Provides suggestions for turning the search for local history materials into a coherent package for the classroom. Teachers should choose a project that teaches skills and helps shape student values. A thematic approach (for example, transportation) contributes to selectivity and is useful for producing a sourcebook. (KC)

Describes a public service campaign developed as a class project for students in television and radio broadcasting to provide a realistic work experience. (JMF)

Describes a biochemistry class project which allows students to investigate independently the separate aspects of a common complex problem. The basic experimental procedure is detailed for obtaining information about the structure and geometry of L-ornithine carbamoyltransferase. (CS)

After discussing J.R.R. Tolkien's "Father Christmas Letters," fifth- and sixth-graders undertook a class project to answer second-graders' letters to Santa Claus. (SJL)

Under the guidance of an artist-in-residence, students at Stuckey Elementary transformed a corner of their library/media center into a fantasy reading nook with soft sculpture fabric landscapes, and foam furniture designed to look like clouds. (Author/SJL)

Junior high school students created and now staff and operate an art museum in a vacant classroom. Tours and learning activities are provided for local elementary students. (SJL)

Describes a stock market investing project for fifth graders. (SJL)

Outlines a decision matrix for use by students in selecting a project in graduate educational technology design and production courses. Decision variables relevant to the product, audience, and developer are discussed and the matrix used at San Diego State University is presented as an example. (RAO)

This article gives instructions for a student art project in making an animated cartoon. The necessary equipment is described and planning, drawing, and filming phases are outlined. (SJL)

Presents statements and questions which outline qualitative and quantitative standards for student projects and performances. These checklists can be developed for decision-making plans, speeches, presentations, reports, letters of complaint plus any number of creative projects. (KC)

Describes a learning project in analytical chemistry in which students are required to select instruments from the manufacturers' literature that would be suitable for a given analytical problem. Several examples are given. (SA)

Describes a laboratory and field project in which students compost garbage to trace the transfer of matter and energy through the biosphere. (MLH)

"Trick" your students and treat them to an uncustomary classroom celebration. (Editor)

Presents a procedure for involving small groups of students in the creation and production of videotaped short stories. (DD)

Describes a project where students publish their work on the World Wide Web. Enables students to share their work with other students and researchers around the world and to receive feedback from new sources. Discusses cyberscience, implementing web lab reports, and assessment strategies. (JRH)