The use of slides can economically develop visual awareness and filmmaking skills. (JH)

In British primary schools reading and language skills are taught requiring the active involvement of the children in such activities as camping trips which result in student developed reading and writing materials. (JH)

After studying the metric system, a fifth-grade class produced an assembly program to introduce the students in primary grades to metric measurements; they also compiled metric handbooks for other teachers in the school. (SD)

Film making as a means of exposing public school students to the power of visual language. (Author)

A student-produced slide-tape show on a local author was a valuable exercise in both historical research and creativity. (JH)

Describes a "feedback course" offered at Brown University, in which undergraduates redesigned the introductory organic chemistry laboratory. The students specified objectives for the ideal lab, then devised laboratory experiments. Laboratory safety was stressed, all dangerous reagents and solvents were eliminated, and toxicological data were…

A program designed for those students with varied skills, talents, and abilities who feel the present courses of study are not meeting their needs, the Communication Arts Curriculum is based on an approach to learning in which each student selects his or her own learning activity, assembles the resources, and participates in personal evaluation.…

The teaching guide for distributive education, grade levels 11 and 12, was developed by distributive education majors at Delaware State College. It contains five lesson plans for each of the instructional areas of: (1) the functions of marketing and distribution, (2) fundamental skills, (3) product or service technology, (4) social skills and…

Freshman composition calls for a teaching technique in which the content of the course is primarily student-created materials. Since by definition a writer is one who writes, a freshman writing course should simulate the professional writing process and also provide an outlet for the product. The steps in the writing process are psychological…

Financial problems may be beneficial to certain learning situations because they may provide the teachable moment for educators to gain deeper understandings of alternative curricular practices, such as more extensive use of local resources to provide inexpensive but meaningful learning experiences. Educators must encourage and help students to…

This semester-length guide for high school distributive education students is geared to start the student thinking about the vocation he would like to enter by exploring one area of interest in marketing and distribution and then presenting the results in a research paper known as an area of distribution manual. The first 25 pages of this document…