A method for teaching elementary school children that man must not waste the world's resources if he is to maintain his comfortable place in the world's environment. (RB)

Tells of an elementary school's first encounter with outdoor education and the subsequent development of a nature trial where all subjects are taught. (DR)

How the use of plywood scraps became the basis of a creative art project. (RB)

Describes a pilot project designed to develop a textbook to help teach sixth graders develop positive attitudes towards the law, the community, and themselves. (RB)

Activities that are part of an elementary school science study unit on snakes, spiders, earthworms, snails, caterpillars, and crocodiles are described. (CJ)

Presents elementary reading and mathematics activities, plus a trivia quiz, about baseball. (SJL)

Presented are brief descriptions of the winning entries in this magazine's contest for existing programs to serve as prototypes for wide-scale use in elementary schools of the 1980s. Top prizes went to computer literacy, energy education, and nutrition projects. Twenty runners-up are also described. Project addresses are included. (SJL)

Describes a system utilizing numbered chips to teach middle graders to manipulate positive and negative integers. (SJL)

Presents 33 interdisciplinary activities for enhancing a classroom unit on the ocean. Selected learning resources are listed. (Editor/SJL)

Discusses classroom discipline and presents suggestions on how teachers can become more assertive in their classrooms. (CM)

Economics projects, for all levels, that feature in-the-classroom factories and stores, fund raising to save a cat, and the formation of a corporation. The kids even took out a loan to get started. And they're all designed to earn a lot of learning on the bottom line. (Editor)

Describes some of the poems and methods from a Writers in the School program as part of a primary education poetry program that intends to stimulate students to read and write poetry. (Author/RK)