GRADES OR AGES: Grades 4, 5, and 6. SUBJECT MATTER: Music. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The introductory section contains material on the purpose, general objectives, and organization of the program; recommendations for the classroom vocal program, the classroom instrumental program, the classroom music listening program, and the…

The dimensionality of the construct of original thinking was studied using measures designed to control for confounding of the construct by fluency and by task ambiguity. The subjects were 315 gifted children in grades 4-6. Original thinking was conceptually distinguished from general intelligence, but evidence for a concept of general originality…

Presents a lesson on John F. Peto's 1904/1906 painting "A Closet Door." The lesson is intended to introduce students in grades four through six to still life painting. (JDH)

The acquisition of aggressive responses may likely be a function of the environment's copious provision of imitative models. (Author)

Results of a questionnaire survey of 1137 fourth, fifth and sixth grade students comparing the attitudes of students in team teaching and those in self-contained classes. Questions measure attitudes of students' social-self, interest in school, school achievement, teachers, and responsibility. (Author/AJ)

Describes a 1995-96 CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) controlled study conducted in seven major U.S. cities that measured the effects of online usage (via Internet and Scholastic Network) on student learning. Results show that online use can increase student performance. Students in experimental classes produced better results on a…

Provides a lesson to familiarize students in grades four-six with the many ways that artists use the technique of collage. Students observe and discuss ways artists make use of materials other than paint on canvas. Examines how the introduction of foreign materials to a surface affects the illusion of space. (LS)

Evaluates the relative importance of graphic and contextual information in word recognition, as well as the relative importance of several specific sources of contextual information (lexical, semantic, syntactic, discourse) among second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade students. Finds that students use more graphic than contextual information at target…

Examined expressions of spatial knowledge of first-, fourth-, and sixth-grade children who performed model construction, verbal description, and route reversal tasks after mastering a pedestrian maze. Age-related differences were found in rate of learning the maze, and equivalent abilities in sequencing intersections and route reversal. (SAK)

Examines three alternative explanations that attribute children's superior recall of television news to (1) underutilization of the print medium; (2) a recall advantage of listening compared with reading; and (3) imperfect reading ability. Finds that the television presentation was remembered better than any of the other versions, consistent with…

Background: The participant role approach represents a view of bullying as a group process in which bystanders often encourage the bullying or silently witness it, while little support is given to the victim (e.g. Salmivalli, Lagerspetz, Bjorkqvist, Osterman, & Kaukiainen, 1996). There is a discrepancy between students' attitudes (which are…

A dynamic cascade model of development of serious adolescent violence was proposed and tested through prospective inquiry with 754 children (50% male; 43% African American) from 27 schools at 4 geographic sites followed annually from kindergarten through Grade 11 (ages 5-18). Self, parent, teacher, peer, observer, and administrative reports…

This research was based on the conceptual framework that students' low mathematics achievement in school is related to their poor study habits. Thus, the intervention titled "Mathematics Self-Regulated Learning Program" aimed to help selected children from Southeast Asia (the Philippines) improve their Mathematics achievement,…