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Wilson, Asia – Educational Perspectives, 2006
Role-play is one of the most engaging instruments for imagining what is not actually present. Role-play can take a variety of forms: student(s) enacting; teacher(s) enacting; and student(s) and teacher(s) enacting together. In this article, the author examines a number of different ways for teachers to incorporate role-play in their classrooms to…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Middle School Students, Elementary School Students, Imagination
McLester, Susan – Technology & Learning, 2005
The National Engineers Week Future City Competition provides compelling evidence of the power of pairing computer software and technology with traditional hands-on activities to teach challenging subject matter and also harder- to- measure "real" workplace skills. Now in its 13th year, the Competition asks middle school students to work in teams…
Descriptors: Transportation, Imagination, Educational Technology, Competition
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Mayes, Valynda; Hemenway, Mary Kay; Armosky, Brad J. – Science and Children, 2004
Thomas A. Edison said, "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." Well, the finalists in this year's Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Award Program had no shortage of imagination, but chose more useful items with which to work. With the goal to invent or modify a tool, students across the country were searching homes, yards, and…
Descriptors: Intellectual Property, Creativity, Imagination, Equipment
Panettieri, Joseph C. – Campus Technology, 2007
Across the globe, progressive universities are embracing any number of MUVEs (multi-user virtual environments), 3D environments, and "immersive" virtual reality tools. And within the next few months, several universities are expected to test so-called "telepresence" videoconferencing systems from Cisco Systems and other leading…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Computer Simulation, Educational Change, Virtual Classrooms
Franklin, Catherine – Bank Street College of Education, 2003
This essay provides a window into an eighth-grade class engaged in a legislative curriculum drama. The author, an eighth-grade social studies and literature teacher at a private New York City elementary school, describes her use of a legislative curriculum drama to make an eight-week study of the legislative branch of government a more dynamic and…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Grade 8, Imagination, Inquiry
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Baer, Allison L. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2005
In an effort to make reading more visible and find out what goes on in the minds of adolescent readers, the author led a group of seventh-grade students in creating Symbolic Reading Inventories. The students created "snapshot" scenes from the books they were reading and placed themselves, as readers, in or around the picture. Reading is a complex…
Descriptors: Reading Material Selection, Reading Instruction, Early Adolescents, Grade 7
Virginia Department of Education, 2006
The Theatre Arts Standards of Learning identify the essential content and skills required in the theatre arts curriculum for the middle school and core high school courses in Virginia's public schools. The standards are designed to be cumulative and progress in complexity by course from the middle school through the secondary level. Throughout…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Theater Arts, Course Content, Methods
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