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ERIC Number: EJ617856
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
A Hands-On Approach To Understanding the Brain.
Walsh, Pat
Educational Leadership, v58 n3 p76-78 Nov 2000
An instructional media professor discovered that using his hands and asking students to imitate his words and movements communicates (via varied learning styles) certain ideas about the brain. Learning is enhanced by a nonthreatening environment, guiding procedures, appropriate facility design, cooperative learning, and multiple ways of knowing. (Contains 13 references.) (MLH)
Descriptors: Brain, Discovery Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Manipulative Materials, Theory Practice Relationship
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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