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Download full textHudson River Center for Program Development, Glenmont, NY. – 1993
This teaching guide is part of a series of materials developed, with input from adult learners, to aid adult literacy teachers in incorporating health education into the curriculum. This guide aims to help teachers to provide adult students with information about good fitness habits and positive health behaviors that will substantially reduce the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Classroom Techniques, Exercise
Peer reviewedKelly, Joseph T. – Social Studies, 1984
Secondary students pretend to be members of a committee studying proposals for a new U.S. constitution. They are given a list of 24 constitutional civil rights, taken from the U.S. and Soviet constitutions, and asked to select the 12 they like best. Discussion and analysis follow the selection process. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Concept Teaching, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law
Peer reviewedReid, Bob – Mathematics Teacher, 1989
Relationships among the sides are developed for right triangles whose sides are in the ratios 1:3, 1:4, and 1:5. The golden ratio appears in the results which can be used in secondary mathematics. (DC)
Descriptors: Algebra, Discovery Learning, Geometric Concepts, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedCampanella, Alfred J., Ed. – Social Education, 1984
A compilation of nine social studies activities suitable for immediate application in the classroom includes teaching ideas for middle school, secondary school, and college teachers. Activities include the use of (1) geographic skills to understand the use of solar radiation and available wind power, (2) questions to help students understand…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Civil Liberties, Critical Thinking, Experiential Learning
Kern County Superintendent of Schools, Bakersfield, Ca. Div. of Instructional Services. – 1980
One of a series of activity guides, this publication offers a variety of learning activities and resource materials to help teachers and students celebrate special days and events in autumn. The activities and resources are especially designed to develop communications skills of students in grades 4-8; however, they are easily transferable to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Hendon, Sarah, Ed.; And Others – 1995
This guide contains the materials required to teach a 36-hour program of competency-based instruction designed to meet the needs of teen single parents who require additional skill building before entering the job market or a job training program. The course is divided into 4 learning modules that cover 18 competencies as follows: taking…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Child Rearing, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills
Peer reviewedMathematics Teacher, 1991
Presented is a teacher's guide for a hands-on activity challenging students to develop problem-solving behaviors by exploring the construction of a right-cylinder of maximum volume from an m x n sheet of metal. Reproducible worksheets leading students through the activity are provided. (MDH)
Descriptors: Algebra, Discovery Learning, Geometry, Group Activities
Williams, Monica – 2002
For one middle school teacher, the "functional grammar" approach to narrative writing promised to offer students explicit instruction in how to structure a narrative text to build up suspense, and it could give focus to the types of descriptive language that further engage readers. Her classroom research was built on the teacher…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Class Activities, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Olson, Mary Ann, Ed.; Baer, Teddi, Ed. – The Idea Factory, 1984
Intended for writing teachers, the activities in this issue blend right/left brain lessons--kinesthetic, spatial, and playful--to provide students with prewriting experience. The activities include the following: (1) creativity olympics, such as finding criteria by which large groups of students may subdivide themselves into successively smaller…
Descriptors: Creativity, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities, Middle Schools
