This booklet provides ideas for a multidisciplinary storytelling course designed to train fifth grade students to act as tutors for second grade students. The various sections of the booklet contain the following: the rationale and objectives for the course, hints on planning the course, an introduction to storytelling, suggestions for teaching…

Attempts by the faculty at Baker University to introduce American undergraduates to the history of the Western tradition as part of their general education are described. The strengths and weaknesses of the Western civilization course and of the core curriculum formerly offered by the college are analyzed. The rationale for the interdisciplinary…

This comprehensive document is the result of statewide planning for the implementation of metric education in Virginia schools. An introduction discusses the rationale, needs, and continuing objectives for metric education. An organizational structure for metric education in Virginia is outlined. Guidelines for administrative planning are…

This booklet is intended for integrating environmental education into the school curriculum. It is divided into five sections. The overview section establishes the philosophical basis for environmental education. Section II, the largest section of the book, consists of a series of profiles which, in the case of this booklet, are brief portraits of…

The status of the sociology of sport within the discipline of sociology is explored. Review of the subfield since 1971 indicates an increase in the number of publications and communication relating to sport sociology topics. It is hypothesized, however, that sport sociology will not in the near future receive equal acceptance within sociology with…

The primary goal of this collection of classroom activities is to produce environmentally-aware citizens. The skills and concepts taught through use of the kit are intended to permit the teacher to integrate diverse concepts of the environment into classroom teaching. Activities are divided into three main segments. The first segment, Ecological…

This guide provides instructions for the use of computer modeling to teach environmental studies or other subjects which may be difficult to teach. The computer modeling method described does not require input of quantitative data and does not produce a numerical model. The technique produces a qualitative model which portrays present or future…

One of the newest theories of reading states that readers rely on graphic, syntactic, and semantic cues to get meaning from a text. In the area of syntax, some recent studies not only support its importance but seem to indicate that sentence combining exercises used in writing classes may improve students' syntax sufficiently to help them in…

This collection of teacher-developed material is designed to integrate environmental education into various disciplines taught in public schools. Units contain an overview, list of needed materials and equipment, background information, description of the activity, and discussion of related activity or a list of questions pertinent to the unit.…

This document contains 20 devices which can be made by junior high and high school students. The products of these student projects can be employed in the study of the environment and range in topic from the study of biochemical oxygen demand in water to the construction of a back pack. Materials used in each project are generally readily…

This collection of study units focuses on the study of the ecology of land habitats. Considered are such topics as map reading, field techniques, forest ecosystem, birds, insects, small mammals, soils, plant ecology, preparation of terrariums, air pollution, photography, and essentials of an environmental studies program. Each unit contains…

The Institute for the Study of Sparsely Populated Areas is a multidisciplinary research unit which acts to coordinate, further, and initiate studies of the economic and social conditions of sparsely populated areas. Short summaries of the eight studies completed in the session of 1977-78 indicate work in such areas as the study of political life…

A strategic intelligence unit and a research activities unit were the two main components of a project to undertake inderdisciplinary discussions and studies of problems associated with vocational and technical education in nonmetropolitan areas. Reasons for an interdisciplinary attack were: (1) changes affecting town and rural residents including…

An interdisciplinary course to be offered in grade 12 to serve as a capstone to the efforts of social studies, business education, home economics, health education, and industrial arts, in preparing citizens to be wise consumers, was developed by a team of teacher consultants and curriculum specialists. The materials were tested and revised after…

A series of educational seminars was held in New Haven, Connecticut by a group of two psychiatrists and eight principals. These meetings were organized following a community crisis over racial balancing of the public schools. It was felt that an inter-professional collaboration would be a fruitful means of finding educational solutions to…