The helping students completed a training course dealing with topics of communication, sensitivity, and resources. They had definite objectives for both themselves and the program. In implementation, the students tutored, oriented, ran projects, helped counselors and the administrative staff, answered student questions, and provided various other…

Presents a brief description of community projects undertaken by graduate students of early childbood at West Georgia College, Carrolton, Ga. (CM)

This paper suggests some of the more important implications of classroom oral history projects based on the example of Foxfire. (Author)

Illustrates, in words and pictures, a method for capturing the writer's stream of consciousness with self and for melding it with photographic expression. (KS)

The article describes a ten-day simulation project in the correspondence unit of business communications. The students learn to recognize that the previous weeks of letter writing and punctuation practice are required duties in their future careers. At the end of the project the students are shown how they were rated on daily activities in their…

High School social science course requires students to communicate the findings of their independent study through self-designed audiovisual projects. (STS)

Describes an advisers' class project (at the University of Oklahoma) which consisted of reporting on the casting of a bronze plaque bearing the names of the first school newspaper, "The Students Gazette," and its editor, Samuel M. Fox, for presentation in Philadelphia to commemorate scholastic journalism's Bicentennial. (MB)

Student media projects may serve as catalysts to return children willingly to the world of print. Slower students may be particularly receptive to this approach. (Author/STS)

Describes one high school social studies teacher's success in having students construct their own educational games to illustrate concepts from sociology and anthropology. (JDH)

Participation in the National History Day program (involving student papers, presentations, projects, and performances) provides many opportunities for eliciting the gifted behavior of sixth- through twelfth-grade students. The program, which emphasizes student involvement in real problems, can be used in the resource room, mainstreamed, advanced…

Instructions are given for creating earth dyes in the classroom. These dyes be used in the teaching of social studies, science, and art. A chart listing sources of natural dyes is offered. (DF)

A student arts festival that involved elementary and secondary students in drawing with chalk on a city block in New York City is described. Portraiture, cartoons, landscapes, abstractions, and inventive personal logos filled the huge canvas of the street in a virtual smorgasbord. (RM)

For a nonthesis master's degree in social studies, many Canadian universities require that students do a major project or monograph. A bibliography of such projects done between 1971 and 1980 is provided. An analysis of the projects is also included. (RM)

Student-made learning centers get students totally involved in the learning process. By creating and using such centers, students are gaining cognitive and affective skills, as well as a knowledge of research methods. Tables show Bloom's taxonomy of learning, steps for creating a learning center, and a center evaluation form. (DCS)

Students formed an art club for the purpose of creating a commemorative wall sculpture. Each section of the sculpture described a different aspect of American history. (RK)