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.…

Technology in every form has become an important part of everyday life. In business, it is a necessity for success and survival. Many authors (Kotrlik & Redmann, 2009; Ma & Runyon (2004), among others) in the arena of higher education have pointed out the need for truly integrated business and technology programs at the graduate level, but…

Describes the establishment and activities of a nationwide cooperative science program designed for grade 7 through grade 10 on the basis of inquiry learning, environmental approach, and Piaget's findings. Includes information about tentative titles, free materials, and publication schedules. (CC)

During the next school year, South Brunswick (New Jersey) High School will offer an interdisciplinary course developed by six teachers under a grant from the Federal Government and the local Board of Education. The objectives of the two-year development project were: (1) to allow staff to explore alternatives to traditional secondary school…

The Science/Technology/Society (STS) theme describes a contemporary trend in education which focuses on the teaching of issues such as air quality, nuclear power, land use, and water resources but justification for including STS in the high school core curriculum has a precedence based on historical connections among science, technology, and…

This is the final report of a three-year project at George Washington University (District of Columbia) that was intended to develop an understanding of the knowledge and skills required of a political psychologist and to design a model interdisciplinary graduate curriculum in political psychology that could be exported to other universities. The…

As part of Project Open (see related documents listed below), unified arts and industrial arts curricula were developed and implemented at Ona Junior High School in West Virginia. The unified arts program combines the four subject areas of art, home economics, music, and industrial arts. It is a two-year required course for all seventh and eighth…