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National Fire Protection Week is a perfect time for launching a fire safety learning center. The activities described here are intended to help children recognize fire hazards in their homes, play areas and public buildings; learn how to act intelligently in fire emergencies; be able to share their knowledge of fire safety with others and understand the science of fire and fire fighting. (Author/RK)

Most children have visited a city even if they don't live in one. Build on your students' city experience through a learning center. Here are some activities that will help city children visualize the geographic location of their neighborhoods within the city while they learn language and math skills and about social studies and art activities. (Author/RK)

Providing opportunities for skill-building, creativity, and reading for content are major objectives of the "funny paper center." This multidisciplinary learning center uses comic strips as facilitators in the classroom. Suggestions are given for language arts, mathematics, science, social studies and art education. (Author/RK)

Many teachers have discovered the value of using newspapers in their classrooms. Suggests a number of specific, fun activities using this motivating and inexpensive resource. (Editor/RK)

It takes special skills to "read" math. Zero in on math symbols, vocabulary and comprehension with an activity/game center. (Editor)

Base a learning center on magic and the results will be magical. (Editor)

This month's article presents three reading skills reinforcement centers that will strengthen your individualized reading program and make it more flexible. (Editor)

Skills for living are not a frill. Kids learn basis and have fun with survival stations. (Editor)

The author taught in an open-space classroom at Argyle Junior High in Montgomery County, Maryland. Here is a candid look at the inner workings of a room without walls. (Editor/RK)

Create a variety of activities related to the country you are studying--Japan, for example--and arrange them by such subjects as art, games, creative writing, maps, dress and greetings. These activities can be tied in with classroom learning centers or stations. Here students make passports, learn about traditional styles of dress in Japan, learn to write haiku, a special kind of poetry, and discover Japanese calligraphy. (Author/RK)

Want to stimulate more interest in reading and writing? Then choose a favorite story or poem as the starting point for a colorful and varied learning center. Base your selection on your students' grade level and interests and gear your activities to the range of ability levels in your class. (Author/RK)

The wealth of brochures, booklets and lore available from historic sites can be used to create exciting learning stations. Centers filled with facts and artifacts of landmarks make local and area history come alive for students and individualize the social studies curriculum. (Author)

This article was designed to help teachers with ideas for classroom learning centers. Suggestions for making puppets were provided and students were given the opportunity to use their imagination and think creatively. (Editor/RK)

Plenty of subject choices make creative writing personal and successful. (Editor)

By exploring languages other than their own, children can learn important concepts about the nature of language. The center described here was designed to help a class of sixth graders understand that within their own structure languages assign meanings to symbols arbitrarily and to stimulate interest in the way languages operate. (Author)