"Our Young Authors" is a writing project held each spring semester at the Cambridge Elementary-Junior High School (Wisconsin) open to all children in the school. Begun in 1978, the program is thriving, with over 90% of the students having participated in the competition in 1982. Students create their own books according to timelines and…

The extremely popular "training" studies, virtually all of which have been devoted to the attempt to experimentally induce conservation in nonconserving subjects, were discussed with respect to the logic underlying the method and surrounding theoretical and methodological difficulties. (Author/SDH)

"Tribal Masks" was an interesting project for seventh and eighth graders who used "found" or "donated" materials as a result of budget cuts and art supply shortages. (Author/RK)

Explores some of the classroom techniques of first language teaching which can be applied to the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. (PM)

How students can be involved in the actual work to be done in the school. (HB)

Guidelines for classroom production of an historical film are suggested on the basis of the author's experience with college students who developed a film on America in the fifties. Technical and procedural suggestions are emphasized. (JH)

Presents a report of the annual conference of the Education Group of the Institute of Physics, held at the University of Oxford. The educators agreed that project work is a useful teaching technique and that there is a need for categorization of such activities. (MLH)

In the context of an anthropology curriculum, public high school students performed as informant-ethnographers of their own social milieu. Using the film and fieldwork techniques, students demonstrated that with training and sensitivity such studies could be more than simple academic exercises. (AUTHOR/NQ)

A project in which college students produced a multimedia documentary of life in Two Harbors, Minnesota, while surveying residents' attitudes toward the project, is described in this paper. Topics discussed include a documentary project held in a different town the previous year, the value of analyzing public reaction to such a project, the way…

BEGINNING IN 1958, STUDENTS SHOWING EXCEPTIONAL PROMISE IN SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS WERE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN A YEAR-ROUND SEMINAR. STUDENTS WERE CHOSEN ON THE BASIS OF THEIR INTEREST, ABILITIES, AND THEIR PERFORMANCE ON A WRITTEN TEST. THEY ENTERED THE PROGRAM AT THE END OF THEIR FRESHMAN YEAR AND COULD REMAIN IN IT THROUGHOUT…

This paper describes a collaborative technique for teaching technical writing, a technique that is designed to give students experience with a type of writing done rarely in the classroom but employed frequently in the work world. Students, divided into two groups, work together in composing a proposal for an extensive research project or a more…

This third of three booklets was prepared by the Michigan Office of Services to the Aging to help agencies concerned with aging to plan volunteer programs. This volume is a compendium of resources, including materials from seven different volunteer programs. It contains a wide variety of training tips and techniques to help the person(s) in charge…