Described is a course on technology for undergraduate, non-technical students at the University of Utah. The course is designed to acquaint the students with the effects of technology and technological change on lifestyles and the issues which, when they arise, will require decision-making by intelligent citizenry. Materials necessary for…

Included are two sections contributing to understanding of the model: (1) Orientation; and (2) Content Specifications. The model is intended to provide the user with a frame of reference within which to formulate and plan environmental education and training products which: (1) develop grade K-9 natural science teachers' understanding of…

This EPIE report contains parallel, common language descriptions of 26 life, physical, and earth science offerings for junior high school students from nine commercial publishers. Materials have been designed for one-year courses and have copyright dates from 1975-1980. Information for each program is presented under the following headings: (1)…

This text is the first of a series of six bilingual handbooks especially designed for the Indochinese student in American high schools. Five of the supplements are in Vietnamese and each deals with a specific subject-area: chemisty, physics, biology, mathematics or U.S. history. The sixth book is in Khmer and is a supplement for U.S. history. The…

THIS INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM, A ONE-YEAR COURSE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SEEKS TO REMEDY LONG-STANDING INADEQUACIES IN AMERICAN ENGINEERING EDUCATION, WHICH HAVE EXISTED BECAUSE ENGINEERING TEACHERS' HAVE LACKED AWARENESS OF (1) INTRICACIES OF THE LEARNING PROCESS, AND (2) ADVANCES IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE RELATED TO THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS. IN THE…

THIS VOLUME PROVIDES THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER WITH A GUIDE TO THE REORGANIZED SCIENCE CURRICULUM OF THE MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE MATERIALS ARE INTENDED TO BE AUGMENTED AND REVISED AS THE NEED ARISES. A CHART INDICATES CONCEPTS TO BE TAUGHT IN GRADES K-3 FOR EACH OF THE FOUR AREAS AROUND WHICH THE PROGRAM IS DESIGNED. THE AREAS ARE (1) THE…

An attempt was made to examine three of the existing science curriculum materials for elementary schools and establish the necessary competencies of teachers who can teach them, using the 1970 guidelines proposed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for pre-service preparation in science for elementary school teachers. The…

A project to develop an automated index of information about existing computerized instruction in the health sciences is reported and described. Methods of obtaining and indexing materials for the catalog are detailed. Entry and recovery techniques and selection of descriptors are described. Results to date show that the data base contains…

Freshmen cadets in an enriched mediated honors course in General Physics achieved slightly less on a 40 common-item criteria test than cadets in a traditionally taught honors course in the same subject, although the mediated course included approximately 40 percent more content in the area of modern physics. In the enriched course, audiovisual…

British science curriculum improvement projects on the elementary and secondary school levels are reviewed in this volume to indicate their implications for the development of second-generation programs in the United States. Included in the British second-generation program category are: the Scottish integrated courses, Nuffield combined science,…

The report describes general education courses offered at Wilde Lake High School--a school that maintains a flexible environment conducive to learning and hopefully fosters individual development and growth. The aim of the school is to create an environment that helps students: adjust and cope with their environment outside the school; develop…

Presented here are ideas for multidisciplinary environmental education. The suggestions are examples of ways in which environmentally beneficial learnings can be incorporated into the existing curriculum, and are intended to assist in the development of learning packages. Among the five overall objectives listed are: 1) to develop personal…

This evaluation report investigates the effectiveness of the Unified Science and Mathematics for Elementary Schools (USMES) program during the academic year, 1973-74. USMES is a curricular program designed to develop the problem solving abilities of students attending grades one through eight. The goal of the program is the development of 32…

This teaching guide contains part one of the four parts of the first year of the Portland Project, a three-year secondary integrated science curriculum sequence. This part involves the student in a series of activities intended to increase his understanding of his perceptual abilities and their limitations. Organization and classification as parts…

This teacher's guide contains part two of the four-part first year Portland Project, a three-year secondary integrated science curriculum sequence. This part involves the student with unifying principles essential for deeper understanding of the concept of energy. Confidence in the atomic nature of matter is built by relating heat in terms of…