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Peer reviewedHollenbeck, Michelle D. – Educational Leadership, 1997
For the past five years, Andover, Kansas middle-schoolers in an amateur radio club and class have sent and received Morse code messages, assembled and soldered circuit boards, designed and built antenna systems, and used computer programs to analyze radio communications problems. A successful bond issue financed a ham shack enabling students to…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Educational Technology, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
Peer reviewedMurdock, Linda A.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1995
On Fridays, rather than changing classes, the students at one middle school spend all four team periods with one teacher/adviser as they pursue intensive, independent quarterly learning projects in either science, math, social studies, or English. A program evaluation showed improved student engagement, independent learning, thinking skills, and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Independent Study, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities
