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Peer reviewedRichbart, Carolyn M.; Richbart, Lynn A. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1995
Addresses NCTM recommendations regarding nonroutine problem solving. Illustrates general approaches, teacher discourse, and aims of problem solving via three nonroutine problems. Compares expert and novice approaches to problem solving and applies procedures endorsed by Polya regarding problem-solving strategies. Includes nine additional…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Heuristics, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Burns, Marilyn; Winson, Beth – Instructor, 1992
Primary students can learn about computation and estimation by reading a story about the use of money, then following up with estimation and calculation activities. Intermediate students can explore the relationship between addition and multiplication using a computation game, collaborating on when, how, and why they use addition and…
Descriptors: Addition, Class Activities, Computation, Cooperative Learning
Hanlin, Jayne Ilene – Learning, 1992
A fifth grade teacher describes how by reading classic literature aloud to her students each day, she helped them along the road to literature-based learning. She discusses the advantages of the whole-language approach. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classical Literature, Intermediate Grades, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedHandley, Leslie Mills, Ed. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1990
Describes ways to integrate geography into the curriculum of primary and intermediate grades. Suggests hands-on activities for teaching abstract concepts through concrete experiences. Includes two units: creating a global map of the earth and incorporating social studies into language arts and mathematics by using magnet cars on maps. (NL)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Teaching, Elementary Education, Geographic Concepts
Peer reviewedAmmon, Richard – ALAN Review, 1993
Describes a unit taught in two middle school English classes, in which students wrote and illustrated their own adventure/journey folktales. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Folk Culture, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedShea, Mary E. – New Advocate, 1998
Offers a classroom vignette that describes how the author invites students to collect pearls of wisdom (memorable quotations in books) as a source of inspiration. Offers an example of such a quote that stimulated rich discussion in a sixth-grade classroom. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Coping, English Instruction
Peer reviewedJennings, Louise B.; Pattenaude, Irene – New Advocate, 1998
Describes a study of tolerance (in a fifth-grade bilingual classroom) organized around literature about the Holocaust. Identifies specific classroom practices that enabled students to interact with texts and to construct and revise meanings of tolerance. Traces steps taken by one student, Matthew, as he moved from limited responses to a proactive…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Grade 5
Peer reviewedFlint, Amy Seely – Language Arts, 2000
Examines the discrepancies in engagement that arose when the teachers' instructional and the students' personal stances (regarding the intents and purposes of literacy) are misaligned during literacy events. Discusses the ways in which instructional and personal stances encourage and/or discourage engagement. Considers the opportunity to construct…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Grade 4, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedHaddox, Gretchen – English Journal, 1998
Shows how teaching grammar through writing can be a successful strategy. Points out the steps one teacher used in teaching a writing and grammar process with her sixth graders and illustrates its effectiveness, both with one high-risk student and also through a school disruption caused by fire. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 6, Grammar, High Risk Students
Download full textWithington, Janice J. – 1996
Aimed at helping students in grades 5-8 read and enjoy more varieties of literature as well as promoting more writing, this guide offers materials which use a thematic approach to reading, writing, and literature. The guide provides reproducible and hands-on activity ideas plus bibliographies for the genres of realistic fiction, animal tales,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on sentence skills, and offers 30 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, to help students write simple, compound, and complex sentences. The…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Figurative Language, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on notetaking and outlining skills, and offers 25 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, which give students practical experience in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Notetaking
Roe, Richard L., Ed. – 1987
Mock trials help students gain a basic understanding of the legal mechanism through which society chooses to resolve many of its disputes. While learning the details of trial process and procedures, students also develop a number of critical skills that are universally necessary: (1) critical analysis of problems; (2) strategic thinking; (3)…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Class Activities, Courts, Critical Thinking
North Carolina State Dept. of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, Raleigh. Div. of Parks and Recreation. – 1994
This curriculum guide was developed to provide environmental education through a series of hands-on activities for the classroom and the outdoor setting of Goose Creek State Park, North Carolina. This activity packet, designed for the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades, meets established curriculum objectives of the North Carolina Department of Public…
Descriptors: Activities, Class Activities, Ecology, Environmental Education
North Carolina State Dept. of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, Raleigh. Div. of Parks and Recreation. – 1994
This curriculum guide was developed to provide environmental education through a series of hands-on activities for the classroom and the outdoor setting of Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, North Carolina. This activity packet, designed for grades 5 and 6, meets established curriculum objectives of the North Carolina Department of Public…
Descriptors: Activities, Botany, Class Activities, Classification
