Texas A&M University offers a health planning "laboratory" course with a rural focus; student findings have been surprising to all concerned. Within the geographic study area, there appear to be enough health services providers to satisfy existing criteria of adequacy, but barriers of awareness, culture, and finances preclude proper utilization.…

To update a traditional construction shop program, students at Passaic Valley High School, New Jersey, developed a mock-up model of a solar-heated A-frame vacation house using prefab construction. The article describes the project and illustrates it with photographs of the model and a drawing of the solar collector. (MF)

Describes student projects involving the appearance of "ghost" signals in television receptions. (SL)

Suggests language activities that students could be involved in as mini-units of one or two class periods or as individual projects on career education. (DD)

Argues that the media, messages and the electronic world should find a place in the primary curriculum as a significant area in their own right. The school's objective should be to develop the concept of literacy so that children come to "read," understand and evaluate media and messages of different kinds. (Editor/RK)

Gives practical suggestions for producing a creative multimedia show; discusses equipment, ideas, soundtrack, slides, movies, and screens. (KS)

Describes Youth Communication, a journalistic network in which students--many from inner city schools--assume full responsibility for managing, preparing, and marketing professional-type publications. (KS)

A mathematics project promoting an exploratory approach to mathematical problems as well as an organization and application of mathematical knowledge is described. (JT)

The vocational agriculture program at Greenville (South Carolina) High School centers around ornamental horticulture and jobs related to horticulture. Activities in the Future Farmers of America chapter program of work in ornamental horticulture account for the department's success in holding students. (MF)

A high school French class did a Bicentennial research project which resulted in a bilingual pamphlet about Lafayette in Delaware for distribution to all the French and Social Studies departments in the State. A "Lafayette Day" included a fashion show, slide show, and skit. (Author/SW)

While developing a research course for gifted high school students, improvements were made in a local pond. Students worked for a semester learning research techniques, statistical analysis, and limnology. At the end of the course, the three students produced a joint scientific paper detailing their study of the pond. (MA)

Constructing a miniature city motivates students to participate in a variety of learning experiences. (RL)

Provides excerpts from scripts and students' self-reports on their participation in a class project that taught communication skills through playwriting and performing. (RL)

The article provides an example of a project in physics concerning clocks in which gifted pupils engage in high-level problem solving while developing technical knowledge and appropriate scientific methodology. Drawings illustrate the principles taught by the project. (Author/DB)

Describes a project in which students are involved in producing an animated videotape recording and discusses the advantages of modern videotape equipment over other film media. An outline of the process covers materials used, storyboard and artwork production, videotaping procedures, and audio dubbing. (CLB)