The Australian Science Education Project is producing material designed for use in grades 7-10 of Australian schools. This is the first trial version of a unit providing instruction in microscopy. Illustrations of each step in setting up, focusing, preparation of mounts, microscopic measurement, and cleaning and packing the microscope are included…

This manual was prepared for the purpose of stimulating the development of effective unit operations and unit processes laboratory courses in environmental engineering. Laboratory activities emphasizing physical operations, biological, and chemical processes are designed for various educational and equipment levels. An introductory section reviews…

This competency-based teacher education program is oriented toward preparing teachers for urban schools. Assuming that student teachers must be knowledgeable about current socioeconomic factors in their working environment, this program aims at developing these competencies using learning modules, learning teams, and teacher education centers. The…

The Elementary Teacher Education Project in Compensatory Education was instituted in 1967-68 at San Fernando Valley State College for the purpose of preparing teachers to work effectively with the disadvantaged at the elementary school level. Main features of the program included student teaching and intern teaching in disadvantaged urban areas;…

The purpose of the study was to assess the value of an experimental briefing-teacher aide program. Forty-one sophomore and junior level mathematics majors who volunteered to participate in the program were divided into two groups, with one group exposed to nine briefing sessions and one group not. A pretest, posttest design was used with the tests…

The 144 worksheets contained in these two packages (one package for each of the first two years of a Scottish science course based on the syllabus developed by the Working Party on Secondary School Science and described in SE 015 432) have been designed to suit a broad ability range of students between the ages of about 11 and 14. The sheets…

This booklet is one of a series intended to provide explicit instructions for the collection of oceanographic data and samples at sea. The methods and procedures described have been used by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and found reliable and up-to-date. Instructions are given for taking air samples on board ship to determine the…

The course in Applied Number is designed to be covered with the course in Pure Number (see SE 012 723 to 725). The aims of this course are stated to be: "the development of (1) comparison: as exemplified by measurement; (2) exploration of the environment; (3) skills: among these, estimation and computation; and (4) language: as a medium for…

This guide is a continuation of SE 012 726. Each section is organized under the same six headings: length, volume and capacity, weight, time, money, and spatial relations. A further section describes work on statistics and graphs which may be spread over the entire interval covered by this guide. A great number of activities are suggested, leading…

This manual, one of a series prepared for the guidance of research workers conducting studies as part of the International Biological Programme, contains recommended methods for the analysis of fresh water. The techniques are grouped in the following major sections: Sample Taking and Storage; Conductivity, pH, Oxidation-Reduction Potential,…

This government document presents a report of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, ninety-second Congress, regarding bill S. 1113, the National Environmental Center Act of 1971. The bill, originally introduced as the National Environmental Laboratory Act of 1971 provides for the establishment of a parent agency, the National…

THIS STUDY REPORTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATHEMATICS PROGRAM WHICH INCLUDED STUDENT SELF-STUDY FEATURES. STUDENTS IN GRADES SEVEN AND EIGHT WERE PROVIDED WITH SELF-STUDY MATERIALS. OBSERVATIONS WERE MADE OF STAFF PATTERNS IN LEARNING. PRE- AND POST-TESTS WERE ADMINISTERED TO THE ENTIRE STUDENT POPULATION AND THE RESULTS ANALYZED. ANALYSES WERE…

THIS REPORT OF A SYMPOSIUM PRESENTED AT THE CHICAGO AREA CONVENTION IN FEBRUARY 1966 OUTLINES PROJECT "MODELS", A NOVEL PROGRAM DESIGNED TO "MAXIMIZE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTATION OF LEARNING IN THE SCHOOLS." THE INTRODUCTION RELATED THE NEED FOR NEW APPROACHES TO IMPROVING EDUCATION THROUGH RESEARCH TO THE…

THIS RESEARCH ATTEMPTED TO RELATE PROBLEM-SOLVING BEHAVIOR TO LANGUAGE BY FINDING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN (1) PROBLEM SOLVING AND LANGUAGE TYPE AND (2) PROBLEM SOLVING AND CATEGORIES OF BILINGUALISM. ENGLISH-SPEAKING MONOLINGUAL AND TYPES OF BILINGUAL NAVAHO EIGHTH-GRADE PUPILS WERE COMPARED ON PROBLEM-SOLVING TASKS. IQ AND READING COMPREHENSION…

Students responded favorably to a new approach to laboratory instruction of pathogenic bacteriology. For each of five course units students were given behavioral objectives, an autotutorial program using color slides and a script, and a formal laboratory exercise. Results included a saving of student time and opportunity for more individualized…