Offers seven guidelines to follow when submitting student work for publication. Lists and discusses magazines for children. (RL)

Analyzes the weaknesses of student projects and suggests five ways to improve them. (RB)

Described is a summer program in which children designed museum exhibits based on their own research. (RM)

The Super3 research process equips students with their own set of handy tools so that they can take the most ordinary facts and transform them into amazing research projects. The second grade students have created Native American homes by applying the Super3 process and its tools such as graphic organizers, trash and treasure note taking, and the…

This school fair planning guide was developed to facilitate the organization of a school health fair as a creative, practical, and low-cost alternative for overcoming barriers to effective health education. It was developed to provide students with the opportunity to actively participate in a wide variety of health-enhancing learning experiences,…

This article discusses how teachers can use project-based learning to teach social studies to gifted students. Because children select the topic, it is argued the inquiry is more meaningful to children. The roles of teachers and students in project-based classrooms are described, along with an elementary school's Japanese Exhibit project.…

Presents ideas for creating high-impact, low-cost, stimulating classroom displays. The article suggests arranging the environment to allow comfortable movement along with a pleasant, organized backdrop to teacher and student displays. Individual displays should not only share student work but extend and develop learning. Eight creative ideas are…

This book offers information and step-by-step instructions on establishing a publishing center in schools, churches, or community groups and includes reproducible forms. The book gives ideas for such a center, a joint effort between volunteers, students, and teachers, that lets children publish their stories in a professional looking manner. The…

Describes two multimedia projects at Brentwood Elementary School (Austin, Texas) that are models for training teachers, and students with special needs, about technology. Students authored a multimedia slide show and created HyperStudio stacks about Texas wildlife. The projects increased motivation and improved reading, writing, problem-solving,…

Describes two elementary social studies projects where a ClarisWorks database was used to teach database vocabulary and to teach students to develop and design a curriculum-related database. (AEF)

Describes a project in which engineering students wrote science books for children as part of a technical writing course focusing on how writers adapt to the audience. Discusses children's positive reactions to the books, and notes the engineering students' enthusiasm for the project. (MM)

Designed for elementary school teachers, this publication treats various aspects of publishing young student-authors' writing. Activities are as follows: (1) proofreading (children should proofread first by themselves); (2) pagination (let children decide how to break up the text); (3) placement of text (on alternate pages, for example, or perhaps…