Describes how Hauppague High School (New York) gifted and talented students created and assembled an illustrated interpretive guide to paddling the Nissequogue River using literary research and interviews, photographs, sketches, and biological and geological research. (NEC)

Describes a technical writing course built around student-designed projects. Argues that the course allows students to address worthwhile problems and to research and present their material in proposals, feasibility studies, research reports, and other appropriate forms. (SRT)

Students in an abnormal psychology course worked in teams to produce dramatizations of diagnostic interviews and then presented them in class. Positive and negative aspects of the activity are discussed. (RM)

A US history activity which generated excitement and enhanced class discussion involved students in writing each other letters as imaginary correspondents living through the period under study. Follow-up activities included displaying letters on bulletin boards, reading correspondence aloud in class, a debate, and a class-written history play. (RM)

In this physical geography field course, college students plan and develop interpretive guides that explain the physical environment of a field site. This approach has two advantages: students develop geographical skills to a level approaching professional expertise and distributing the brochures increases public awareness of the value of…

Discusses strategies used to integrate the teaching of high school biology and English. One major effort involved students writing and/or modifying the scripts for slide and filmstrip presentations. (JN)

Examines interactive reading as a technique for applying the findings of recent brain research to the reading process. Describes a method of interactive reading that requires students to relate their concepts, knowledge, and experiences to print and to practice language arts skills while creating an individual and personal picture book to share…

This guide is designed for facilitators and planners of adult literacy programs in the various countries of Anglophone West Africa, where many individuals have learned literacy in their own community languages but have not developed the English literacy skills required to function effectively in public administration and employment facilities. The…

This document reviews the Pacific Region Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (PJSHS) program for 2003-2004 which is a 10-month, precollege student research program held in Japan. The theme is AtmosphereThe Other Ocean. The program includes a one-week symposium of student delegates who have completed research projects in the sciences or have…

Reviews the basic theory underlying the lift and drag forces of a magnetically levitated vehicle riding over a continuous sheet guideway. Included are descriptions of the future vehicle characteristics and the students' construction of a superconducting magnetically levitated merry-go-round demonstration apparatus in a laboratory experiment. (CC)

In this paper a media technique, the photographic essay, is examined and suggested for use in geographic education. The procedures for planning and executing photographic essays using slides are explained. Attention is given to establishing objectives and organizing slides accordingly for effective learning. Basid principles of photographic…

Revised version of a paper given March 2, 1971 at the Padagogische Hochschule Niedersachsen. (WB)

Student criticism of traditional term paper assignments and their recommendations for a relevant" assignment led to a satisfactory creative project, reflecting the life and times of imaginary characters in history. (JB)

Illustrated. (RD)