Described is a art program designed to demonstrate the importance of synthesizing ideas and skills learned in different disciplines. Students designed projects constrained only by the stipulation that these projects had to relate to a discipline other than art. (KC)

Described is an eleventh- and twelfth-grade art curriculum which meets four times a week and is largely a conceptual approach to the arts. It is built around a reading and film list and uses as raw materials ourselves and our environment. The lists are not included. (KC)

An elementary school art museum, directed, staffed, and supplied by students, is described. Each year a unifying theme emphasizes the interrelationships of art, music, social science, math, reading, and English. The art students become artists of a selected period and their creations become the museum's collection for the year. (KC)

Described is a program which is both an educational philosophy and the title of a three-year program which began in the Fall of 1979. Designed to integrate art into the curriculum, Arts Are Basic is funded by a $51,000 grant from the Title IVC Elementary and Secondary Education Act. (Author/KC)

A competitive art project which involved high school students in creating a hamburger out of any kind of materials they wanted is described. The results were very creative. In one related activity, students were asked to write a creative hamburger recipe. Some of the rather curious results are reproduced here. (RM)

Greek mythology, Egyptian mummies, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City are the focus of a one-semester course given at the Sea Girt (New Jersey) Elementary School. It is an interdisciplinary program wherein students (grade 8) study ancient civilizations and do projects related to their studies. (KC)

A sustained visitation program was initiated between the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The program enables selected students to visit the museum on a regular basis for one semester, during which time they study, photograph, and videotape museum life and artifacts. (KC)

Describes a schoolwide project for grades 4-6 in which students combined social studies, library research, art activities, music, and dance to present an international festival. (SJL)

Because of concern about the preservation of the historic character of Stamford (Connecticut), children in a pilot program at an elementary school learned about neighborhood history, sketched houses, researched houses which had been torn down and drew and constructed replicas of them, and learned about renovation and period interior design. (IS)