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Peer reviewedSilkebakken, Gail P.; Camp, Donna J. – Middle School Journal, 1993
Defines analogies, discusses the benefits of teaching students to create analogies, and presents a strategy for analogy instruction with numerous classroom applications. Using professionally prepared materials, teachers can help students engage in analogous thinking by analyzing different kinds of relationships, balancing terms, creating original…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Benefits, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
Peer reviewedDarlington, Sonja; Dake, Dennis – Middle School Journal, 1994
Describes a thematic, interdisciplinary, middle-school curriculum that integrates visual and language arts. Curriculum embodies three principles: (1) visual and verbal responses depend on meaningful interaction among the artist (writer), the art object (text), the viewer (reader), and the environment (context); (2) visual and verbal thinking are…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedKurtzberg, Richard L.; Kurtzberg, Kimberly E. – Middle School Journal, 1993
The Future Problem Solving process engages middle school students in real-world issues by creating a multidisciplinary "think tank" environment requiring them to apply both divergent (brainstorming, creativity, flexibility) and convergent (analysis, synthesis, evaluation) strategies to political problems. The process can accurately…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Interdisciplinary Approach, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
