"Children as Researchers in Primary Schools" is an innovative and unique resource for practitioners supporting children to become "real world" researchers in the primary classroom. It will supply you with the skills and ideas you need to implement a "children as researchers" framework in your school that can be adapted for different ages and…

Describes a class project on hydroponic farming (growing plants in water and in organic nutrients rather than dirt). Students formed a corporation to raise necessary funds and paid dividends from the proceeds earned selling the crop. (JMB)

In lieu of the traditional term paper, students in this Shakespeare class can form a production company and videotape scenes from one or more plays. (BD)

Describes 10 classroom projects designed to stimulate elementary children at the end of the school year. (SB)

Tells 15 ways you and your kids can raise money, including candy apple sales, graffitti space sales, and readathons. (RH)

Describes an artifact box that fourth grade students filled for their teacher to take to students in Japan. The process consisted of committee formation, budget hearings, and shopping. The final product contained clothes, food, cassette recordings, toys, and school materials. (KC)

Article provided some tips on how teachers and students can incorporate the Bicentennial in their learning experiences. (Editor/RK)

Describes a class project designed to bridge the learning gap between June and September by creating a bag full of summer learning activities. (SB)

After offering biographical background about Beverly Cleary, one of America's most popular children's authors, this book summarizes each of her novels, also noting illustration credits and any awards received by the work. The books are grouped by setting and/or age appropriateness. Settings of Cleary's life, which later became settings for her…

Students designed and painted their school's walls in a massive school enlivening project. (Author/RK)

This paper suggests some of the more important implications of classroom oral history projects based on the example of Foxfire. (Author)

Presents simple instructions for 15 mixed media art projects for the elementary grades. Part one of this series, listing 18 other techniques, appeared in the September 1979 issue of Instructor on pages 145-49. (SJL)

Describes the assignment of an oral history project in a communications history course offered at Northwestern University, indicating the project's benefits to teacher, students, and community. (RL)

Intended as a an aid to elementary school teachers, this handbook presents a literature unit based on the children's book, "Madeline" (Ludwig Bemelmans). It begins with sample lesson plans, a unit planner, getting to know the book and author, and suggestions for using the unit activities. Next, a section offers unit activities focusing…