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Peer reviewedHawke, Sharryl Davis; Books, Kathy Jo – Social Studies Review, 1984
Simple but innovative strategies that fourth-grade California teachers can use for building student knowledge of California geography while reinforcing map skills throughout a typical fourth-grade state studies curriculum are presented. (RM)
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Geography Instruction, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Kough, Bill – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1984
Describes a computer graphics course for children in grades four and five. Presents six projects relating computer graphics with more traditional art activities. (MM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Creative Activities
Peer reviewedVliet, Donna; Sternberg, Susan – Art Education, 1989
Provides a lesson plan designed to introduce students in grades four-six to the concept of social realism as it is portrayed in twentieth century Latin American art. Uses Antonio Berni's "Noon Time" in implementing instructional strategies which enhance analysis, interpretation, and judgment. Suggests a creative activity for studying…
Descriptors: Art Education, Artists, Class Activities, Creative Activities
Download full textWirth, Harold E. – 1993
A fourth-grade teacher developed a unit on writing designed to help his students go from oral to written text after finding that only 4 of the 22 in his classroom had the organizational and writing skills to get their ideas on paper. The basis of the unit was a unique problem which the teacher himself was trying to solve in real life; namely, how…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Class Activities, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Peer reviewedHart, Susan – Canadian Social Studies, 1997
Advocates a vision of social studies that includes the contributions, perspectives, and experiences of women. Proposes focusing on personal narratives as a simple and effective method for accomplishing this. Outlines a model unit of study for a grade four social studies class. (MJP)
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Family History
Peer reviewedHoone, Claudia J. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1989
Argues the usefulness of timelines for fourth, fifth, and sixth grade history instruction, contending that timelines reveal history's unfolding better than fact-recall techniques. Presents ways to use timelines, including autobiographical, large display, and manipulative timelines, and combining timelines with biographies. Suggests timelines help…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biographies, Context Effect, Creative Writing
Peer reviewedGardner, Cynthia C. – Social Studies, 1997
Describes a fourth grade teacher's interdisciplinary efforts at imparting the joys of archaeology to her students. The students read fiction and non-fiction materials about the physical environments and participated in a series of hands-on learning activities. These involved simulated archaeological digs, personal artifacts, and realia. (MJP)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Archaeology, Class Activities, Experiential Learning
