Provides exercises for the sampling and analysis of suspended solids in streams. Advantages are that a number of homemade devices can be used and their construction can involve students at a practical level. The exercises lead to a greater understanding of the natural system. (Author/KC)

How to make a kite. (SJL)

The author discusses the nature of graffiti and suggests ways of understanding it and combatting it--by the use of murals, vines, shrubbery, and designed-in barriers. (KC)

Described is an eleventh- and twelfth-grade art curriculum which meets four times a week and is largely a conceptual approach to the arts. It is built around a reading and film list and uses as raw materials ourselves and our environment. The lists are not included. (KC)

Instructions are provided for a four-week high school art project in creating soft sculpture figures out of fiberfill and cloth over wire forms. (SJL)

Described is a secondary school project in the creation of inflatable sculptures, from small forms to large, inhabitable structures. (SJL)

The author suggests a variety of ways in which aluminum and aluminum foil can be used in elementary and junior high art classes: relief drawing and rubbing; printing; repousse; sculpture; mobiles; foil sculpture; and three dimensional design. Sources of aluminum supplies are suggested. (SJL)

Describes calligraphy activities used with junior high and high school students, based on texts by John Cataldo. (SJL)

The author outlines the procedures for paper lithography and suggests it as a worthwhile project for all grade levels. This article is one of several in this issue on graphic arts projects. (SJL)

Suggests methods for teaching research skills at the university level. A variety of ways exist to add creativity and student centered activities to the curriculum. Students may have choices in their input data or in defining the problem then using a constrained method of analysis. (Author/KC)

Gives instructions for making rag paper as a high school art project. (SJL)

Describes an artifact box that fourth grade students filled for their teacher to take to students in Japan. The process consisted of committee formation, budget hearings, and shopping. The final product contained clothes, food, cassette recordings, toys, and school materials. (KC)

This paper outlines the benefits and problems which both students and staff supervisors encounter in undertaking a major project as part of the degree program in the Department of Management Studies at the University of Waikato. (Author/JEG)

Describes a student-prepared multi-media show. (DD)

Describes the Annual Book-Banning Project for 11th-grade English classes, a four-week project that tackles the issue of censorship by having students in groups prepare and carry out mock book-banning hearings. Describes how students integrate various skills and also experience the passion, hard work, cooperative planning, and group dynamics of a…