The article describes how an integrated studies course at an English secondary school is helping to meet the multicultural needs of handicapped students. The 2-year course covers English, history, geography, religious education, and social studies and comprises about half of the students' day. (PHR)

Twenty elementary and secondary schools from throughout the five-county Southeastern Pennsylvania region were selected from 44 applicant schools to receive grants for Local Action Programs of environmental education. Included in this booklet is a resume of each of these programs. Information specifies program name, school name and address, program…

Learning-teaching philosophies basic to open education are presented, and classroom processes which grow out of these philosophies are described in this booklet. Contents include a summary of the Environmental Studies Project in North Carolina and discussions of several aspects of open education (including interpersonal relationships, individual…

Urbana (Illinois) High School has had a class for pregnant students for several years, taken for physical education credit. This year the program was expanded to include postpartum as well as antepartum students, a unit on nutrition, and community health and social services. (MF)

Describes six content area reading programs with an interdisciplinary approach to teaching reading skills. (RB)

This concluding report of a project initiated by the Cogswell Polytechnical Institute entitled "The Richmond Plan," focuses on the results of a reevaluation of the principles and practices of high school programs in the Richmond City Schools in California. This project, designed to meet the specialized needs of "average" high…

Seventeen elementary and secondary schools from throughout the five-county Southeastern Pennsylvania region were selected from 67 applicant schools to receive grants for Local Action Programs of environmental education. Included in this booklet is a resume of each of these programs. Information specifies program name, school name and address,…

To improve students' critical-thinking skills, an interdisciplinary team of educators collaborated with a specialist. The result: a new model for infusing thinking-skills instruction. This paper describes the change process, the CRTA model's evolution, derivation of its acronym, and early qualitative results. (Contains 31 references.) (MLH)

The interdisciplinary social studies materials for sequential use in grades nine through twelve and designed to help each student develop into an independent thinker and a responsible citizen are assessed. Most class activities are organized around directed discussion working toward the objectives of inquiry skills, knowledge, values, and…

An overnight canoe trip by seventh and eighth grade students on Lake George, New York, exemplifies one aspect of extending the curriculum, both for recreation and environmental education. Experiences with camping, canoeing, American History, aquatic ecology, and other areas are described to show the unlimited possibilities of such activities. (BL)

Discusses and evaluates an interdisciplinary environmental project in which junior high school students pretend that they are members of an interplanetary force which landed on earth. Activities include locating and testing local water supplies, marking hazards at the landing site, and using natural resources found near the landing site to make…

Describes an instructional development team approach designed to make secondary reading programs more effective. (Author/JM)