This handbook is designed to help teachers, supervisors, club leaders, and in-service directors lead workshops in energy education. It is based primarily on materials produced by Project for an Energy-Enriched Curriculum (PEEC), but can be modified for use with other materials. The handbook contains six chapters including: (1) Introducing the PEEC…

The monograph emphasizes the need for university-sponsored programs for professionals serving ethnic communities. The programs could consist of undergraduate and inservice courses in teacher education. The courses should teach students and teachers to accept and understand cultural differences, to recognize the right of such differences to exist,…

The paper offers recommendations for an ethnic studies curriculum at the elementary school level which would be interdisciplinary in nature and integrate the basic skills of reading, writing, and critical thinking. In the social studies, for example, concepts of cultural diversity and universality can be presented in simple form in the early…

These background papers are written to provide information for the teacher on technical problems that might arise as students carry on various USMES investigations. Background papers are also written which include information about the types of investigations which may provide good opportunities for learning in specific areas. This set includes…

A pilot project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and a state college educational trust fund to improve writing in the humanities and across the curriculum is described in this paper. Also presented are the obstacles confronted in establishing the project, a seven-point strategy developed to counter those obstacles, the…

This collection of materials supports the teaching of solar energy concepts in the context of secondary school science. Included in this collection are a basic teacher's guide to activities involved in the curriculum; a discussion of multi-disciplinary extensions of solar energy education by subject area; a section on hardware needed for the…

Described is a course or workshop designed to sensitize individuals to their roles as participants in the natural and man-made environment. The course can be used as a college course for pre-professional or general training, as a pre-service or in-service course for teachers, or as a workshop for adults. The learning experiences included in this…

This paper discusses attitudes toward technical-writing courses, presenting four reasons that some people view those courses with disdain and demonstrating why those reasons are inappropriate. These attitudes reflect disdain for what many people take to be the dull, unimaginative, nonhumanistic nature of the subject. In refutation, the paper…

This paper reveals ways in which teachers can use roles and role playing to facilitate children's understanding and expression, by giving an example of a drama in which the teacher assumed a role. In this dramatic situation, a group of eight-year-olds and nine-year-olds was asked to assume the roles of American Indians whose valley was threatened…

A study involving 231 principals, 155 school psychologists, 155 special education teachers, and 216 regular education teachers was conducted to investigate Ss' expectations regarding their own and others' roles in the team serving handicapped students. Members indicated whether or not each activity from a list of 25 was appropriate to their role…

This guide contains learning activities in environmental education developed by teachers and intended for use at the elementary or junior high school levels. Topics covered include: water, esthetics, air, soil and sediment, solid waste, energy, noise, population, and transportation. Generally, each activity contains an introduction, a listing of…

The traditional team concept in rehabilitation is a differentiated team in which each member performs a different function. In practice, such teams are rarely cooperative and their additive services are disjointed. Presented is the philosophic rationale for the revitalization of a large rehabilitation center serving mental patients. Reorganization…

This is one of several study guides on contemporary problems produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science with support of the National Science Foundation. This document was a working draft on the topic for the lectures. Included are sections on the following topics: (1) Biosociology and Behavior; (2) The Social Bond; (3)…

An English course tailored to the needs of non-English majors has been developed and implemented at West Texas State University. Students from the business world as well as from a wide variety of disciplines participate in the course, which empahsizes the principles of communication. In addition to a text specifically written for the course,…

This document contains a series of population learning activities designed to supplement a K-12 curriculum. The activities are interdisciplinary in nature and include topics in science, mathematics, social studies, language arts, fine arts, and home economics. Besides a division of activities according to grade and subject matter, the activities…