Describes a study by high school students and university researchers of coastal erosion along the beaches of a Long Island, New York town. Data will be used in making decisions regarding coastal zoning, planning, and management. (Author/WB)

Instructions are given for a class or school-wide art/language arts project in which students learn to evaluate and design book covers. (SJL)

Describes a student-directed computer system revival project in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at California State Polytechnic University, which originated when an obsolete computer was donated to the department. Discusses resulting effects in undergraduate course offerings, in student extracurricular activities, and in…

Described is a project in which art education graduate students in Perth, Australia, built a story mural for blind children. Using an Australian adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz," they created a mural with textures and objects that illustrated the story carried in print and braille. (SJL)

Describes a unit in which Nebraska seventh graders designed model farms. Sample science, math, social studies, and language arts activities on farming are included. (SJL)

The Lucia Mar (California) school system turned to a high school industrial arts class when no money could be found to construct a needed administration building. The project provided a new building, at half the cost of conventional construction, and valuable job training for many secondary students. (Author/WD)

A 40-item questionnaire was mailed to 200 high school graduates of vocational agriculture programs to determine the benefits students receive from supervised occupational experience programs. The highest ranked benefits were (1) "encouraged the keeping of records," (2) "promoted the acceptance of responsibility," and (3) "developed pride in…

This article describes a seventh-grade physical education class project that called for definitions of 21 terms such as human movement, dance, rhythm, time, space, etc. Individual projects included booklets, movies, photomontages, scrapbooks, and posters. (JMF)

Discusses how nutrition can be taught to match student eating practices and to face the revolution in food processing. Pizza processors and eating style are used as a model to show how teaching nutrition can be relevant to food as it is actually eaten. (HM)

"Reforms" have created large schools, which make new problems for the teacher. The following are briefly discussed: preparation of teaching material, procuring supplementary visual and auditory material, constructing tests, using the language laboratory, constructing a preparatory course, projects, and individualized instruction. (Text is in…

The authors propose the use of industrial arts as a vehicle for providing career awareness in the elementary school. They cite a 2-week integrated unit in manufacturing conducted at Hershey Elementary School (Lafayette, Indiana) where the curriculum encouraged second and third graders to explore the world of work. (Editor/HD)

Describes a graduate quantum mechanics projects in which students write a computer program that performs ab initio calculations on the electronic structure of a simple molecule. Theoretical potential energy curves are produced. (MLH)

The English-as-a-Second-Language program at the American Graduate School of International Management (Glendale, AZ) includes a research project on a U.S. company. This article discusses course structure, collaboration between the course instructor and a business librarian, creation of a corporation information Web site, and Web site effects on…

Describes an adventure through writing and art. Discusses the many uses of the blank sketchbooks\journals that students make. Describes an integrated writing and art workshop in which sketchbook\journal items are developed into finished pieces. Describes the evolution of a focused classroom inquiry project (a lunar investigation). Includes…

Describes a technique for teaching history to gifted students in which the student selects a current event and then researches the event's historical connections as far back as possible. (DB)