The results of a NSF-supported student project to determine certain environmental problems in Indiana are reported. The project sought to relate the quality of the local environment to human life and concentrated on problems of air pollution, water pollution, solid waste disposal, and environmental attitudes. (LS)

Discusses the following aspects of university project work: academic and social aims, recent trends, and availability of projects. Advises teachers how to determine the time allotment and assessment procedures for project work. (MLH)

Describes "Project School Flight" which is an idea originated by the Experimental Aircraft Association to provide the opportunity for young people to construct a light aircraft in the schools as part of a normal class. Address included of Experimental Aircraft Association for interested persons. (BR)

Presents a report on club work at the Lingreen Oberschule (high school) in Greifswald. Activities include contact with Soviet schools and clubs. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Views the teaching of materials as content oriented, while teaching design is process oriented. Advocates the integration of design teaching with materials teaching through design problems in which the materials component plays a large part. (GS)

The business club at Queensborough Community College started a bi-monthly publication of buy-sell advertisement to be distributed on campus. (BP)

Condensed from "The Instructor, Volume 78 (Dember 1968), 14-15.

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