Discussion explores values that ought to be taught to young children in the public schools. Attention is first given to what values are appropriate to teach to children at different ages and appropriate contexts of value learning. Several classroom incidents are offered as examples. Arguments developed in the discussion conclude that schools…

A study was conducted in which negative affective states were induced in children by one of several different types of cognition or experience. Subjects were 150 second-grade children, evenly divided by sex, from suburban elementary schools. In particular, cognitive induction procedures involved children's thinking about negative events that might…

Intended to give teachers usable information and prepared materials that are ready-to-reproduce for students, this book compiles research, tips, and teaching ideas into a sourcebook on teaching and producing William Shakespeare's plays in the elementary classroom. It is designed to bring the student into an awareness of Shakespeare's art and…

Intended for use by elementary school teachers as a supplement to the book, "Elementary, My Dear Shakespeare," or for use by itself to produce one Shakespeare play, this play packet contains ready-to-reproduce materials for the production of "The Taming of the Shrew." Materials include: staging suggestions for scenery, props,…

Intended for use by elementary school teachers as a supplement to the book, "Elementary, My Dear Shakespeare," or for use by itself to produce a Shakespeare play, this play packet contains ready-to-reproduce materials for the production of "Romeo and Juliet." Materials include: staging suggestions for scenery, props, lighting,…

Intended for use by elementary school teachers as a supplement to the book, "Elementary, My Dear Shakespeare," or for use by itself to produce one Shakespeare play, this play packet contains ready-to-reproduce materials for the production of "Macbeth." Materials include: staging suggestions for scenery, props, lighting, and…

A series of studies was conducted to determine whether children's reasoning is capacity-limited and whether any such capacity, if it exists, is based on the working memory system. An N-term series (transitive inference) was used as the primary task in an interference paradigm. A concurrent short-term memory load was employed as the secondary task.…

The perceptual set and misinterpretation hypotheses about children's errors on the class inclusion problem were examined in two experiments involving first, second, and third grade children. Previous evidence in support of the hypotheses is presented. The results of the experiments do not support the previous evidence and hypotheses. (Author/SDH)

Social class differences in ability to communicate conditional information were investigated using 132 white, fifth-grade children of both lower and middle socioeconomic status. Results indicate communication, but not comprehension, problems exist for lower SES students. Implications of these findings are discussed. (Author/SDH)

Data from a study of teacher-bias and teacher-expectancy effects on elementary school students' achievement test performance are presented. Analysis of the data revealed that the teacher-bias manipulation had no effect and that the teacher-expectancy manipulation was strongly related to test performance. (Author/RC)

Discussed the influence of Boris the Brontosaurus on third grade students, who created him in an art project. (RK)

Using the theme of food as the focus of their art students created some "POP art". (RK)

Author discussed how a program for teaching legal concepts could be used with elementary students. (Editor/RK)

To determine whether the distraction effect associated with material rewards in discrimination learning can account for the superior performance of reward groups in probability learning, the performance of 144 school children (preschool, second, and fifth grades) on a two-choice successive discrimination task was compared under three reinforcement…