This article described a miniature throwing course for grades three, four, and five. (Author/RK)

Art described a ceramic mosaic completed by fourth grade students at the Little Britain Elementary School, Washingtonville School District, Newburgh, New York. (Author/RK)

20 auditory activities that train your students' ears and raise awareness. (Editor)

Article discussed a three-dimensional technique that can be used to teach the concept of space to elementary school age children. (Author/RK)

This document focuses on the role and activities of elementary school counselors. Elementary school counselors have the knowledge and skills to assist teachers and parents to help children get a good start to reach the goal of graduating good citizens. First the roles and functions of the elementary school counselor in these eight areas are…

These 21 ideas will have you and your students celebrating in a variety of ways. Whether you try some of the starter ideas or one of the plays, stories, poems, or song that follow, the shared experience will boost holiday spirits. (Editor)

This unit on checking accounts paid high dividends for the authors, two San Francisco teachers. Their fourth and fifth graders became a little wiser in math and money matters. (Editor/RK)

Touch down on a no-talking planet to help children explore some sensational experiences with drawing and writing. (Editor)

Demonstrates the variety of trucks and other commercial vehicles used to transport goods and services in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida community, attempts to broaden the students' awareness of career opportunities within the trucking industry, and to provide firsthand experiences in which students could use basic computation, communication and…

Those who decide to keep a child in an elementary grade for an additional year do so despite very persuasive research evidence that negative effects consistently outweigh positive outcomes. Retention suggests the student is solely responsible and is therefore a punishment rather than a solution. (MT)

Classifies various syntactic structures normally included in sentence-combining instruction into five categories: coordinates, adverbials, restrictive noun modifiers, noun substitutes, and free modifiers. Within each category, structures are further divided into three levels to provide teachers with guidelines for planning instruction. (RH)

Business education teachers have the background and knowledge to teach keyboarding basics to elementary school students, who need these skills for using microcomputers. (SK)

By providing children with both the tools to learn basic facts and access to facts not yet learned, teachers give children the freedom to attend to the meaning of algorithms and word problems, which play an important role in the application of mathematics in daily life. (MP)

Focuses on concept development as a major intellectual activity for elementary school children, and offers a structural sequence for teaching concepts which (1) involves children's experiences, (2) places the concept in a social, cultural, and historical context, and (3) treats the concept as complex and problematic rather than simple. (Author/CM)

Twenty-four paper craft projects for elementary school children. (CM)