The author feels the student should be asked to creatively solve realistic problems beginning in the freshman and sophomore years. The professor becomes a coach" to help the student develop his abilities rather than teach" skills that someone else has developed. (TS)

The course is an organized introduction to modern technological devices and techniques for art students and working artits. Topics include computers, optics, and lasers. (Author/TS)

The use of independent experimental investigations of topics of the student's choosing is described in physics courses at Wittenberg University. Various projects which have been done are listed. (TS)

Discusses KIDS, a magazine written by and for children of ages 5 to 15, and examines other children's responses to the magazine and their evaluations. (VJ)

Hands-on lessons highlight this elementary-school program in the three Rs. (GB)

Includes a list of some of the assignments made and poems written by several students. (RD)

Part of a series of articles entitled "Environment and the Child.

The literature and research on reading and the gifted student at the preschool, elementary, and secondary levels are reviewed, and suggestions for the classroom are offered. Approaches to instruction for the gifted might include critical and creative reading, grouping gifted readers together, and inquiry reading. (SEW)

"Astronomy with the Space Telescope" is a course designed to show scientists/engineers how this instrument can make important advances in astrophysics, planetology, and geophysics. A description of the course (taught to 11 students working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and sample student paper on black holes are…

This paper describes how H. S. Bhola's models for planning change in education and development were taught and applied by senior nursing students in term papers at Andrews University (Michigan). The models were used for: (1) case studies of past changes; (2) planning organizational and educational changes; (3) planning institution building; and…

Describes a laboratory exercise in which students select and identify an organism, study it as it interacts within its environment, collect further information through library research, and bring the organism (alive, preserved, or photographed) to lab for a five-minute presentation. (JN)