This report is the result of a workshop conducted by the Committee on Seismology of the National Research Council to review the field of seismology, its importance in many and diverse areas of national interest, and its future course. This report is intended to be useful not only to the scientific and technical communities but also to the…

Presents abstracts of innovative activities of students in grades 7 through 12. Projects include community surveys, student or teacher initiated home/school experiments, scientist-supervised research by high school students, community and school service projects. (EB)

Describes an ecology laboratory summer school designed to help eight- to eleven-year-olds become more aware of their environment. Presents the approaches taken in examining various major questions relating man, animals and plants. (EB)

Since man is no longer limited to the terrestrial sphere but reaching toward other worlds in exploration, geography as a science should no longer be restricted to its terrestrial limitations. (Author/ND)

A sample outline of topics and student activities that a teacher may follow in presenting a unit on forestry. (Author)

Discusses the use of a blackboard demonstration and a vacuum pump apparatus to explain that, in adiabatic meteorological processes, rising air is cooled and sinking air is heated. (MLH)

Discusses ways in which student exercises with disposable beverage containers can illustrate, by analogy, such things as rock surveys, animal territoriality, energy conservation, and mechanical weathering. (MLH)

Urges that geology instruction incorporate other disciplines to increase the relevancy of geology. Suggested benefits of this method include an increased retention of geological concepts, a decreased need for student memorization, and an increase in the instructor's awareness and knowledge of geology. (MLH)

Presented is a student manual designed for the Wisconsin Vocational, Technical and Adult Education Groundwater and Distribution Training Course. This program introduces waterworks operators-in-training to basic skills and knowledge required for the operation of a groundwater distribution waterworks facility. Arranged according to the general order…

This guide is intended to provide an opportunity for students to work with weather symbols used for reporting weather. Also included are exercises in location of United States cities by latitude and longitude, measurement of distances in miles and kilometers, and prediction of weather associated with various types of weather fronts. (RE)

The changes which occurred in man's view of the solar system from the time of Ptolemy to that of Galileo are presented. Contained is a brief review of the chain of events which resulted in the acceptance of a heliocentric system. Ptolomy's theory is described and a diagram illustrates the paths of the epicycle of Mars according to his geocentric…

THE TENTH IN A SERIES OF 17 VOLUMES, THIS VOLUME PROVIDES THE SIXTH GRADE 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. THIS VOLUME, 6B, IS ONE OF THE THREE COMPRISING THE SIXTH GRADE SUPPLEMENT, AND CONTAINS A RESOURCE UNIT…