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Finley, Fred N.; Nam, Younkeyong; Oughton, John – Science Education, 2011
Earth Systems Science (ESS) is emerging rapidly as a discipline and is being used to replace the older earth science education that has been taught as unrelated disciplines--geology, meteorology, astronomy, and oceanography. ESS is complex and is based on the idea that the earth can be understood as a set of interacting natural and social systems.…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Earth Science, Intellectual Disciplines, Concept Teaching
Emerson, Mark F. – Independent School Bulletin, 1972
Discusses the structure in history as a guide to learning more about the present and as an aid toward understanding the assorted events of history. (RK)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Curriculum Development
Van Deventer, W. C.; Sternberg, Bob R. – 1966
The activities developed for this project were based on the assumption that science teaching at the junior high school level becomes more meaningful if it is idea-centered and if the ideas selected for study: (1) cut across two or more fields of science, (2) are taught through open-ended laboratory experiences with subject matter introduced as…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Conceptual Schemes, Curriculum Development, Interdisciplinary Approach