Designed to be used before and after attending a performance of the musical play "The Very First Family" (in which a Stone Age family and their neighbors bring three of Rudyard Kipling's stories to life), this cue sheet for teachers presents information about the performance and suggests classroom activities. The activities in the cue…

Presents one teacher's observations on the activities happening in the writing and drawing classes in New York's P. S. 84. (RB)

Reports what children had to say in interviews, discussions, and stories after completing the initial activities in a unit on chimpanzees. (RB)

Drama and movement bring delight, happiness, increased learning into every aspect of the English program. (JH)

Examines motives that can serve as the framework for a creative composition course and suggests some specific creative writing procedures. (DD)

The work described and shown in this article was produced by Elementary and Special Education majors participating in an art course for college credit prior to entering the teaching profession. They combined creative concepts with the use of papier-mache. (Author/RK)

Stage almost any story or subject with characters that children fabricate, decorate and manipulate. (Editor)

Instructions are given for creating earth dyes in the classroom. These dyes be used in the teaching of social studies, science, and art. A chart listing sources of natural dyes is offered. (DF)

Identifies six major techniques used to evaluate the creative work of theatre faculty. Explores major problems associated with each technique. (PD)

Points out the merits of the model that assesses creative activities as analogous to scholarship in evaluating teachers for promotion. (PD)

Considers the model to validate the creative activities of theatre artists as limited, unworkable, and unacceptable. (PD)

A window transparency is made from black paper strips and colored tissue papers. The three visual elements of line, shape and color are emphasized for this project. (Author)

Students learned to create head forms with clay at a special introductory class in Clay Portrait Sculpture at Vacaville High School, Vacaville, California. (Author/RK)

This book offers a wide variety of easy-to-make crafts, including toys, games, and gifts, and each project begins with a box. The book provides directions, a materials list, and suggestions for setting aside a work area. The projects are illustrated with large full-color photographs and explained with simple step-by-step instructions. Contains a…

Gifted students can increase skills in a wide variety of areas by making slide tape presentations. The activity, both process and product oriented, includes steps of selecting a topic, writing a script, developing graphics, taking pictures for slides, developing audio, selecting music, and integrating the slides with the audio. (CL)