Features nine ERIC documents on the use of role playing in learning situations. (PD)

Student activities were overlooked in the recent national reports on education indicating the possibility that they are not considered significant. Provides a seven-step agenda for ensuring that such programs retain their position in the schools. (MD)

After attending a lecture on misattribution in social reasoning, teachers were shown videotapes of children, whom they knew were acting out role of good and bad pupils. When asked to assess the children's real personalities and disregard the acted-out roles, the teachers still rated the "good" and "bad" pupils differently.…

A Social Skills Training Program at Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children provides assessment of interpersonal skills of blind children and adolescents. The three- to four-week training program consists of instructions, modeling, roleplaying, manual guidance, feedback, and positive reinforcement. (SEW)

Reviewed are subjective and objective means of determining how to teach children to think and act humanely. The methodology and findings of a study about empathy resulting from students' role-playing animals is reported. (DC)

Outlines a project in which elementary or secondary students plan and produce an imaginary television program. The activity is intended both to educate students about television and to improve their language skills. (SJL)

Examines research generated by use of role-playing in counseling. This review is limited to studies assessing the direct use of role-playing within counselor training programs, and to studies that use role-playing in treating special client concerns. Incorporation of role-playing will increase the counselor's repertoire of techniques. (Author/BEF)

Describes a fun game in which students act as electrons, protons, and neutrons. This activity is designed to help students develop a concrete understanding of the abstract concept of atomic structure. (DKM)

This article discusses the value of using fantasy and role playing games (FRPG) in the curriculum of gifted students. It lists ways that FRPG can supplement 26 academic subjects and develop 24 learning skills. Objections from religious groups to use of the games are addressed. Different types of games are compared. (CR)

Law-Related Education (LRE) is a curriculum for elementary through high school students that focuses on civil, criminal, and constitutional themes as they revolve around familiar topics. LRE programs teach objective facts through the immediacy of group process. In 1989-90, LRE was active in 43 states. (MLF)

Presents a role-playing activity designed to teach participants about the relationships between different members of an aquatic food chain. (WRM)

This article discusses how parents and educators can best help highly creative students when they need emotional support. Strategies include: encouraging creation of products, using creative visualization strategies, using role playing situations, providing support groups experiences, and using direct instruction to explain what may be going on…

The ways in which role playing and simulation can assist students to clarify their values and to develop more adequate values is described. (DE)

Two games are presented which demonstrate the complexity of the hazardous waste problem through an introduction to the: (1) economics of waste disposal; (2) legislation surrounding waste disposal; (3) necessity to handle wastes with care; (4) damages to the environmental and human health resulting from improper disposal; (5) correct ways to…

This siting game is based on the assumption that students will become involved in research required to determine the need for a power plant. Once the need is established, students must determine the location and type of plant to be built. There are brief character sketches which describe the key actors in the simulation. It is suggested that…