This paper discusses how museums, adventure programs, and discovery activities can become an intrinsically differentiated gifted curriculum for gifted learners. Museums and adventure programs are a forum for meaningful learning activities. The contextual characteristics of effectively designed settings for learning activities can, if the…

This updated resource manual of racial diversity programs and activities should help promote racial reconciliation and understanding among diverse communities. It includes 72 new programs, and six new Indiana communities actually embracing this challenge have been included: Crawfordsville, New Castle, Plainfield, Seymour, Valparaiso, and Wawasee.…

A historical research course taught at the University of Minnesota which uses local community resources is described. How guidelines are introduced, how students select topics, collect information, and develop research papers, and problems encountered are related in the article. (SM)

A new approach to a survey course in Black history offered at the Ohio State University Lima Regional Campus is described. The project consisted of a cooperative writing of the history of the local Black community. (SM)

Project seeks out individual learning initiatives from the educational community for support, dissemination and adaption. Teachers are encouraged to share their ideas in the project newsletter, descriptive articles, exchange visits and periodic Saturday meetings. Resources multiply as educators organize and extend their ideas through such methods…

Presents a plan that shows how the knowledge, skills and experience of "older" persons can be used as a resource to improve effectively the quality of education (Author/DN)

Authors suggest that June is a time to examine the year ending and plan for the one approaching. (Author/RK)

A statewide occupational advisory council can build connecting links'' between schools in communities, areas, and in the state. (Editor)

A new 4-H program, developed and tested in Virginia, aims at teaching youth about their communities and how they function, and also seeks to involve them as part of that function. (Author)

When results of a county-wide questionnaire indicated specific needs, the Home Economics Extension Service set up a variety of programs to provide information and service. (SP)