Dual-enrollment (DE) science courses offer a way to strengthen the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics pipeline between high school and college. These courses offer high school students the opportunity to experience college science in a more supported environment, allowing them to adjust to the different academic and social demands…

The core portion of this trial unit prepared by the Australian Science Education Project provides an introduction to the structure of the earth, volcanic activity, the types of igneous rocks, earthquakes, and seismology, with an emphasis on the techniques of inference used to relate external evidence to internal structure. The optional activities…

The development of the Crustal Evolution Education Project (C EEP) materials at Western Washington University is described. (MDR)

Six underlying assumptions of the Crustal Evolution Education Project (CEEP) are analyzed. This article reports that all assumptions have been validated and that CEEP is accomplishing its major purposes. (MR)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsors a range of programs to fund innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Focuses on NSF's expectations for project evaluation beginning with a definition of evaluation and a discussion of why evaluation is needed. Also describes planning, formative, and summative evaluation stages and concludes…

In this investigation, students examine the topographic characteristics, water quality and human developments along Ohio's Olentangy River. They then learn about the Ohio Scenic Rivers Act and attempt to classify the Olentangy in accordance with this legislation. Presented are both a students' guide and a teacher's guide. The latter includes an…

Students use aerial photographs in this investigation as they study erosion and deposition along a section of Lake Erie's coast and learn about how groins affect these processes. The teacher's guide presents an overview of the unit, a materials list, suggested instructional approaches, answers to discussion questions, and evaluation items. A…

Four compulsory introductory activities, involving learning to use a stream tray, observing the relationship between water speed and entraining, transporting and depositing sediments, studying the formation of sedimentary rocks, and examining several types of sedimentary rocks, are completed by all students using the unit prepared for Australian…

The research reported in this paper concerns the design of instructional materials that represent the content structure of a science discipline and the development of methods of probing and representing the knowledge structure in a student's memory. The science discipline selected for the study was geology. Specifically, the conceptual structures…

The contents of a student investigation booklet of a Crustal Evolution Education Project instructional module is presented in a slightly condensed form. The module uses deep sea data collected by The Glomar Challenger. (MR)

Reports that teachers of the Crustal Evolution Education Project (CEEP) exhibit most of the characteristics typical of earth science teachers. However, their backgrounds in geology are superior to those of most earth science teachers. CEEP students tend to be academically above average. (Author/MA)

Detailed are the origins, development, and implementation of the Crustal Evolution Education Project (CEEP). This group has produced, for use in earth science and other classes in grades 8-10, a series of instructional modules based on current scientific research in the composition, history, and processes of the earth's crust. (BT)

This investigation focuses on the major erosional forces affecting the shoreline which cause it to wear away and build up. The types of devices that protect the shoreline are also discussed. The investigation is presented in the form of a teachers' guide and a students' guide, both of which are included. In the teachers' guide, an overview of the…

Reviews the Crustal Evolution Project (CEEP) for the development and evaluation of geology materials to supplement existing science curricula. (SL)

GEO-Study, an NSF-sponsored study, conducted by the American Geological Institute (1962-64) to examine the educational environment of 44 geology departments, initiating a change in United States geological education. Discusses the early years of development and study (emphasizing undergraduate geological education) and the last 10 years during…