This teacher's guide for the instruction of economic concepts at the seventh grade level uses Evansville's (Indiana) historical development to further the study of concepts such as economic needs and wants, factors of production, and opportunity cost. The first part of the guide, "Introducing Basic Economic Concepts," uses the text…

THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF TWO VERSIONS OF A SEVENTH-GRADE SCIENCE FILM. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO PRODUCE TWO VERSIONS OF A FILM, ONE OF WHICH CONTAINED INSERTED QUESTIONS, AND (2) TO COMPARE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE QUESTIONS IN DEVELOPING AN UNDERSTANDING OF CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTATION. ALL OF THE…

This paper describes the REAP (Reading, Enjoying, And Presenting) project, in which seventh-grade students enhance their reading ability and self-concept by preparing and presenting a reading performance at various child care and adult care facilities. The paper presents an illustration of what the research says about reading aloud; the completed…

A study examined the effects of a remediation program initiated at Chauncey Rose Middle School, Terre Haute, Indiana, during the 1996-97 school year. After the ISTEP test was administered to the sixth-grade class, a pull-out program for remediation was started the following year using grant monies. Subjects were 14 sixth graders, selected because…