This resource provides tools needed to create compelling booktalks featuring outstanding young adult novels that are mainstays in library collections. For each of the 100 titles selected, there is background information on the book and the author, a list of principal characters, a detailed plot summary, critical comment and notes on suitability,…

Exotic species are organisms transported by humans, wildlife, wind, and water into regions where they did not historically exist. This ERIC Digest describes available materials and resources for teaching and learning about these exotic species. Sixteen Internet sources are provided along with six videotape resources. The digest also provides…

This 23-minute videotape for grades 5-8, presents the myriad of animal life that exists on the planet. Students can view and perform experiments and investigations that help explain animal traits and habits. Students learn about the incredible variety of mammals and how they survive in different environments while discovering which characteristics…

This packet provides information on the balance between the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker and modern forestry in Texas. A set of classroom activities about the Red-cockaded Woodpecker and its habitat for grades 3-6, and a booklet, a pamphlet, and a poster are featured. Sections of the booklet include: (1) "The Red-cockaded…

This textbook forms the basis of instruction upon the natural history of animals in the secondary schools of France. The present work treats the subject of natural history in a manner adapted to the needs of secondary schools, using methods found by experience to excite most interest on the part of the pupil. In the translation the plan of the…

Briefly reviews the relevant literature on human prenatal effects, describes some of the possible designs for such studies; and discusses some of the methodological problem areas: sample choice, measurement of prenatal variables, monitoring of labor and delivery, and neonatal assessment. (CS)

Discusses human nature and behavior and indicates that, with the rate of ecosocial change accelerating, understanding the nature of man has become a precondition to the enhancement of human individuality and to the very survival of our species. (Author/JR)

Discusses seals in terms of their classification, ecological influences, their pelage, moult and thermoregulation, respiratory and vascular systems, predation and mortality. (JR)

Results of psychological experiments usinganimals are presented. Use of the animal-human analogy to generalize these findings to humans is discussed. Ethological studies are interpreted in light of the total environment and situation involved. The completeness of the ethological model compared to the animal-experimental model is discussed. (LS)

Monkeys with a severe visual acuity deficit were reared in social isolation to determine factors related to sterotyped movements, which have been observed in visually handicapped persons. (Author/MC)

Reviews theories of language origin with particular reference to Morris Swadesh's The Origin and Diversification of Language'', Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1971. (RS)

Describes curriculum changes needed in one high school when enrollment zoomed in agriculture. (MU)

Article reviews evidence on the effects of contrast and matching, that these effects are related, and that both effects are reactions to the same independent variable. (Author/RK)