As a kick-off for the Bicentennial, Ossining High School students redesigned their desk tops with symbols derived from the American flag. (Author)

As the world has evolved during the past century, so has the nature of career counseling. In the past, the profession focused predominantly on a directive and assessment-driven approach to career development that favored matching clients with the "right" job in order to facilitate their occupational decisions. In recent years, however, numerous…

This book provides a collection of easy-to-implement ideas and creative strategies designed to help teachers manage indoor recess by developing temporary playrooms. Chapter 1 helps teachers make a good assessment of the present situation. Chapter 2 encourages teachers to take heart, no matter how frustrated they may have been in the past, and…

Challenges the identification of literacy with intelligence and abstract reasoning ability. Suggests nonverbal projects as a way of broadening the definition of intelligence in the English classroom. A bibliography is included. (DF)

Aspects covered include introducing the equipment, planning the movie, shooting the picture, editing the film, recording the sound track, and presenting the finished film to an audience. The steps involved in making an animated film are also outlined. (DLS)

Suggests 21 ways that Mother Goose rhymes may be used to enliven lessons in all elementary subject areas. (SJL)

The suggested activities are designed to demonstrate that not all problems have answers, that some solutions are totally unexpected, and that not all effort needs to be channeled toward an objective. (Author/PHR)

Presents a variety of activity ideas for prekindergarten, kindergarten, and older children. (CM)

Seven easy projects to get you through the last of the winter blahs! (Editor)

An art teacher at South Shore High School in Brooklyn, New York, uses blot paintings as a wedge into the teenager's fantasy world thereby defining nebulous shapes into concrete, but often delightfully outlandish, subject matter. (Author/RK)

Describes how students, influenced by Victorian architecture, created ceramic slab houses. Students devised a solution to depict the reflective nature of Victorian bay windows. Project incorporates art history, handbuilding, and surface ornamentation. Outlines and illustrates steps involved in making slab houses that can be adapted for use by…

In a special art class, students combined their excitement about science, ecology and engineering to design and construct a model rocket center. (Author)

This article discusses techniques for reaching the metaphorical side of the brain. (PD)

Describes the class activities that lead to the making of a play and contains the script for a play entitled "The last of the Scotts," written and acted by students with the teacher serving as the producer. (RB)

Extension and creative homework are discussed in this paper. Extension homework is assigned in order to transfer an idea or skill to a new or different situation. This form of homework is one way to develop reasoning and critical thinking skills. Examples of this type of homework are book and article reports. Creative homework requires students to…