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...MOFFETT'S alternative curriculum is based on the belief that a child can learn most and best when he is allowed to follow his own needs. He should do what he wants, not what he has to do. Moffett believes verbalthinking and self-expression are natural desires which a student will satisfy if he is given the opportunity to do so. They should be encouraged, not stifled by demands to classify and repeat what other people say, in the first four grades of school. Even if a child can successfully complete the assigned language exercises, his language ability...
...student's first language activity in Moffett's curriculum is non-verbal dramatic action. The child "limbers" his body and expresses free associations of feelings and impulses in solitary play with toys and in movement to music. Pantomime, substituting the stimulation of an idea for music or a toy, is the first mode in which a student attempts to converse with another. After choral pantomime Moffett proposes organizing students in small groups, six or less in each, to enact short scenes from stories for their own group and eventually for the whole class. Verbal dramatic activity naturally evolves as students...
...discovered a treasure buried in the ground. Other members of her group ran to her; one boy answered, "I picked it up." The other members of the group insisted it would be best to split it up among everyone. The girl agreed, but still added, "I get the most." Moffett advocates the formation of small groups of students like this to read, discuss and improvise among themselves. The desire to interact with peers provides the motivation to increased verbal ability and solve language problems. It also continually tests the effectiveness of a student's expression; if he is successful...
...physicists are busy with their investigations, other scientists will be on an even more exciting quest. Biochemists will be examining the specimens for evidence of amino acids and protein molecules?the building blocks of life. Paleontologists will seek fossil remnants of organisms. At NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., still other investigators will try to coax life itself from the lunar rocks, using nutrients in the hope of resuming a life process that might have been interrupted millions of years...
...used in delicate eye operations. He wondered if the same process might not be used to force the bullet fragment within Barrios' brain into a safe spot in the soft tissue surrounding the upper ventricle. Lippe took the problem to NASA's nearby Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, where tests were made by whirling a bullet fragment through gelatin of approximately the brain's consistency. Researchers decided that the idea was worth...