Describes the two functions of teaching and learning processes: short-range training and long-range education, and suggests that the course had better be carried out first via the Keller plan and then via lectures on exciting materials of the subject matter. (CC)

Describes a simple manual simulation exercise used in a college sophomore course in environmental biology. Demonstrates ways in which biotic potential and other physiological and behavioral characteristics of living organisms may interact with environmental factors to produce the kind of population behavior actually observed in the real world. (JR)

Presents the view that laboratory work has been overemphasized. Need to critically examine effects on students of this practice. Some objections to current laboratory hours include irrelevance to student's future careers, recipe-type experiments, and conflicts with main academic objectives. (PS)

The influence of the Nuffield project should become widespread. Undergraduate courses have to be modified, science teacher training programs will be different and chemical industry will also be influenced by the Nuffield project. The individuals receiving Nuffield oriented instruction should be better prepared for independent thinking and working.…

Describes a course attempting to educate people in environmental and urban matters. It is divided into two sections: One section for geology and the other science majors; the other for non-science majors who had not taken a college-level laboratory science. (DF)

Explains vast applications of simple harmonic motion in many fields of physics. With examples of 16 phenomena governed by the law, the author points out in conclusion that phenomena which may look like simple harmonic motion may not be in reality. (PS)

A study was conducted to determine the relationship of visualization abilities to achievement in chemistry. Two freshmen and one senior level class of chemistry majors were included. Two visualization tests and a chemistry examination at the end of the semester were conducted. A stronger relationship was reported between senior chemistry status…

Differences in the biology curricula of two-year and four-year colleges pose many problems for both students and teachers. A program to coordinate all biology teachers throughout the state for resolving such differences is described. (PS)

Describes a one-semester junior course with emphases placed on students' use of instructions designed by their peers in doing laboratory exercises, and indicates the feasibility of such a plan to a rather small range of group sizes. (CC)