance), and body spelling (handsome, handy). (KC)

Presents 33 interdisciplinary activities for enhancing a classroom unit on the ocean. Selected learning resources are listed. (Editor/SJL)

Describes recent publications and traveling exhibition services (and related materials) of the Smithsonian Museum. (RH)

These individual and group activities are designed to help students learn to analyze, evaluate, and remember stories they've read. (SJL)

Describes the preparation and content of two short tape-recorded listening development exercises for students. (SJL)

Describes activities selected from study guides supplied by educational film distributors that provide a feel for the experimental approach to film appreciation and a stimulus for teachers to develop similar activities. (FL)

Brief answers are provided to 50 questions concerning basic reading research and how a parent can help teach reading. (SJL)

Suggests that live plants can brighten up the classroom and can serve as the focus of interdisciplinary learning activities for elementary students. Briefly describes the organization of a "living laboratory" in an elementary school. (SJL)