Explains how to implement cooperative learning in the classroom and reasons for doing so. The process involves students working in pairs or small groups to achieve a common goal with the teacher monitoring group activity. Concludes that cooperative learning promotes the academic, social, and emotional growth of students. (DMM)

Describes the learning center at Mary Our Queen Elementary School in Omaha, which grew out of the need to compensate for overcrowded classrooms. (MB)

Offers suggestions for setting up, managing, and operating mini learning centers in the classroom using materials already on hand to provide necessary reinforcement, expansion, and enrichment of previously introduced concepts. (DMM)

Argues that the use of nature literature in science, history, religion, geography, etc., classrooms can sharpen students' observation skills, help students learn to value the world around them, and introduce environmental issues such as man's threats to nature. Describes sample activities. (DMM)