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Peer reviewedRudolph, Emanuel D. – BioScience, 1988
This article reviews the treatment of lichens in 93 different introductory North American botany textbooks. Topics considered are questions of relationship, independent survival, reproduction, definition, and scientific name. The author reports that treatment is uneven and often includes incomplete or erroneous information which may persist…
Descriptors: Botany, College Science, Higher Education, Science Education
Peer reviewedBeck, Isabel L.; McKeown, Margaret G. – Educational Researcher, 1988
Focuses on the content and presentation of instructional sequences on the American Revolution in four commercial fifth-grade social studies textbook series. Discusses problems with content, learning objectives, background, and explanation. (FMW)
Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Content Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 5
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1987
Summarized is a report by Jane Burnette titled "Adapting Instructional Materials for Mainstreamed Students," which describes federally sponsored projects to develop publishable supplements and adaptations of popular textbooks for use with mainstreamed handicapped students. The modifications were made to elementary curricula in science…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Educational Media
