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Smith, Hilton – Hands On, 1989
Lists 193 class projects proposed by teachers participating in Foxfire courses and workshops, 1985-88. Cites grade level, project description, product, audience, teacher, and school. Organized by grade level and subject. (SV)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
Diehn, Gwen – Hands On, 1991
Undergraduate teacher education students participated in the Foxfire instructional approach by developing field trip packages for elementary students visiting a farm and a garden/greenhouse. Describes problems with group dynamics among students and efforts to resolve problems. (KS)
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Field Trips, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
Clark, Wilma – Hands On, 1988
Describes an American literature class project to save a covered bridge from collapse. Illustrates how student initiative in contacting government agencies and news media, learning the history of the bridge, and raising public awareness about the project led to a joint county agreement to preserve the historic span. (DHP)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Teaching, Experiential Learning
Lewis, Becky – Hands On, 1988
Describes the production of a local history magazine by two advanced twelfth-grade English classes. Discusses difficulties encountered during the project, and offers practical suggestions for teachers considering such a project. (SV)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Innovation, Experiential Learning, Grade 12
Beck, Laverne; And Others – Hands On, 1991
Discusses teacher and principal attitudes toward implementation of the Foxfire approach on a school-wide basis at Rabun Gap Community School (Rabun, Georgia). Presents some of the student-generated experiential projects, including (1) developing and participating in Indian Day activities; (2) making and selling earrings; and (3) writing advice…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Decision Making, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning
National Workshop for Cultural Journalism (St. Louis, Missouri, August 9-12, 1979). Workshop Report.
Reynolds, Sherrod T., Ed. – Hands On, 1980
This issue of "Hands On" compiles edited papers and workshop presentations from the national conference on cultural journalism and experiential learning projects in the Foxfire mode. The conference brought together 200 teachers, students, and professionals and offered technical workshops, presentation workshops about specific programs,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Local History, Relevance (Education)
Lambacher, Sandra; And Others – Hands On, 1990
A teacher of gifted elementary school students reflects on her experiences using the Foxfire approach and on its value in involving students in experiential learning and facilitating higher level critical and creative thinking skills. Seven of her sixth grade students describe the projects they've completed over the years. (SV)
Descriptors: Creativity, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Experiential Learning
Van Gelderen, Virginia – Hands On, 1988
Discusses classroom projects developed jointly by students and teacher in a sixth grade gifted class. Describes projects involving ghost stories, science research, interviewing authors, the local telephone book, and holiday celebrations. (DHP)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Teaching, Elementary Education
Lewis, Becky; And Others – Hands On, 1991
Describes a project in which high school seniors in the second semester of a local history class learned teaching strategies and the Foxfire core practices and then taught local history to third graders. Includes comments from seniors and letters from third graders. (SV)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Grade 3
Wilder, Jenny – Hands On, 1987
Describes a failed attempt to develop a local history project within a high school American history course. Outlines a new enrichment course in which students work with primary source materials to produce a local history publication. (SV)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Descriptions, Educational Innovation, Enrichment Activities
Lindquist, Katie – Hands On, 1988
Describes an oral history project in which ninth graders interviewed residents of an Atlanta neighborhood facing disruption by urban development and prepared transcriptions and scrapbooks for presentation to the local historical society. (SV)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Innovation, Experiential Learning, Grade 9
Seifferman, Pat – Hands On, 1988
Outlines a high school campaign to increase community awareness of the problems of homeless people. Describes student efforts to research the facts and circulate their findings through flyers, posters, letters, speeches, and radio spots. Offers cautionary suggestions for teachers supervising similar projects. (SV)
Descriptors: Activism, Class Activities, Educational Innovation, Experiential Learning
Bennett, Carol – Hands On, 1991
Describes experiences in career exploration in a third grade classroom based on the Foxfire approach to instruction. Students researched careers by writing letters and interviewing real career people. They also set up "junior businesses" in the classroom, which involved designing business cards and purchasing products to sell. Students…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Career Exploration, Class Activities, Elementary Education
Adkins, Karen – Hands On, 1990
A Catholic-school teacher of grades five and six reflects on her first year of teaching and describes how Foxfire training led her to introduce group decision making and planning into her classroom. Resulting class projects including a newspaper, a play, and a booklet of ghost stories are described. (SV)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Class Activities, Experiential Learning, Intermediate Grades
Cox, Maggie – Hands On, 1990
A fifth grade teacher in a rural Kentucky school discusses three years of classroom experiences applying the Foxfire approach, focuses on the democratic decision-making process and the importance of student self-esteem, describes student-project problems and successes, and lists student accomplishments. (SV)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Experiential Learning, Intermediate Grades, Participative Decision Making
