In this article, the author shares tips on how to keep students interested in learning about still-life art lessons. She relates that her main goal was to formally introduce students to observational drawing and the element of value. She shares that to prevent her students from losing interest, she keeps her time short, keeps the project simple,…

In this article, the authors describe how a time capsule project helped students at Ridgedale Elementary School in Knoxville, Tennessee understand the nature of events and the relationships of events in a segment of history. The time capsule preparation motivated students to hypothesize about important events and significant artifacts of their…

In this article, the author describes her attempt to develop more interactive mental mathematics sessions. She observed that her students perceive the multiplication tables as a series of facts which are either known or not known, not as tools which could be used to derive other facts in a flexible manner. She therefore undertook the task of…

Each year, students in Kittanning Senior High School's Principles of Technology (POT) classes have a design challenge, usually beginning with CO2-powered or Maglev-powered vehicles and progressing to such challenges as soap-box cars or radio-controlled airplanes. The author's recent POT class challenged them with the most exciting challenge yet:…

Students are required to write a four-generation family geneology. The assignment is particularly effective in a course on recent United States history. (NHM)

The aim of this paper is to show how the noise reduction by signal accumulation can be accomplished with a data acquisition system. This topic can be used for student projects. In many cases, the noise reduction is an unavoidable part of experimentation. Several techniques are known for this purpose, and among them the signal accumulation is the…

Author used animals as the basis for art activities thus giving greater insight into their conceptions of what animals are really like. (RK)

Described are the elementary principles of Fourier transform spectroscopy and typical experimental results obtained with a modified Michelson interferometer. (RH)

Seventh and eighth graders created wire and papier-mache sculptures of athletes in motion after studying the human form. (Author/RK)

A one semester high school elective in industrial design is geared to problem solving. (EA)

Elementary school libraries can be more than a place for books. Some suggestions are given for making the library an active part of the educational process. (LS)

Report of a Workshop (Subject-Field Meeting) conducted at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools, February 1969.