The purpose of this booklet is to help teachers, scoutmasters, and other group leaders give elementary map and compass instructions in a manner that is both simple and fun. It is intended to be a guide for a training course on this subject. Much of the text is taken directly from an actual training course and is written in the manner of a teacher…

This manual on drugstore selling and merchandising, together with a separate answer key, is intended for trainees in distributive education. The 18 self-study assignments, developed by an instructional coordinator with the aid of college professors and leaders in business, cover a wide range of topics, from effective sales techniques to specific…

Every college and school library can benefit from a comprehensive picture file suited to its potential users. A new system is presented along with detailed instructions for the preparation and cataloging of pictures and other visual aids. Suggested subject categories and possible sources for pictures are listed. (Other documents in this series are…

The five sections of the document are: General Discussion; Classroom Experiences; Evaluation and Non-Lecture Teaching; A Closing Note; and Appendix. The ten papers presented are as follows: "Lecture Alternatives and the English Class" by Stephen Judy; "Let's See How it Goes: A View of the Teacher as Manager of Student-Initiated Activities" by…

In planning media systems for individualized study it is valuable to know if printed materials are as effective as projected materials in promoting student recall. An experiment to compare printed and projected materials utilized subjects from graduate school, the tenth, and the twelfth grade. Subjects were tested on images in either printed or…

Explored in this special issue of "Design Quarterly" are some of the existing data systems which describe, in visual terms, various urban entities: transportation systems, roadways, public buildings, land patterns, historical structures, as well as some new methods for developing physical information that will be widely used in the future. Through…

A 90-minute videotape demonstrates how to stage six stations simulating medical emergency problems to be solved by emergency medical technicians (EMT's) taking the National Registry's 150-question written final examination. The videotape also details the logistics of arranging the entire one-hour examination, used in over 30 States. (AJ)

Classroom teachers should work at altering classroom activity so that it is process-centered, so that it piques the curiosity of the students, and demands both left and right brain involvement. Literature can be used as well as any other art form in stimulating this kind of learning process. (Author/EB)

Students often have difficulty relating contour lines to the shape of a landform. This article describes the construction of a simple landform model designed to help students better understand contour lines. (MA)

Video cassette demonstrations are useful in teaching experimental techniques and instrumentation. This article describes how the recorded demonstrations save instructor and student time, how they can be integrated into a multimedia teaching format, and how recordings support student independence. (Author/BB)

Presents four lessons that introduce the use of the passive voice in the context of describing processes. (KM)

Presentation of a methodology for instruction in reading and interpreting graphs and charts in a foreign language class. Illustrated by several demographic charts, the discussion includes an explanation of graphic semiology, several pedagogical approaches, the relationship between written text and graph and a bibliography. (Text is in French.)…

A printed text can be considered a picture on which readers project their own image in order to understand its original meaning. This process is explained via several kinds of original documents. Implications for instruction in reading a foreign language are discussed and several examples are given. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Reports on a screen projectable model of atomic orbitals useful in developing a student's understanding of molecular structure. (SL)

Cartoons can be a stimulating and motivational force in the language classroom and, used effectively, can become an indispensible tool in the acquisition of language and culture. (Author/DB)