This article evaluates law instruction materials that can be combined in an interdisciplinary way in the hope that secondary students will be thoroughtly familiar with the law and, therefore, resist injustice. By using an inquiry approach into case studies students delve into controversial social problems that exist in urban America. (SM)

Interdisciplinary social studies units for grades k-12 are analyzed. Inquiry is the dominant teaching strategy in the materials but emphasis is also on concept teaching.

Social science curriculum is subject of this issue. (DS)

Affirms that the inquiry procedure, most suitable when investigative skills are needed, requires adequate curriculum design and materials, research resources, and teacher preparation. (DS)

Inquiry-discovery learning of processes involved in determining transportation patterns form the core of this teaching model. Promotes understanding of human behavior and geographic change and is sufficiently general for use at several teaching levels. (Author/JB)

Describes the Individualized Science" program being developed as part of the Individually Prescribed Instruction program of the University of Pittsburgh Learning Research and Development Center. The use planned for mainstream" and alternative pathways" is described and illustrated by examples of units. (AL)

The creative-aesthetic approach to educational stimulation accelerates the development of question-asking skills, of the 5-year olds tested, more than the traditional kindergarten approach. (Author/MF)

Describes a program which trained and assisted teachers to initiate inquiry lessons in their own classrooms, and then assist other teachers in their schools implement similar lessons. Reports evaluation of the program, and states implications for teacher education. (AL)

A model lesson is presented based on the four basic operations of inquiry: defining a problem; hypothesizing answers; testing hypotheses; and, drawing conclusions. The lesson begins with the question, what are the people of the world like, refined to, what are the Hausa like. (DB)