Picturebooks offer powerful supports for teaching diverse content across different curriculum areas. Research and curriculum resources document their use in inquiry-based education practices, particularly in relation to science and philosophy. There is, however, little theoretical analysis of this use or cross-curricular comparisons. Applying a…

Microfabrication is a critical area to many branches of science and engineering. However, to many students accustomed to seeing transistors as things that come in a lab kit, it is an obscure subtopic of their discipline. Beginning in 2009, the authors undertook a broad multidisciplinary approach to bring microfabrication into all aspects of the…

The main task of the examination is to establish environmental issues in the didactic materials for primary and secondary school in Republic of Serbia. Environmental issues in the secondary school curriculum in Serbia, according to the current educational curricula and educational programs, is limited to general subjects (chemistry and biology…

This article reviews 24 years of research focused on science education for students with learning and other disabilities. Our results are based on 53 articles from 2 relevant databases. We hereby present and discuss the results of the most popular topics investigated, which include: constructivism, exploratory learning, hands-on activities,…

At Bentley College, a four-year private institution located in Waltham, Massachusetts, over 90 percent of students major in business disciplines. For decades, Bentley's strong arts and sciences departments have battled for a place within an overwhelmingly career-focused curriculum, and great strides have been made to change the traditional…

STEM--science, technology, engineering, and mathematics--is critical to and supportive of many education reforms being undertaken today, from adoption of common internationally benchmarked standards to better teacher preparation to enhanced coordination across the entire K-20 education system. In fact, STEM is not a separate reform movement at…

Discusses English curricula in the area of tribology, the science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion. (MLH)

Describes the Cornell Nature Study Movement developed in 1897 which has contemporary significance in that it was an interdisciplinary approach to teaching science based on leaflets published quarterly on natural history. (BR)

Recommends that general education be established with science as a basis for man's view of himself and of his future and how these influenced, directly or indirectly, his past values and his present situation. (BR)

Presents a mini-lesson and describes the "Calendars and Thinking Logically" curriculum designed to combat the belief that mystical powers are associated with numbers on the calendar and to introduce the complex interplay of physical phenomena, religion, and science in an interdisciplinary way. The curriculum is designed for adolescents…

Presents an argument in favor of interdisciplinary science education at the university level for engineering students. (SL)

Described and assessed is the Interdepartmental Program in Engineering at the University of Rochester which allows engineering students the opportunity to design their own curriculum. (SL)

This paper, prepared for a British conference on Modern Mathematics and the Teaching of Science, explores the problem of the relationships between mathematics and science curricula. Four hypotheses concerning the cause of "worsening" of the problem are posed. (SD)

The course was designed: (1) to broaden the base for chemistry majors to build their courses; (2) to illustrate how some chemistry principles are applied to real situations; and (3) to serve as an introduction to geochemistry for geology majors. (DF)