Provided is a collection of teacher developed activities for teaching social adjustment skills to elementary school students. Activities are categorized in such skill areas as communication, social, motor, and perceptual; and most include goal or purpose, grade level, and a list of materials needed. (IM)

Teachers in the English department at the Harley School, Rochester, New York, developed a program in theater as a continuing and inherent part of the English curriculum. (Author/RK)

To instruct prospective and practicing industrial education teachers to be resourceful in the classroom, the utilization of all available resources and scrap materials for constructing various models and material testing devices for industrial education classes is discussed. (LH)

A teacher learned that by positively stimulating students to be creative he was able to help them and himself develop the control necessary to a productive classroom. (RK)

The digits in 1776 can be used in a variety of mathematical activities (especially during the bicentennial year). (SD)

A discussion of student contracting, a plan whereby a teacher and a student or a group of students make an agreement that a certain amount of work is to be completed in a certain amount of time. (Author/HB)

Several bicentennial games and puzzles, all using the number 1776, are described. (SD)

Three topics related to teaching mathematics are discussed: a problem with the order of operations, teaching fractions, and an application of the distributive property. (MP)

Described is a calculator race that is designed to require a fast touch with the calculator and also the ability to apply mathematical knowledge. Sample questions are given. (MP)

This activity unit provides an example of how the construction and interpretation of graphs can be incorporated into elementary classroom activities. (MP)

Reviews several cookbooks based on or complemented by well-loved children's stories, and suggests some classroom activities. (SJL)