Lists 10 activities used to develop and reinforce the concepts of main idea and generalizing, after describing how a particular teacher connected a favorite meal with the understanding of these concepts. (MG)

Describes "textsets" (two or more books related in some way) and how they can be used to benefit students. Includes suggestions that may prove to be helpful when considering using textsets in the classroom. (MG)

Offers curriculum activities using the language arts, cooperative group learning, and history/social science to guide students through a study of the multicultural origins of Halloween. (MG)

Just because an activity crosses subject matter lines does not make it worthwhile; it must also accomplish important educational goals. Learning activities should be educationally significant or desirable even without the integration feature. Activities should also foster, rather than disrupt or nullify, major goals in each subject area. (MLH)

Presents an activity in which students use a technique employed by blind or seeing-impaired students that incorporates mental imagery to visualize the theorem about central and inscribed angles subtended by congruent arcs in a circle. Provides an alternative proof proposed by students. (MDH)

Describes the Viva Kids! Program, in an inner-city elementary school in Florida, in which students create and produce their own opera, engendering great enthusiasm and giving students a new sense of responsibility. (SR)

The Culture Circles exercise involves pairs of students in describing their cultural background, customs, and role models and then describing these things from the point of view of a different cultural background. Debriefing discussions examine what is culture, whether people choose their identity, and the discomfort of difference. (SK)

Discusses the evolution of literacy in American society and considers the importance of information and media literacies. Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives is used as a framework to describe a set of intellectual skills and abilities that students are expected to master, and examples of activities are included. (LRW)

Discusses the use of Calvin & Hobbes comic strips to point out steps in the Big6 information problem-solving process. Students can see what Calvin is doing wrong and then explain how to improve the process. (LRW)

Describes activities of a deaf awareness week in a deaf-education program within a public elementary school. Emphasis is on exposure to deaf culture and history in age appropriate activities, involvement of the entire school and community, and a Friday night sleep-over at the school for deaf and hard-of-hearing students and staff. (DB)

In a joint exercise between required finance and organizational behavior courses, graduate students applied material for both classes to a single case study on acquisition and merger. Students conducted financial analyses, role played negotiations, and created an implementation plan. (SK)

Details how to create a low-cost groundwater field station for a college hydrogeology course. Discusses how students use the station to collect and interpret data from wells and to study spatial hydraulic-head measurements to comprehend groundwater flow. Explains why hands-on activities are a valuable addition to the course. (DSK)

Although students may learn in many ways, the essential skills and content they learn can remain steady. As demonstrated by three teaching approaches to the study of ancient Rome, students can take different roads to the same destination. Successful differentiation is rooted in student engagement and student understanding. (MLH)

Currently advocated agriculture teaching in the elementary classroom has historical precedents. Elementary agriculture curriculum in the early 20th century often followed Pestalozzi's recommendations and used hands-on activities such as nature study. By 1951, 21 states required agricultural education in rural elementary schools. (SK)

Presents an activity involving students in a research project with pictures like those commonly found in elementary school mathematics textbooks and workbooks to sharpen student appreciation of the need for standardized methods of data collection. Illustrates that several different interpretations of the operations of addition and subtraction are…