This compilation is one of a series produced through the combined efforts of the United States Office of Education/Environmental Education, coordinators for environmental education in the various states, and the ERIC Center for Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education, in an attempt to collect and detail environmental education efforts…

The purpose of this document is to provide students and counselors with a guide to the academic institutions offering courses in the marine sciences. One hundred thirty-eight institutions offering at least 25 semester hours in the marine field are listed both alphabetically and geographically by States. The information relating to each institution…

The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate an auto-instructional individualized physical science (chemistry) course appropriate for prospective elementary school teachers. Thirteen core and several optional lessons were developed using guidelines and standards proposed by the Commission on Science Education of the American Association…

Reported is a comparison of the effectiveness of two different laboratory programs for 2 teachers and 186 students enrolled in a 1968-69 physical science course at Wisconsin State University - Whitewater. The control group consisted of students performing exercises from a laboratory manual, and the experimental group was assigned to an open-ended…

The main report describes the procedures followed, difficulties encountered, and results obtained by a faculty and student summer task force attempting to design and produce course materials for an introductory college course in man-environment relations, and plan an undergraduate curriculum in environmental studies. Data on changes in…

Reports and recommendations prepared by working groups on "The Structure of Chemistry,""Graduate Education in Chemistry and Beyond,""Preparing Chemists to Meet Society's Future Needs,""Chemistry for Citizens,""International Aspects of Chemical Education" and the text of two plenary addresses, "Education for Change" and "New Problems Need New…

This report contains the three position papers presented at a conference on interdisciplinary science education as well as edited transcripts of some of the discussion. The position papers state the necessity for such courses, describe a particular college level course for non-science majors, and present a theoretical account of an attempt to…

Two alternate subject-matter units were presented by printed text, printed text with supplementary programmed items, printed text with supplementary laboratory manipulations and observations, taped audio program with supplementary programmed items, or taped audio-tutorial program with supplementary laboratory manipulations and observations during…

A study on individual differences in problem solving approach and their relationships to various learning-related parameters was conducted with a random sample of 25 subjects enrolled in an introductory physics course utilizing instruction through audio-tutorial methods. The subjects received interviews consisting of four problems in energy…

Student achievement and attitude changes resulting from two different approaches to teaching of physical science were studied among 94 non-science freshmen enrolled at Valley City State College during the 1970-71 winter quarter. Thirty-four students were taught the laboratory-oriented Physical Science for Nonscience Students (PSNS) Project course…

A study of the objectives and teaching practices of an introductory college physics course was conducted by personally interviewing 24 instructors in six Oklahoma colleges and universities and audiotaping their 45 classes. The instructors' questions in classes were cross-classified by type and purpose. The question-types included directive,…

As one of three audiovisual media in the U. S. Naval Academy Self-Paced Physics Course, 16 cassette tapes relating to lectures of mechanics, electricity, and magnetism are prepared for enriching and supplementary purposes. The material is designed to be used in combination with the talking book where illustrations, formulas, behavioral objectives,…

This is the second in a two volume set (see also SE 013 455) which displays what the people at the Earth Science Teacher Preparation Project (ESTPP) value about learning, learners, themselves, and their role in helping learners. It records, mainly in their own words, how some people in colleges and secondary schools feel about education and how…

An experiment on sound waves, developed for non-science majors in a college physics course, is described. The student investigates the interference of two sound waves and measures and wavelength as he uses a prerecorded tape and a cassette player. The student is tutored by the cassette tape recorder, which also produces the overlapping sound…

The problems relating to education and training of meteorological personnel in Africa are considered in the papers contained in this conference report. The papers are presented in seven sessions and pertain to the following: introductory lectures; various categories of meteorological personnel to be trained, including applications of meteorology…