Care providers can help develop visual literacy in school-age children by taking children on trips to local art museums and television stations and by having children produce their own low-cost photographs, color slides, or film strips. Provides detailed directions for making slides from magazine photographs and new film strips from old film. (MDM)

The author suggests handbuilt slides as an art project for elementary or secondary students. Instructions are given for making slides with found objects, smoke, and magazine lifts. The article is illustrated with several examples of this technique. (SJL)

Recommends producing a slide show instead of the traditional print yearbook to commemorate a high school's annual activities and offers suggestions for such a production. (AEA)

Describes how to illuminate and optically stain slides for microscope use and how to interface a 35mm camera with a microscope using an adaptor. Provides equipment descriptions and sources, details about illumination, image formation, darkfield adaptors, centerable filter adaptors, darkfield stops, rheinburg filters, and choosing specimens to…

In this art activity students are asked to make drawings based on projected images of photographic slides. Teachers can project their own personal slides or the slides of old masters for the activity. It is a unique way to motivate students. (RM)

Equipment and procedures for simple astrophotography are discussed. Sample photographs are provided. Suggested are several uses of the slides and the techniques for teaching astronomy. (CW)

Suggests ways of using teacher-produced photographs in English and language-arts classrooms. Offers examples of how a series of pictures was used and how students responded. (RL)

Describes the use of a 35-millimeter camera with color slide film to produce photographs of constellations, star trails, bright comets, aurorae, and meteor showers. Discusses film speed, lenses, f-stop settings, exposure times, and other items related to astrophotographic technique; provides ideas for use of slides in the classroom. (JM)

Provides information about producing stereo slides and their use in the classroom. Describes an evaluation of the teaching effectiveness of stereo slides using two groups of 30 randomly selected students from introductory geomorphology. Results from a pretest/postttest measure show that stereo slides significantly improved understanding. (JM)

Outlines procedures for using some photographic techniques to start a black and white slide collection. Instructions are given for: (1) necessary equipment and materials; (2) photographing images such as photos, charts or drawings; (3) developing the film; and (4) setting up the filing system. Photographs and drawings illustrate the process. (AMH)

Provided are reviews of science films, slides, audio cassettes, and wall charts. Each review includes title, source, country of origin, description of subject matter presented, appraisal, and target audience. Among the topics considered are smell/taste, grasshopper behavior, photography, bat behavior/flight, pond life, exploring planets, locusts,…

Includes nine articles that discuss audiovisuals in junior and senior high school libraries. Highlights include skills that various media require and foster; teaching students how to make effective audiovisuals; film production; state media contests; library orientation videos; slide-tape shows; photographic skills; and the use of audiovisuals to…