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Learning to Act, Acting to Learn.

Piggins, Carol Ann – Learning, 1984

Children develop knowledge and insight into history when they act out dramatic events of the past. Creative dramatics serve as an impetus to further reading and research. Suggestions for teacher use in implementing role playing in the classroom are given. (DF)

Descriptors: Creative Dramatics, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education, History Instruction

The Sky Is the Limit.

Learning, 1994

Pullout pages provide suggestions for teaching elementary students at all levels about the wonders of human ingenuity. The suggestions help students see that great ideas come from the need to solve real-life problems and that one great idea leads to another, so current inventions help predict future inventions. (SM)

Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students