This theme issue of "Service-Learning Network" explores the fundraising process as it applies to students and educators who want to secure financial aid for a school or community program. The article, "Seeking Funding for School and Community Programs" (Charles Degelman; Debra Ballinger; Vickie J. Burt), surveys the search for…

This four-section guidebook contains information and tools that will help Texas teachers implement the Independent Study in Home Economics Education course, along with examples and ideas that may be springboards for topics and strategies for student projects. The first section contains an introduction and the Texas legislation that permits the…

This ethnographic study was designed to gain a better understanding of the effects of student choice in Project-Based Learning (PBL) on achievement. Data for the study came from personal interviews with 10 predominantly female teachers who were currently involved in PBL with their students. Each teacher had at least 2 years of teaching experience,…

Annmarie Guzy realized she had some concerns about teaching honors courses as she prepared to teach at the same University where she had been an honors student herself. She enrolled in a summer seminar on teaching basic writing in order to expand her teaching horizons beyond the honors student mentality, and to address some of her concerns and…

Simulation can take advantage of the characteristics of the younger child more readily than the project. The challenge to industrial arts education is clear: The project method should be augmented with career simulation experiences associated with industrial technology--especially at the elementary school level. (Author/SA)

Discusses experience of teaching optical experiments with emphasis upon the student's design and construction of refracting and reflecting telescopes. Concludes that the student's interest and acquired knowledge are greatly enhanced through the use of realistic experiments. (CC)

Summarizes the characteristics of student projects of both college and secondary levels, involving schemes in operation and the functions of a working party on the study of society roles in project developments. Indicates that the wide use of project work will be beneficial to both student and teacher. (CC)

Discusses a two-year project on the properties of polyelectrolyte flocculants conducted by students at the Abbey High School, Redditch, England. Included are descriptions of the experimental procedures used and conclusions arrived at. (CC)

Discusses the offering of a residential project course for students in 1972 and a similar course for teachers in 1973 at the Grammar School, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. Included are descriptions of participants reactions and course objectives and topics. (CC)

Discusses the assessment scheme used in evaluating student projects in the Scottish Certificate of Sixth Year Studies. Included are the results from two tests of the assessment reliablilty and a description of teachers' views on the acceptability of assessment techniques. (CC)

By using analogies, artists and engineers have made many imaginative creations; moreover, when ninth-grade vocational students received training in synectics (an analogy-based technique) there was a highly significant increase in their originality and elaboration (Torrance creative-thinking tests), and their approach to shop projects and careers…

A look at a student run project of local origination programing for education at Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, High School. (HB)

A successful attempt at teaching a unit on ecology or environmental studies in a junior high school United States history class is described. (Author/KM)

Reports on Project Input at the Hoffman, Minnesota High School which gives students experience in using oral language with residents in a nursing home, retarded children and adults, and pupils in an elementary school. (RB)