Discusses two-year experience of conducting an interdisciplinary undergraduate program which integrates liberal arts into technical curricula and emphasize non-conventional learning processes and evaluation. The purpose is to prepare students with abilities to develop technology needed by society and to minimize its side effects harmful to the…

Discusses some aspects of the implementation of student projects in physical science teaching, involving timing, facilities, choice of projects, and student evaluation. Included are descriptions of five students' experience with project work. (CC)

In a class project students made video tape productions of the beginnings of the Civil War from two points of view. (GB)

Education is tumbling aimlessly into a future in which the greatest acts of immorality will be those in which technological change occurs without thorough examination of consequences. Objectives derived from humanism and existentialism direct industrial arts education toward an examination of the technology; specific applications emphasize "doing…

Discusses a program, consisting of individual conventional experiments and group special projects, along with lectures in analytical courses during the last six to eight weeks of a semester. Concludes that students' different aspects of capability are encouraged after receiving the course. (CC)

Discusses the arrangement, specifications, and operation of a setup designed for use as a student project to record radio storms, continuous level of the quiet sun, and scientific satellites operating near the amateur 2-m band. Included is an example of records of solar activity during 1968-73. (CC)

Suggests the use of individually paced instruction, projects, and directed individual study as teaching methods to encourage students' responsibility for learning. (CC)

Author describes how his fifth grade students learn economic principles by forming a community'' with its own currency and businesses. (SP)

Describes a group project to study uses of water in a household situation. Project can be undertaken by students of different levels in schools. (PS)

The organization of a project on the topic of communications is detailed, and examples of some of the workcards used with the project are provided. Two open'' problems along with some student responses are also included. For the first article in this series, see Volume 1 Number 7 pp9-10, November 1972. (DT)

Describes a high school TV journalism activity: producing a weekly 30-minute local newscast on cable television. (SP)

Author describes unit he taught to his high school classes prior to the 1964 elections. (SP)