activity programs in education

A teacher's guide of various materials and strategies to enrich elementary programs.

Explains how teachers and children can become familiar with classic literature by using the narrative-mime approach.

Provides directions for more than seventy multicultural craft activities, including papermaking, shadow puppets, corn husk dolls, tin-can art, and more.

Presents classroom-related activities and projects for children, as well as ideas for homemade gifts and crafts.

Presents a rationale for using the arts to teach social studies, describes lessons based on the theater, drawing and cartooning, commercials, media, writing and literature, music, and hands-on projects, and includes three lessons designed to encourage students to think about the nature of history.

Contains a collection of over two hundred games and activities designed to meet the objectives of health education for grades four through twelve and covers topics such as physical fitness, substance abuse, human growth and development, and health-related careers.

Provides guidance for finding effective materials, structured projects, and reproducible lesson ideas to explore alternative teaching.

Presents 112 science experiments for hands-on learning activities.

Contains recipes and formulas that may be used to enhance the learning experiences of students in kindergarten through sixth grade, offering ideas for exploring the past, nature, and science through clays and doughs, salt map mixtures, papier-mache, natural dyes, bubble solutions, and other substances.