Project SAVE (Student Action for Valuing the Environment) encourages a team approach to solving environmental problems. SAVE suggests that students initiate, create, and implement practical approaches to solving community environmental problems. Included in this publication are descriptions of 13 exemplary programs that include elementary schools,…

The oral history section of a Penn State University course, "Culture and Ethnic Groups in the Social Studies," is described. (SJL)

Contains a teacher's description of how a radio script was developed by students and the completed script itself. (RL)

The use of student projects as teaching-learning activities is discussed. Numerous projects, the work of college students enrolled in American literature, journalism, and composition classes are described. The motivational value of projects is seen as an important aspect of this approach. (JMD)

Notes problems caused by untrained persons and excavators at archaeological sites and lists contacts for persons interested in working at sites in New York State. When excavations are merely a part of a minor unit, students lack the broader picture gained by a thorough study of the site. (KC)

One student's project involved a contest of guessing how many peanuts were in a 100-pound bag. His teacher briefly reflects on the wide range of guesses and students' concept of large numbers. (MP)

Two articles in the "Scientific American" form the background of this note. The rainbow angle for the primary bow of a monochromatic Cartesian rainbow is calculated. Special projects for senior high school students could be patterned after this quantitative study. (MP)

Provides an account of an animation film project that was conducted in a public alternative school for teenage drug abusers. Demonstrates how students can plan and shoot a film with a minimum of teacher involvement or direction. (RL)

Texas A&M University offers a health planning "laboratory" course with a rural focus; student findings have been surprising to all concerned. Within the geographic study area, there appear to be enough health services providers to satisfy existing criteria of adequacy, but barriers of awareness, culture, and finances preclude proper utilization.…

To update a traditional construction shop program, students at Passaic Valley High School, New Jersey, developed a mock-up model of a solar-heated A-frame vacation house using prefab construction. The article describes the project and illustrates it with photographs of the model and a drawing of the solar collector. (MF)

Describes student projects involving the appearance of "ghost" signals in television receptions. (SL)

Suggests language activities that students could be involved in as mini-units of one or two class periods or as individual projects on career education. (DD)

Argues that the media, messages and the electronic world should find a place in the primary curriculum as a significant area in their own right. The school's objective should be to develop the concept of literacy so that children come to "read," understand and evaluate media and messages of different kinds. (Editor/RK)

Gives practical suggestions for producing a creative multimedia show; discusses equipment, ideas, soundtrack, slides, movies, and screens. (KS)

Describes Youth Communication, a journalistic network in which students--many from inner city schools--assume full responsibility for managing, preparing, and marketing professional-type publications. (KS)