Describes an activity for college geography classes in which students study demographic transitions and spatial patterns which provide a clear understanding of what modernization implies in Middle and South America. Students make maps, construct scattergrams, and analyze birth rates, gross national products, and infant mortality rates in 19…

Discusses the legal rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants. Information is provided on evaluation of rental units, leases, written agreements, deposits, landlord's rights, condominium conversions, eviction, rent increases, and discrimination. Students role-play landlord-tenant negotiations. (AM)

Describes a problem-solving model developed by economists that incorporates the use of economics into the high school social studies curriculum. Model components include defining the issue, identifying objectives, looking for ways to achieve objectives, identifying pertinent economic concepts, analyzing alternatives, and evaluating which…

An evaluation of the effectiveness of experiential adjuncts to clinical psychology textbooks is reported. The adjuncts to the undergraduate course were films, exercises, and exposure to professional literature. Results indicate that the use of adjuncts to the text is a positive learning experience. (KC)

Discusses the advantages of using photographs in history instruction and suggests questions teachers can ask to help students analyze photographs. (SJL)

Focuses on the need to develop research skills in children so that they may become independent and critical users of research materials. Suggestions are given on how librarians can work with teachers to develop children's research skills. (Author/LLS)

Maintains that military geography should have a place in an overall college geography curriculum. Describes how several war games can help students relate geography to land warfare. (Author/DB)

To enliven her class' study of the American West, the author had students write letters as if they were pioneers heading west. The results were developed into a school play, an excerpt of which forms the bulk of this article. (SJL)

Describes a learning activity for secondary school students in which they experience and analyze the potential effect of culture, sex, and age on job selection and discrimination. From several biographical cards, students select the person most qualified for a predescribed job. (KC)

Provides specific examples of futuring activities appropriate for students in elementary school social studies programs. Activities involve students in making predictions about what their neighborhoods and families will look like in the future, thinking about what their values will be in the future, and making illustrated booklets showing specific…

Professional speakers often use simple mental recipes to organize impromptu talks. The author taught these recipes to his high school composition students and used a timed trial format to give them practice in rapidly outlining their thoughts on a given topic. Thirteen of these recipes are provided. (SJL)

Presents a sample exercise for a seventh-grade geography class using Pennsylvania highway maps. Part one is designed to provide practice in map reading skills. Part two focuses on unusual place names. (Author/SJL)

Instructions are given for ten learning activities designed to help third graders with telling time and with understanding the concepts of seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, seasons, and years. (SJL)

Designed to motivate word study in fifth graders, this learning center includes five separate stations with activities in etymology and language study. (SJL)

The rationale for providing media center projects for elementary gifted students is considered and an independent study project involving the student and the media specialist is described. Interaction between the student and media specialist is stressed and suggested projects for upper elementary students are listed. Guidelines for conducting…