Describes a unit of study focused on the novel "Summer of My German Soldier" (by Bette Greene), involving a range of activities, such as research, poetry writing, and collecting visuals. Describes how students were evaluated through a collage which was a fusion of the reading of the novel with writing, researching, visuals, and their own artwork.…

An engineering design group in Australia collaborates with industry partners through a staged liaison model that includes short-term undergraduate projects and longer-term product design and development opportunities that may include training for industry clients. (Author/SK)

Describes a senior project that requires students to relate their undergraduate studies to the works of distinguished economists. Argues that this activity fulfills the need for integration and a culminating experience at the end of undergraduate study. Discusses mentoring the projects and possible project topics. (DSK)

Describes an upper-division English course called "The Rhetoric of AIDS," focusing on learning to read the cultural discourses of science, medicine, government, public policy, sexuality, and social justice. Discusses classroom discussions, teaching collectives, collective educational projects for the rest of campus, and community-service projects,…

Presents tips on selecting and pursuing developmentally appropriate classroom projects for young children. Includes print and Web-site resources for project development. (KB)

Argues that hands-on, project-oriented teaching offers an ideal approach to integrating Geographical Information Systems (GIS) education and training. Presents a project-oriented GIS teaching experience as an instructional paradigm that can be used to ensure balance between conceptual GIS learning and software-based hands-on training in…

Describes how, after studying the Holocaust and other human-rights issues in their eighth-grade language-arts classes, students felt compelled to create a permanent memorial and reminder. Discusses how the project unfolded from finding and shaping an idea, collecting stories from around the nation, crafting the mosaic and the flower garden, and…

Describes Academic Service-Learning (AS-L), in which classroom content is infused into a community-service experience. Describes a successful AS-L project in a business-communication class. Notes that its greatest strengths are students' tying theory into actual application of principles, student passion for the work, faculty enthusiasm for the…

The senior project, which allows students to select a topic, study it in depth, and produce a culminating exhibition, is one vehicle for promoting information literacy in high schools. Success means using the talents of the teacher and teacher-librarian to coordinate lessons, accomplish assessment, and arrange for use of school facilities. (MLH)

Provides a rationale for content-based instruction and demonstrates how project work can be integrated into content-based English-as-a-Second-Language classrooms. Outlines the primary characteristics of project work, introduces project work in its various configurations, and presents practical guidelines for sequencing and developing a project.…

Design characteristics and instructional practices in exemplary technology education accord with cognitive science perspectives on learning, knowledge, and instruction, e.g., collaborative learning, socially distributed expertise, student as designer, and project-based learning. Teachers should examine the degree to which cognitive science theory…

Business students planned a fund-raising event for two clients, incorporating management principles. Authentic assessment methods were used to evaluate the project. Students' critical thinking skills were enhanced and they were highly motivated by having input from multiple evaluators, including clients. (SK)

Discusses the power of film and films as teaching tools. Describes how the 1987 French film "Au Revior Les Enfants" can serve these purposes. Discusses its historical context, and ways to show the film in class. Lists numerous topics (on important film themes, and on technical aspects of film) for student projects. (SR)

Describes Controlled-Operation Mechanical Energy Transducers (COMETs), which are part of a project to introduce sophomore chemical engineering students to a number of important engineering concepts that are usually addressed later in the academic program. (DDR)

Describes the incorporation of health and safety issues into the engineering curriculum and focuses on an approach that introduces students to open-ended problems early in the curriculum. Reports that students are able to provide fresh solutions to mundane problems. (DDR)