Reprinted from a book of children's photographs, "The Way It Is, edited by John Holland. Part of a series of articles entitled "Environment and the Child.

Guidelines are presented that will enable teachers to help students complete each step in a group project successfully. Guidelines are discussed for selecting the project, setting goals, planning procedures, choosing tasks, finding sources and resources, setting time limits, activity action, project completion, and evaluation. (SR)

Students in grades six through 12 in 40 states are participating annually in a History Day competition. Rules for the 1983 contest are briefly described. (AM)

The zoetrope, ancestor of the motion picture, is a spinning cylinder in which a strip of drawings take on movement. This article provides instructions for building this device and outlines an animation project for third- through seventh-graders. (SJL)

Describes a program at Stone Middle School in Melbourne, Florida. (JM)

The author describes how the project concept forms the basis for total instructional modules in many vocational programs. (HD)

A project-based curriculum should meet criteria for authenticity, academic rigor, applied learning, active exploration, adult relationships, and assessment practices. Students should be taught a systematic project-planning process to ensure that projects achieve learning outcomes. (JOW)

Describes how the stakes are high for the few seniors at the University of Southern California's film school who are chosen to direct a movie as their final project. (EV)

Reexamines what it means to conduct research. Emphasizes the importance of collaborative research, and recommends ways to encourage collaboration in students' research projects. (MM)

Children are naturally fascinated by mechanical things, and simple machines can be used to teach them how things work and how complex machines are made up of simple ones. (SK)

This chapter from a book titled "A New View: Economics and the Zoo" provides three classroom learning activities which use principles and activities of zoos to teach about such concepts as scarcity of resources, opportunity costs of decisions, resource use, and designing the perfect zoo. (DB)

Presents methods and materials needed to involve students in designing and maintaining Web sites while they learn valuable computer skills. (SK)

Using systematically colored circles to represent the elements, students are guided to a discovery of the important factor that leads to the periodic system. (DDR)