Twelve English teachers relate their personal experiences with using and learning to use audiovisual aids. (RL)

The authors suggest that photography teachers can help students develop their language skills, since photography, writing, and speaking all involve the same creative skills of articulating feelings, organizing impressions and experiences, and evaluating creative works. Specific activities correlating photography and language are described. (SJL)

Describes inexpensive methods for producing photomicrographs using a 35mm camera with a detachable lens and an adapter to attach the camera to the microscope. Discusses problems with exposure, disc diaphragms, and focusing. (CS)

Discusses positive effects of digital photography on the teaching of mathematics and cost-effectiveness for schools. Discusses appropriate digital camera resolution, storage, printers, and handheld options for classroom use. (KHR)

Discusses a project in which students visit the town of Madrid, New Mexico, to create a photographic record of Madrid, accompanied by stories. Explains that a video documentary was created about this experience. Includes background information on the village of Madrid to be shared with students. (CMK)

Describes a method for capturing a real object and its real image on film. Explains many photography terms related to the experiment. (MVL)

Presents an activity that utilizes a digital camera to capture a stream of water from a faucet to study quadratic behavior using graphing calculators. (ASK)

Still photography is useful as a teaching aid for demonstrating the technical aspects of photocomposition. In analyzing still photographs of his own making or from magazines and books, the student learns to move beyond simple expression which may not interest others to a point where he thinks in terms of communication combined with the intent to…

The availability of 72 inexpensive (50 cents each) still cameras and 200 rolls of film (19 cents per roll) to 70 English teachers in Frederick County, Maryland, has provided the means of stimulating students to expand their understanding of the environment and to sharpen their communicative talents. Projects undertaken include the students' use of…

This purpose of this article is to explain, in simple terms, the difficulty students have in a British sixthform course in proceeding from X-ray photograph to molecular structure. (HM)

Describes a successful working relationship between staff members of a high school newspaper and the school principal who acts as a staff photographer. (MB)

Presents three activities: (1) investigating succession in a schoolground; (2) investigating oak galls; and (3) making sun prints (photographs made without camera or darkroom). Each activity includes a list of materials needed and procedures used. (JN)

Explains the advantages in using the photographic medium in the classroom, describes some test instructional techniques that can be used, and lists sources of earth science learning/teaching materials. (GS)

An economics course for senior high school students which relies on cameras and cassette tape recorders in one locally developed project is described. A second is the effort by another high school to indicate a social studies curriculum meaningfully related to the real world. (Author/KM)

Tells how tape recordings, photographs, drawings, and other visual materials are used by the English classes that produce "Bittersweet", a quarterly about the Ozarks. (TO)