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Problem-solvingstudents surest early energy education
By Gordon Johnson
See Jack run.
Run Jack run.
Run run.
See Jack run to turn out the light.
Energy conservation taught starting at a
young age was one solution a group of high
school students gave to the problem of
how to cope with dwindling energy suppl
ies. Students from fifteen states and Omaha
participated in the Future Problem Solving
Bowl in Lincoln April 18 to April 21.
The problem solving bowl is an exten
sion of a curriculum, which is offered many
gifted and talented children throughout the
United States and some half-dozen foreign
countries, said Paul Torrance of the Uni
versity of Georgia, founder of the program.
Cecil Reynolds, assistant professor of
educational psychology at UNL said the
program was founded as a curriculum for
gifted children.
Three groups
"The idea here is to teach children how
to be creative problem solvers," Reynolds
said. The children's ages range from grade
school age to high school and are divided
up into three groups: senior, intermediate
andjunior.
Each age group is given a different prob
lem to work on, which is geared toward
their educational level. The students know
before the contest that their problem will
cover energy (senior problem), or the bal
ance of trade, (intermediate problem), but
not exactly what the problem will be and
what specific area it will cover.
When the students get to the bowl, they
are given an hour and a half to come up
with a solution to the specific problem and
present it in written form. The students are
then given an hour to think of a convinc
ing, creative way to present their idea on
stage before the other contestants in five
minutes.
Torrance said the competition is not the
most important part of future problem
solving, and that the program has a basic
educational goal.
Geared to future
"The basic educational goal is to help
young people develop and broaden their
image of the future," Torrance explained.
The curriculum in the schools is geared
to allow the students to study future prob
lems and to learn problem-solving skills,
Torrance said.
Research has shown through the years,
he said, that gifted children have not
developed problem-solving skills. Some of
these skills include teamwork, he said.
Gifted or ulented children do not work
well with others, he said, so one thrust of
the program is to teach gifted children to
work with others.
Torrance divided the study of problem
solving into five main areas. They are:
-Problem solving skills.
-Team work.
-Study of the future.
-Interdisciplinary thinking, or how to
combine rules and concepts from all areas
to help solve problems.
The culmination of the previous four.
Students are taught to come up with a real
istic alternative solution.
To get their point across to the audi
ence, some students used puppets, others
used songs and rhymes, and still others
presented their answer in a speech-type
format.
The judges of the competition looked
for an original solution, a clever or un
usual presentation, persuasivness of the
presentation, and the possibility of the
idea's success. .
The Bowl was sponsored by the Nebra
ska Department of Education, Nebraska
Association for the Gifted and the UNL
Special Education Department.
Activities planned for parents
Parents of UNL students will have a
chance to see college life at its best this
weekend when the parents will be guests
on campus.
Parent's Weekend, .according to UNL
Chancellor Roy Young, is designed to show
parents UNL programs, facilities, faculty
and activities which comprise their son's
or daughter's academic environment.
Each college is planning special pro
grams and activities of interest for the
parents according to the chairman of the
Parent's Weekend and the Director of
Admissions, Al Papik.
Papik said parents will be allowed to
tour each college that interests them, and
can attend several special programs planned
by students and the student government.
ASUN, Papik said, will sponsor panel
discussions on both days of parents week
end at which students will present their
views of the university.
Earlier in the semester, ASUN voiced
a concern that Parents Weekend will only
show the good things about the university.
They also criticized Parent's Weekend be
cause of a lack of student input into the
selection and planning of the weekend.
However, Papik assured ASUN that
students were involved in planning Parent's
Weekend. Representatives from each of the
10 colleges, students and various admin
istrative units were involved, he said.
Other highlights of Parent's Weekend
will be UNL annual Honors Day Convo
cation on Friday, and the Ivy Day cele
bration on Saturday. There will also be
numerous concerts, performances of a
University Theatre play, athletic demon
strations, and a Comhusker football scrim
mage Saturday afternoon in Memorial
Stadium.
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