This guide is designed for adult volunteer leaders, camp counselors, and teachers who want to explore the subject of recycling with youth. An introduction explores the waste disposal options of reducing, reusing, and recycling, and reasons for recycling. Additional background information is provided on common solid waste and how it can be reused…

Describes methods teachers can use at the beginning of the school year to perceive students as individuals and to provide opportunities for both the teacher and the students themselves to recognize and appreciate the diversity and rich variety in the class.

A weekly classroom newsletter produced jointly by students and teachers is a practical way of involving adult basic education (ABE) students in writing activities while simultaneously increasing each student's ownership of the class. Such newsletters benefit ABE programs by incorporating the following recognized principles of adult education: ABE…

Described the creation of optical toys which students make and assemble themselves. (RK)

A method of instruction is presented in which learners construct their own understanding by engaging in experiments directed to solving specified problems. The method is based on how successful inventors learn and create new inventions.

Discussed the influence of Boris the Brontosaurus on third grade students, who created him in an art project. (RK)

Using the theme of food as the focus of their art students created some "POP art". (RK)

Production methods and content of a library-produced videotape titled "The Term Paper: Getting It Together." (LS)

Describes a course designed to acquaint students with making a search of chemical literature. The course presents various classes of chemical publication and the methods of using Beilstein and Chemical Abstracts. A follow-up project involves each student in a search for references for one or two organic compounds. (GS)

This document contains a guide for coordinators and a brief handbook for judges. The coordinator's guide outlines nine steps for organizing and conducting a county social studies fair. Designed for elementary and secondary schools, the focus of the fair is student centered. Students choose topics of personal interest (usually a problem, issue,…

This book of ceramic project ideas is for teacher or student use in secondary industrial arts courses. It was developed in a workshop by teachers. The content objectives are to provide useful projects and units of instruction and to give direction to ceramics instruction which is in keeping with a changing technology. Forty-one project plans are…

The laboratory phase of a materials course at the General Motors Institute is described. In the first six weeks of the laboratory, each student works individually to learn laboratory techniques; in the last six weeks the students work in teams of two on a project. The students are responsible for writing a project proposal and a project…