The guide was developed to provide secondary students the opportunity to study aviation and aerospace education from the conceptual and career approach coupled with general education specifically related to science. Unit plans were prepared to motivate, develop skills, and offer counseling to the students of aviation science and occupational…

This course provides students with the general information, technical knowledge, basic skills, attitudes, and values required for job entry level as an auto body repair helper. Course content includes goals, specific objectives, orientation, filling with body solder, and plastic filler. A post-test sample is appended. (NH)

Reported is the implementation of a science seminar program and an "8 + 2 Program" at Masters School and Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York. Senior students in the seminar program were asked to conduct ecological studies of uninhabited islands in the U.S. Virgin Island chain and studies of the nutrition value of Central American grains. The…

This publication is a syllabus for a senior high school chemistry course designed for the average ability, nonscience major. The content of the syllabus is divided into three basic core areas: Area I: Similarities and Dissimilarities of Matter (9 weeks); Area II: Preparation and Separation of Substances (10 weeks); Area III: Structure and…

The use of a telemedicine system (live, color microwave television transmission with two-way auditory and visual communication capability) to teach a course in critical care nursing from an urban university medical center to staff members in rural southeastern Ohio hospitals is described. (MS)

This course, offered by the departments of chemical engineering and polymer science and engineering at the University of Massachusetts, is mainly a course in applied fluid dynamics with an emphasis on flow pressures dominated by viscous effects. (BB)

Examines an interdisciplinary course offered by the Nursing and Speech Communication Departments at Miami University which is intended to supplement basic nursing education that doesn't include the concept of interpersonal relationships. (MH)

Outlines development and structure of a one-year college geography course focusing on women's role in geography. Content includes the division of labor by sex; demography of women; geographic perspective on women's role through the history of Western civilization; how women's role changes the face of the earth; women, politics, and environment;…

Describes development and content of a college research seminar about women and geography. Content included female spatial behavior, distributions of phenomena of special concern to women, women's modifications and perceptions of the landscape, and comparison of historical and contemporary roles of men and women. (AV)

Speculates on the role of geography education and its relationship to the women's movement. Describes innovative classroom strategies to generate more meaningful involvement by women students and to stimulate graduate students to develop research topics on the subject of women. (Author)

This paper describes course design aimed at catching up with current business practice. Discussion concerns differences between old and new pedagogies, as well as obstacles in the way of adopting the new approach, particularly in the introductory course. (Author/IRT)

Educational innovations are frequently undertaken with little or no planning. There are occasions, however, when it is possible to define educational problems with some precision and to plan changes which will "solve" these problems. Here is a report on such a case in the teaching of introductory anthropology at a large land-grant university.…

This article describes some of the community projects undertaken by high school geography students for an urban studies unit. (RC)

Suggests features, objectives, and requirements of a continuing education course specifically designed to teach physical assessment skills basic to nursing practice. (TA)

Discusses how the intersection of biography and history serves as an appropriate vantage point for understanding human lives. Explains how a course which embodied this idea was developed and implemented focusing on the 1935 Vassar class. Examines oral histories as a central feature in designing and conducting the course. (GEA)