This article discusses using student products to facilitate a strong link between gifted education and the community to secure support and increase understanding for the necessity of stimulating and enriching our nation's exceptional children. Guidelines for displaying products and for presenting products to authentic audiences are provided.…

Erick Gordon, founding director of the Student Press Initiative, illustrates collaborations with teachers and students that have motivated students to invest themselves in the process and product of writing, including research, oral history, revision, and an immersion in and commitment to community.

The experiences of one industrial arts (IA) program, which utilized students in many capacities in making instructional videotapes, are recounted; three important items of equipment are discussed, and several ways of using videotape in various areas of an IA program are described. (AJ)

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,…

How economics can be taught through a student-developed textbook is described. Having secondary students construct their own economics textbook can be an exciting process. During the initial six- or nine-week segment of a course, materials can be collected and organized to make a book that the class can study for the rest of the semester or year.…

The Creative Marketing Project is a group study in marketing for distributive education students, designed to take up at least one semester. The document uses a project developed by students in the distributive education department of the Marion-Mullins Vocational Education Center, entitled "The Shopping Story, Mullins, S.C.," to provide…

Presents sixteen project notes developed by pupils of Chipping Norton School and Bristol Grammar School, in the United Kingdom. These Projects include eight biology A-level projects and eight Chemistry A-level projects. (HM)

The Redbank Regional High School in New Jersey has a color television studio equipped with cameras and other production equipment. Students have made mock commercials and films about career exploration and fire prevention. As they make the films, students develop and practice their reading, writing, speaking, and organizational skills and learn to…

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…

Describes presentations at Appalachian Regional Commission's (ARC) 25th anniversary conference, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 1990. Conference focused on youth leadership. More than 100 youth from 13 states attended, presenting 16 ARC-funded demonstration projects, including recreation programs, leadership development, theater…

Development of the Student Product Assessment Form to evaluate formally the products of students in gifted and talented education programs is described. Results from content validation procedures, reliability tests, scoring, and interrater agreement indicate that the assessment tool is both reliable and valid. (Author/JDD)

Describes a successful project in which ninth grade remedial reading students designed, wrote, and illustrated a Student Orientation Handbook for their high school. (SR)

Examines innovative ways for school libraries to collect organize, and make effective use of student work. Highlights include recognizing original work; student writing; student posters of favorite books or characters; databases for organizing information; videotaping of students' activities and presentations; electronic products; events;…