Presents an innovative approach to teaching vocabulary to high school students. (FL)

Discusses four basic objectives of a quality program for 2-year-old children. Argues that the real world of teaching toddlers centers on the socialization of the children in a safe environment stimulating to cognitive development. Teachers should prepare the physical environment and provide social learning, physical development, and cognitive…

Outlines the theoretical background of repertory grid analysis (respondents describe feelings towards particular points in the environment and articulate these responses into meaningful terms). Demonstrates two applications of this technique: (1) landscape evaluation and (2) agricultural decision-making. (Author/JN)

Examines the theory behind a classroom process for clarifying one's inner voice. Argues for helping students gain control of their lives by questioning and reacting to those controlling them. Concludes that teachers and students will discover that this type of inner voice orientation for teaching is ever-expanding. (FL)

Suggests activities focusing on the relationship between meeting human survival needs and the environment for use with junior high students in geography courses. Students learn about human survival needs, the earth's systems, and the sun's roles as an energy producer. (RM)

Presents a role-playing activity for Canadian upper-elementary and secondary social studies classes on the debate which led to the entry of Newfoundland into the Canadian Confederation in 1949. Historical background, role-cards, and procedures for organizing the activity are included. (AM)

Outdoor environmental education activities were designed as part of a field trip focusing on design concepts. The field trip consisted of four sessions: (1) acclimatization; (2) patterns and layout; (3) form and function; and (4) moods and patterns. Activities related to each session are described and discussed. (JN)

An outline for a fourth grade local history course is presented. A historic study of the local community should focus on social/cultural, political, and economic community roots. An annotated listing of three local history books written specifically for children, which have received accreditation, is provided. (RM)

College students learned English vocabulary words using a keyword or no-strategy control technique. The keyword technique did not enhance recall of the actual vocabulary word when the definition was given unless the vocabulary word per se was integrated in memory before presentation of vocabulary word-definition pairings. (Author/RD)

Recommends that junior high school social studies classroom teachers incorporate information about the imminent and continuing shortages of energy into the curriculum. One way of organizing this information is as an inverted isosceles triangle in which energy, environment, and social studies education serve as sides of the triangle. Sample lessons…

Middle school students practiced their math skills and learned about the stock market by selecting and managing their own hypothetical portfolios of real stocks. (SJL)

Art becomes "moving life" as students portray characters in museum works of art. (Editor/SJL)

The authors describe a simulation game for gifted children which involves three factions--government, business, and labor--who have to come to agreement on questions, contracts, and environmental controls. Sections outline pregame activities, statement of the problem, game objectives, the scenario, characters and their goals, procedures, and…

Suggests activities for the study of hawk migration: development of identification skills using the accompanying flying hawk silhouettes, photographs, and drawings; binocular spotting games; selection and outfitting of a hawk watching station; follow-up map study; ecological and historical perspectives. (NEC)

In this activity for high school American government classes, students examine and discuss six documents concerning the transfer of power to Lyndon Johnson after the Kennedy assassination. The objective of the lesson is to help students understand how power is gained and used. (AM)