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My request was for ideas concerning students creating a project in MS Publisher, ones that also involve students doing some research. I wanted ideas that were beyond the standard "tell me about" report. Most of the responses were projects involving students making brochures. I am going to create a brochure or booklet (using PUblisher) listing the ideas as a handout for the session. We had kids making alphabet and counting books using the book fold facility in Publisher. They used clipart as well. These were younger students - 7/8 years old. I don't have any samples, but a couple years ago I had a teacher do what I thought was a creative use of research, which the kids put in to a Publisher brochure. The unit was to study the planets - and she had the kids do up a travel brochure promoting their given planet. It worked quite well - they had to research the planet and then use Publisher to make a brochure which included all the standard planet info - but in a creative fashion - comparing each to earth and what "earthlings" would find on that planet. (They didn't use Publisher for all the work - they did have to hand-draw the tourists visiting their planet). A teacher that I used to work with did a brochure for his planet study in 7th Grade Science. Students were assigned a planet to create a brochure to draw tourists. They were supposed to play on the traits of the planets. Mercury would be good for a tan (since it's so close to the sun) and Pluto might be a good place to go ice skating, etc. It was a great way for students to present elements of a planet without writing the typical research report. It was exciting to see the different layouts, use of images and creativity that students put into this project. You could use it for an election brochure for past presidents...have them choose a president and then create a brochure campaigning for their choice.... The ninth grade science teacher and I designed a great project (if I do say so myself :-) involving viruses and bacterial illnesses. The students were to create brochures outlining the illness, symptoms, treatments and prognosis. The kids did a great job with it- and it gave me a chance to do lessons on using an index, evaluating medical websites and using databases. High school geography classes have indeed done the travel brochure project. Also 8th graders have done a brochure for a biography project. Each panel had required information...such as back panel was for works cited, etc. We had kids do a brochure about caring for a family member with any of various diseases--they had to find symptoms, treatment, diet, general care, things to watch out for etc. they made brochures similar to what ;you might expect to find in the doctor's office Caring for a child with Chicken Pox, etc They loved it and learned a lot, not only about the diseases but condensing info into very consie statement, layout, etc. Hi - I presented this a few years ago at a conference - I think the links still work! http://www.morgan.k12.ga.us/mchs/magazines.htm Our 11th grade health classes create a brochure on a drug studied in class. They spend a day researching the drug and then planning and developing the brochure. The projects are used by our substance Abuse counselor. The students really get into the project. The students have also created informational brochures on medicinal plants. Again, research is done in the media center. But ideas that cross my mind include the travel brochure and newspapers that you mentioned, we recently did a newspaper one in class based on a book. Other things that would be fun, have them do postcards to people at home; could be a tie in with Ringo's new book that is a collection of postcards from the other Beatles. You could have a diary or journal format, with excerpts from places visited or activities at a location. It seems like I recently came across something with the Memory project and broasheets, they would be a different form of presentation. Another is a focus on the number of movies that have been on recently that are based on classic books, have them design a movie based on a favorite book and do the add posters for it. Another would be look at basic instructions that come with 'anything', and have them create basic instructions for different tasks. I hope this helps. One of my all time favorites was to pick a latitude and then make a travel guide to all of the places around the world at it. We have had 2 excellent projects done at our school by 7th graders. 1 of these is on our website. It was a study on the students' names. (I was disappointed that all of the research was done on the computer, instead of using our books, but it is a good project.) The other one is a brochure advertising a colonial village created by each student. That may be on the website soon. t o see the name brochure, go to www.westcanada.org . Choose "Our Schools"; the "Middle-Senior High"; then "Projects"; Then Mrs. Eramo "You can call me". The other project on the web site is a slide show (with a mis-spelled title!--please ignore.) Our high school Spanish teachers have their students at all levels create a travel brochure for a destination in a Spanish-speaking country. First year students use their vocabulary words in Spanish as the headings for weather, activities, etc, plus greetings. Spanish 4 students must create their entire brochure in Spanish! With Publisher (as opposed to Word), it is easy to create a 3-fold or bi-fold brochure with the Wizard, importing graphics (and citing on back of brochure!!) or using Clipart. We use a black and white laser printer, so I encourage them to select clipart that they can color in with markers. Sometimes we use colored paper to print them on. I frequently have to show my underclassmen that they have 2 sides to the brochure that they'll need to complete and have made a large dummy version that I can separate into the "front half" and "back half" for clarity. We also use Publisher for theater programs and on-campus admission tickets. Deborah J. Stafford Gen. H.H. 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