A four-week third-grade class study of the Summer Olympics is described. Activities for studying the host and participating countries were incorporated through map, social studies, art, mathematics, and language arts activities. (CB)

Presents five learning activities which are designed to enable the student of psychology to better understand the aging and the aged. Activities are concerned with current demographic data, stereotyping, perceptions of personal aging, attitudes about age found in greeting cards, and an examination of popular culture's messages about the elderly.…

Describes a board game used to facilitate the learning of theoretical principles associated with the psychoanalytic perspective on personality. Covers rules governing play and special advantages of this learning experience. Game board is reproduced. (Author/LS)

A description is given of a course project which required college students to examine presidential candidates' positions on a variety of health issues. (IAH)

A variety of activities used in a three-week summer program for 55 students, aged 11 to 16 years, to develop leadership skills are described. Significant increases in scores on the Leadership Skills Inventory appeared to result from the course. (DB)

Presents activities and poems for children that can be integrated into the science curriculum. Discussion includes how poetry helps children heighten awareness of the environment, develop a close association with it, gain a respect for nature, and develop a sense of stewardship. A bibliography of 26 works of poetry is appended. (four references)…

Presents alternative assessment tools, including concept maps, initial and summary assessments, Vee diagrams, and three types of alternative learning activities that assess different levels of understanding. (MKR)

As a dramatic arts professor's experience shows, children's lack of arts education inhibits their ability to communicate ideas spontaneously, respond with feeling, and discern quality from commercial junk. By contrast, a role-playing/research activity with 15 youngsters helped students express themselves creatively and build community in a…

Schools must consider performance or authentic assessment as a way to increase learner interest, motivation, and independence. The Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory has developed a model that addresses the concerns of content-area standards and lifelong-learner outcomes. These include content-area concepts, complex-thinking processes,…

Ways to explore blowing bubbles through observation, experimentation, and discovery are suggested to stimulate gifted children, with attention to such areas as the function of film in the liquid and the reason for the common spherical shape of bubbles. Experiments that children can try and tips for the teacher are presented. (SW)

Presents a unit of study about acorns that involves science process skills and emphasizes interdisciplinary possibilities. (MKR)

Uses pattern blocks to model basic parts-of-a-whole fraction concepts. Suggests that students reflect these models in oral, written, pictorial, and symbolic representations. (MKR)

Provides measurement, estimation, and data analysis activities for grades three to four and five to six using boxes of cereal and containers of frozen yogurt. (MKR)

The more that students see themselves in everyday situations that involve mathematics, the more likely they are to be successful. Incorporating names, ages, and other personal data into mathematical activities is easy and fun. (MKR)