Intergenerating activities and aging appreciation of elementary school children

The concept of intergenerating was examined through the introduction of agi ng appreciation activities in five elementary classrooms in the same school . A week-long module was developed to determine if aging appreciation would be enhanced by the module used in the selected elementary classrooms. Stud ents completed introductory and final questionnaires before and after prese ntation of the module, respectively. Descriptive statistics were used to de scribe the general nature of the participating groups, and t tests were com puted to determine differences between pretest and posttest means and to de termine interclassroom variations. Possibilities for future research are di scussed.