Offers suggestions for helping students in elementary level social studies classes become aware of their cultural and ethnic roots. Suggestions include directing students to interview parents, relatives, grandparents, and community members; invite people to class to tell why they came to America; investigate contributions of various immigrant…

A playful series of activities using the "Yellow Pages" as a resource. (Editor)

Shows how student journals can be used in a variety of subject areas to focus both student and teacher on the learning process inherent in writing. (RL)

The learning station process approach to curriculum enrichment in gifted education is considered. Key aspects of such an approach, including facilitator availability, spontaneity, flexibility, individualized and creative problem solving, and individual programing, are described. (CL)

Activities for teaching Ebonics-speaking children to differentiate between problematic standard English and Ebonic forms are presented. (Author/MC)

A list of teaching aids and activities suitable for honoring the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (SJL)

To avoid meeting the future unprepared, the article offers four training activities that can be used by small groups, in-house, to begin examining and preparing for whatever the future holds. Activities include (1) future headlines, (2) mini-delphi, (3) alternative futures analysis and review, and (4) strategies for concretizing identified future…

Discusses the effectiveness of a treasure hunt as an educational language-activity for students of English as a second language. Instructions for the treasure hunt and a sample list of items are included. (CFM)

Discusses reasons for teaching Shakespeare, types of responses to expect in students at different ages, a possible order for introducing Shakespeare's plays, available texts, traditional methods of teaching Shakespeare, the kinds of work being done by studdents studying Shakespeare, aids to teaching Shakespeare, possible related activities, and…

Folk dance can be utilized in the teaching of cultural awareness, as well as in traditional elementary school physical education classes. (LH)

The article suggests activities to help learning disabled children develop awareness of the differences between right and left. Techniques for combining movement, language, and sensory skills as well as for using musical, visual, and tactile stimuli are described. (CL)

Practical suggestions for vocational educators who are trying to modify classroom practices so that students can experience a sex-fair learning climate. Lists state sex equity coordinators. (JOW)

Mental imagery, a factor in learning and fantasy, can be used in multimodal career education programs to aid students in speculation about their futures. This multimodal approach addresses areas of human functioning such as behavior, affect, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal relations, and physiology. (Author/CC)

Presents method for introducing William Sheldon's approach to psychology through a classroom demonstration using student observations. Sheldon contends that three general body types relate to three types of personality. (KC)

Proposes some new approaches to teaching reading in the French classroom on the secondary level. (AM)