With a grant through Indiana University's Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center, the authors developed an online, five-week unit that discusses the cultural and ecological "worlds" of central Asia, specifically the countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. There are two main ideas…

Identifies common areas of interest for the sciences and social studies. Explains effective clarification strategies and methods of focusing on value conflicts. Two such methods, the analytical model and moral reasoning model, are explained and examples of instructional materials provided for each. (GS)

Pennsylvania's Department of Education provides eight energy education modules that cover different secondary school disciplines. This introductory publication is designed to accompany each of the eight subject-area modules. It contains background information for teachers on topics ranging from energy's definition and past uses to nuclear waste…

Against the background of the current crisis in science education, discusses various aspects of science/technology/society (STS) curriculum and instruction, including the need for new definition of science education, social science education and STS, and STS curriculum materials. Also provides a framework for educating about STS. (JN)

Described are indoor and outdoor lessons for intermediate and junior high students. These lessons are intended to help students understand how the physical and cultural needs of man are directly related to the environment. Learning through involvement in direct personal experience is emphasized with students encouraged to role play as early…

Reviews "Basic Genetics: A Human Approach" (Basic Science Curriculum Study), "Difficult Choices about Environmental Protection" (Public Agenda Foundation), and "Raindrops" (Modular Science/Technology/Society). (DH)

Describes a program called "Society-Environment-Science" which has been offered for three years at Lansdowne Senior High School (Baltimore, Maryland). It is a one semester, interdisciplinary course that is team-taught by a social-studies teacher and a science teacher. (JR)

Presented in this guide are classroom and outdoor lessons intended to assist high school teachers in implementing environmental education objectives. Provided for each objective are background information, up to 15 related activities, and teacher questions designed to facilitate students' investigations. Among the learning strategies used are…

The publication, referred to as a unit on "Modern Dilemmas," was completed in 1969 and is part of a Modern World History pilot project integrating areas of art, literature, philosophy, and science into the social studies curriculum. The unit seeks to explore all of the facets of science as part of man's search for meaning, but because of time…

Lists books, pamphlets, and articles of interest to teachers addressing "science, technology, and society" in the curriculum. This extensive bibliography includes international sources as well as those from public and private groups. (DH)

Briefly traces the development and planning of a one-week interdisciplinary field course for high school students which focuses on the ecology, geology, history, and culture of Big Bend National Park, Texas. Provides a narrative of each day's events. (DC)

Discusses the need for a science-and-society course to fill the educational gap in school science, suggests how it should be taught, and presents a possible course syllabus. (SK)

Designed as an interdisciplinary, supplemental teaching guide, this document provides fundamental information about energy supply, use, and conservation and related learning activities for secondary students. Eight units address the following topics: energy history, petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, alternative sources, energy…

This teacher's manual is one of a series designed to support "general level" program development for intermediate/junior high school science, emphasizing the relationship between science and society. The main body of the manual deals with teaching about heat in the context of home heating systems. In addition, a brief treatment of the…