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Clary, Kim M. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2006
This article describes a hands-on activity in which students convert decimals to fractions, measure, make scale drawings, use algebraic formulas, and use visualization to construct a three-dimensional physical model of a portion of the seafloor. In the process, they learn about sound, speed, and ocean exploration. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Algebra, Models, Experiential Learning, Mathematics Activities
Meeker, Michael W. – 1983
Adapting strategies of invention from the new process-oriented rhetoric, the literature teacher can help students understand what they read through prereading exercises. Presenting students with an abstract model of a text's metaphoric structure, the teacher can spark students' immediate and imaginative response to the model, involving them…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Diagrams, Discovery Processes, English Instruction
Simpson, Timothy J. – 1995
This paper examines the dual coding hypothesis, a model of the coding of visual and textual information, from the perspective of a mass media professional, such as a teacher, interested in accurately presenting both visual and textual material to a mass audience (i.e., students). It offers an extension to the theory, based upon the various skill…
Descriptors: Coding, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Information Processing
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Rogow, Sally M. – RE:view, 1992
The development of visual perception skills in children with partial vision as well as developmental disabilities is considered. A model of visual learning is offered which incorporates the role of visual experience, movement, and visual learning. Specific teaching suggestions for developing visual attention and visual search skills are offered.…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Learning Activities, Models, Multiple Disabilities
Suhor, Charles – 1983
Prepared as part of a series applying recent research in oral and written communication instruction to classroom practice, this booklet discusses three visual models of teaching written composition. The first section of the booklet discusses the content area model, which begins with an abstraction presented to students (definitions of parts of…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1983
This curriculum guide, one of 15 volumes written for field test use with educationally disadvantaged industrial education students needing additional instruction in the basic skill areas, deals with helping students develop basic verbal and visual communication skills while studying metalworking. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Communication Skills