Describes how the stakes are high for the few seniors at the University of Southern California's film school who are chosen to direct a movie as their final project. (EV)

Reexamines what it means to conduct research. Emphasizes the importance of collaborative research, and recommends ways to encourage collaboration in students' research projects. (MM)

Children are naturally fascinated by mechanical things, and simple machines can be used to teach them how things work and how complex machines are made up of simple ones. (SK)

This chapter from a book titled "A New View: Economics and the Zoo" provides three classroom learning activities which use principles and activities of zoos to teach about such concepts as scarcity of resources, opportunity costs of decisions, resource use, and designing the perfect zoo. (DB)

Presents methods and materials needed to involve students in designing and maintaining Web sites while they learn valuable computer skills. (SK)

Using systematically colored circles to represent the elements, students are guided to a discovery of the important factor that leads to the periodic system. (DDR)

The project based learning by using Campus Calgary/Open Minds programs encourages schools and teachers to participate in a variety of learning methods. The use of on-site learning techniques makes it an integral part of planning and implementing variety of projects, which in turn encourages huge participation from students.

In project-based learning, students work in groups to solve challenging problems. They decide on an approach and what activities to pursue. Their teachers guide and advise them rather than direct the work. The process that students use is to gather information from many sources, analyze the value of what they find, and derive knowledge from it.…

Mr. Johnson has discovered that the higher the level of student engagement and creativity, the lower the probability of plagiarism. For teachers who would like to see such desirable results, he describes the characteristics of assignments that are most likely to produce them. Two scenarios of types of assignments that avoid plagiarism are…

Portfolios are popular in language teaching, both as a learning tool and a process-oriented assessment instrument. They require the compilation of student projects, performances, and other assignments over a semester or school year to record the growth of learning. When portfolios are used for evaluation, they are called an alternative assessment…

Professional development (PD) experiences for special education teachers are designed to facilitate teacher learning and the implementation of evidence-based practices. PD should also make a positive impact on the K-12 students with disabilities that are in participating teachers' classrooms. In this study, the author investigates the outcomes of…

Students increasingly need to learn to communicate statistical results clearly and effectively, as well as to become competent consumers of statistical information. These two learning goals are particularly important for business students. In line with reform movements in Statistics Education and the GAISE guidelines, we are working to implement…

Situated within a university-based content literacy course, this article considers the spaces between the curricular realities of middle school and high school classrooms, what we call the "what is," and potential alternative configurations of curriculum and instruction for these classrooms, what we call the "what could be."…

The Project Approach has been applied to early childhood education in Taiwan since 1993. The purposes of this study were to explore how teachers of young children conduct the Project Approach, what challenges they have encountered and what support they may need. In addition, this study investigates teachers' implementation of the Project Approach…