This handbook presents activities for teaching art appreciation to pre-school children. Based on the premise that young children learn primarily through the experience of handling and manipulating materials, child-size art postcards are indicated as a teaching tool. These postcards are readily adaptable to many different methods of displaying,…

Explains how teachers can use graphs and graphing concepts when teaching art, language arts, history, social studies, and science. Students can graph the lifespans of the Ninja Turtles' Renaissance namesakes (Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci) or world population growth. (MDM)

One of the most important tasks that teachers undertake is to teach concepts. Without a good understanding of concepts, students have difficulty even understanding the basics. Several approaches to teaching thinking have been analyzed and research concludes that it is more effective to teach thinking in the context of a subject rather than as a…