Describes a program that attempted to increase sensory awareness and thus to improve attitudes toward poetry and inspire students to write their own poems. (JM)

Discusses the integration of various learning activities in preschool children's study of trees. Activities include taking field trips to wooded areas, exploring the ways people use wood, studying one particular tree, and doing art projects. (BC)

Counselling with nature (CWN) is an approach based on the law of nature by which everything seeks to survive, to grow, and to be interconnected. CWN incorporates outdoor sensory activities, allowing individuals to use their 53 natural senses (stifled by our predominantly indoor lives) to reconnect to the natural environment. (KS)

Considers how to adapt the design of distance education to students' cognitive styles. Discusses cognitive styles, including field dependence versus independence, holistic-analytic, sensory preference, hemispheric preferences, and Kolb's Learning Style Model; and the characteristics of distance education, including technology. (Contains 92…

Suggests that despite culturally induced aversions, aromas do have a role to play in writing instruction. Suggest there are many examples in literature of authors' treatment of the olfactory sense. Argues that emphasizing smell as a writing stimulant and encouraging olfactory analyses of literary works can serve as valid ways of introducing…

One of the most challenging concepts for preservice and experienced art teachers is to comprehend the difference between aesthetics and art criticism. In this article, the author discusses aesthetics from a historical perspective and reflects on how it can be defined and used in the art classroom. Gardner's (1983) intrapersonal and interpersonal…

This article argues that the Montessori method can be recast as a viable contemporary, constructivist programme for early childhood education. Montessori believed that children in the crucial years from birth to age six possess extraordinary, innate mental powers to "absorb" the environment. This view was typical of the now outdated zeitgeist…

A program designed to make visual art more accessible to young people in 24 elementary schools in Ohio is described. The program's concept was to engage all five senses, not just sight, in the appreciation of art. (RM)

This paper explores the ways in which "crafting" experiences shape our relationship to and understanding of the natural world. Crafting is defined as the process of making an item that is useful and aesthetically pleasing. Crafting not only involves some handiwork, but it also has the potential for encouraging environmental awareness.…

Describes the teaching of a preschool and kindergarten nutrition curriculum that used sensory experiences stressing guided discovery with a variety of real foods. (SL)

The arts are advocated not because they help children learn basic skills, but because the skills that are developed through the arts are basic to the complete growth of every human being. (Author/IRT)

Writing an environmental autobiography is an opportunity for students to reflect on the ways that their relationship to nature is constructed through experiences with such things as food, music, particular places, the outdoors, or acts of creativity. A collection of passages is presented that led to environmental autobiographies in an…

A teacher of a multiage K-1 class in Juneau (Alaska) weaves art and music throughout her lesson plans. She uses broad creative themes to teach the concepts and skills of the primary grades, and finds support in Alaska's content standards, which affirm that study of the arts is essential to a basic education. (TD)

The Ohio State University artist-in-the-schools program was developed to introduce ideas about dance as an art form. Dance experiences allow the child to view the aesthetic dimension of movement and heighten kinesthetic awareness and bodily intelligence. (DF)

A program model for use in gifted classrooms focuses on achieving altered states of consciousnes in order to further develop the natural talents of children. (PHR)