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Hall, Susan E. M. – Insights into Open Education, 1986
Two six-year old kindergartners from different classrooms were able to write books because their instructors recognized their enthusiasm and provided extra time. The first student, frustrated at not being able to finish rewriting "Cinderella" during the limited writing periods of the classroom, was allowed to finish the story over a…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Family Environment, Kindergarten, Primary Education
Download full textWelch, Mary A., Ed. – Economic Issues for Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources, 1996
This issue focuses on the costs of keeping up appearances by landscaping the environment. Although insects can be a threat to plant health, much of the injury they cause will only threaten plant appearance. The study comes from a survey of two groups, landscape specialists and homeowners, who were asked to identify which plants in a photograph…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Conservation (Environment), Economics, Environment
Scott, John A., Ed.; Seidman, Laurence I., Ed. – Folksong in the Classroom, 1989
This volume of a journal on folksong contains three issues devoted to environmental themes, showing how teachers may enlist song to help arouse their students to an awareness of the natural world. Issue 1 contains "Classroom Management Strategies for Teaching Music in History" (D. Georgi) and an introduction to the volume's theme,…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Curriculum Enrichment, Ecology, Elementary Secondary Education
Bratcher, Suzanne, Ed. – Arizona English Bulletin, 1987
Encouraging a professional dialogue among teachers of English, this journal issue focuses on teachers' feelings about their own lives, their classrooms, their students, their specialized knowledge, and their problems. The titles of the essays and their authors, are as follows: (1) "Of Pigs and Stars: A Nebraska Memory" (G. L. Nelson);…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, English Instruction, Literature Appreciation, Periodicals
Braus, Judy, Ed. – NatureScope, 1989
Ranger Rick's NatureScope is a creative education series dedicated to inspiring in children an understanding and appreciation of the natural world while developing the skills they will need to make responsible decisions about the environment. The topic of this issue is "Rain Forests: Tropical Treasures." Contents are organized into the…
Descriptors: Animals, Art Activities, Conservation (Environment), Culture
Braus, Judy, Ed. – NatureScope, 1987
Ranger Rick's NatureScope is a creative education series dedicated to inspiring in children an understanding and appreciation of the natural world while developing the skills they will need to make responsible decisions about the environment. The topic of this issue is "Endangered Species: Wild and Rare." Contents are organized into the…
Descriptors: Animals, Art Activities, Conservation (Environment), Ecology
Braus, Judy, Ed. – NatureScope, 1988
Ranger Rick's NatureScope is a creative education series dedicated to inspiring in children an understanding and appreciation of the natural world while developing the skills they will need to make responsible decisions about the environment. The topic of this issue is "Wild & Crafty." It contains a variety of craft ideas related to…
Descriptors: Animals, Childrens Art, Elementary Education, Environment
Cavanaugh, Lisa M. – Insights into Open Education, 1995
The use of multicultural literature in the classroom can play a significant part in the learning and acceptance process of students. Multicultural books should be brought into the classroom to enhance textbook materials in all subject matters. To implement a multicultural program in the classroom, teachers must become knowledgeable about the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Environment, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education
Roueche, Suanne D. – Innovation Abstracts, 1983
The popular notion that excellence in sports is inherited is seriously questioned by experts. The belief shared by many sports specialists as well as by some top athletes is that the characteristics that breed success in sports are developed. Sports experts offer the following advice to those who wish to improve their own performance: (1) relax;…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Ability, Achievement, Athletes
Duke, Daniel L., Ed. – Spotlight on New Learning Environments: A Journal of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Educational Design at the University of Virginia, 1998
A two-issue volume presents articles describing innovative schools, classrooms, and alternative learning arrangements found in some of today's schools. Issue one contains three articles offering glimpses of an elementary school committed to the Core Knowledge curriculum of E. D. Hirsch, a renovated school devoted to early childhood learning…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Core Curriculum, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedKittlaus, Jennifer, Ed.; Bliss, Pam, Ed. – Insights on Law & Society, 2001
This magazine aims to help high school teachers of civics, government, history, law, and law-related education program developers educate students about legal issues. This issue focuses on religious freedom in the United States. It contains 11 articles: (1) "Government-Religion Relations in Historical Perspective" (C. Cookson) discusses…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Court Litigation, Debate, Educational Vouchers
Gage, Susan – Teachergram, 1989
This newsletter discusses the disappearance of the world's forests and the resulting environmental problems of erosion and flooding; loss of genetic diversity; climatic changes such as less rainfall, and intensifying of the greenhouse effect; and displacement and destruction of indigenous cultures. The articles, lessons, and activities are…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Ecological Factors, Ecology, Elementary Education
de Nys, Mary; Wolfe, Leslie R. – 1985
During the past twenty years, important efforts to ensure educational equity for girls have brought about major changes in our schools; yet subtle sex discrimination still pervades many of our classrooms. In the elementary schools girls still are perceived more favorably than boys, disciplined less harshly, and graded more generously than boys;…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Females
Teachergram, 1987
Designed for the senior secondary level, these activities and articles explore critical issues between the environment and development. Two causes of environmental degradation are wasteful affluence and desperate poverty. The problems with development and the environment addresses Canadian and global situations. An article presents three…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Gaffney, Maureen, Ed. – Young Viewers Magazine, 1981
Children's emotional responses to films are the focus of the four articles in this issue designed for media specialists and educators. Following an editorial discussing the responsibilities of media as put forth by Bruno Bettleheim, the first article presents a methodology and rationale for using story films to encourage children's exploration of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Emotional Experience
