Health science students like students in many disciplines exhibit difficulty with transferring content from one course to another. For example, the problem explored in this study occurred when overlapping concepts were presented in introductory biology and chemistry courses, but students could not transfer the concepts to the other disciplinary…

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…

A humanistic education curriculum program is described. The major objective of the project is to enhance the self-concept of each student. The interdisciplinary humanistic curriculum contains six components. The first component describes Unified Studies departmental ideas, beliefs, and goals which will further humanistic objectives, including…