Describes projects for students in a journalism class, including researching journalism history, interviewing their parents, critiquing exchange newspapers, writing a term paper about journalism, working with outside agencies to plan a charity project, and publishing such school-related publications as football programs and play programs. (GT)

Describes a mural project designed to introduce students to the concept of overlapping similar images as a way of depicting a time sequence. This article is one of four articles in this issue on elementary-level mural projects. (Author/SJL)

Organizational behavior courses can ease the transition from classroom to practicing business community. Key features of the approach include firsthand experiences for the student and the integration of economic, behavioral, and management theories. (MP)

Describes a three-week, faculty-student summer project involving the study of waste-water treatment of refinery effluents. Discusses the use of such projects to aid industry in analyzing their problems. (MLH)

Students brighten their learning environment and their school spirit by painting murals on school walls. (RK)

Describes an art project that utilizes inexpensive found objects for making jewelry. (Author/RK)

Describes a routine assignment whereby four students came back with a detailed, comprehensive, and seemingly workable design for a city--a domed city of 40,000 to turn Antarctica green. (HD)

Tells how Warren Junior High School industrial arts classes, with the help of a National Defense Education Act (NDEA) grant designed, built, and debugged a solar energy collector system. (HD)

Describes three plastics projects (which involve making a styrene fishing bobber, an acrylic salad fork and spoon set, and acetate shrink art) designed to provide elementary level students an opportunity to work with plastics and to learn about careers in plastics production and distribution. (TA)

Elements involved in organizing and conducting the Drexel University's annual student fashion design program are discussed. (TA)

Through art, children learn about the life of the Jews in America from 1654 to the present with special emphasis on the last 200 years. (Author)

Can a basic weaving lesson turn into an innovative program? Yes. Describes a basic circular weaving lesson that was introduced to all second grade classes in the Griswold Elementary School, Kensington, Connecticut. (Author/RK)

The American Library Association (ALA) enlisted the help of design students at the University of Illinois/Chicago to produce an advertising campaign for the nation's libraries. The campaign, which took 15 weeks to prepare, resulted in bold, unusual, sometimes ambiguous, and thought-provoking ads. It embodied the relationship between libraries and…

Describes two projects featuring problem-oriented lessons and assignments. The Gallatin (Tennessee) High School Interdisciplinary Project was a four-year case study that investigated students' ability to make connections with their societal and school curriculum using self-selected cases, videodiscs, and literature. "Explorers of the…

Describes a four- to six-week project for high school sophomores in which students create pamphlets and in the process learn basic research skills and practice several elements of the research paper. (SR)