Provides a framework for understanding the value of water play for preschoolers and offers suggestions (materials and activities) for incorporating it into a program. (Author/ED)

Suggests ways to help children discover, study and appreciate nature through their senses, by teaching skills in observation, directing discussions of shared outdoor experiences, and helping children do research on a particular topic. (ED)

A classroom activity in which numbers are assigned to words on the basis of geometric configuration of the letters is described. (SD)

Make words come alive! Social studies and art can bring new dimensions to language. (Editor)

The use of mobiles to teach elementary and secondary social studies concepts about the American Revolution is presented. As an educational tool, mobiles provide hands-on learning activities; provide a framework of content, and facilitate a concept's synthesis for the average and below-average student. (Author/JR)

The data pool is a teaching technique that can help students to bridge the gap between facts and higher levels of thinking. Teaching suggestions for use of data pools are offered in this article. (Author/JR)

Articles presented six suggestions for stimulating young children to learn in springtime. (RK)

This article, directed toward classroom teachers, deals with music education as a special case of sound or sounds. Interdisciplinary activities aim to develop listening skills and musical discrimination. (TK)

Describes the establishment of a community study centre in a century-old school building in Fringford, England and discusses some activities in which school children participated. (SDH)

The use of a classroom demonstration to introduce students to introductory psychology is described. It is employed early in the semester and has been an effective way to preface many topics and issues that the general psychology course normally includes. The demonstration consists of the class listening to a tape for 5-6 minutes and recording…

Language teacher supervisors see their role as: (1) training teachers to go from their actual to ideal teaching behaviors; (2) providing a means for teachers to reflect on and work through problems in their teaching; (3) furnishing opportunities for teachers to explore new teaching possibilities; and (4) providing teachers with opportunities to…

This series of 20 self-contained lessons in the study of economics, features activities that can be used with any high school economics instruction. The lessons included are: (1) Opportunity Costs; (2) Factors of Production; (3) Economic Systems; (4) Self Interest; (5) Class Struggle; (6) Economic Institutions; (7) Supply and Demand; (8) Markets…

Serving as a way to sum up or apply many of the principles students have been studying in a general semantics course, a unit on advertising language is devoted to examining how advertisers select language for its affective and directive uses. The unit shows how language is used to stimulate consumer interest in a product and often to mask the lack…