The emotional and physical development of children entering secondary schools at age eleven affects their ability to adjust to new learning patterns. While teachers and curriculum planners must accommodate their needs, the children too must respond and communicate in order to realize their potential. (JB)

Discusses theories and innovations that have developed the content of industrial arts on the secondary school level. Program name, program administrator, and his address are given for 26 innovative programs. (GB)

The scope and sequence of industrial arts collegiate undergraduate programs are developed. (Author/GB)

The author feels that personal concerns about death, natural or otherwise, cause anxieties which often color and mask additional personality problems. The course outlined deals with student obsession and depression about death, and seeks to encourage other health educators to include the study of death in their own classes. (CJ)

Reviews the philosophical basis and rationale for the secondary school level biology methods course at Mankato State College. Course emphasizes these topics and activities: science curriculum developments, textbooks, student presentations, laboratories; lesson plans, demonstrations, continuing project, evaluation, controversial issues; curriculum…

Describes a method for specifying precise course objectives for undergraduate electrical engineering curriculum, and suggests treating curriculum design as a system engineering problem. (Author/WM)

This article proposes a different way for curriculum developers to visualize the curriculum-building process. The author suggests a method to assist faculty in incorporating the ideas that authorities in the field have set forth. (Author/CT)

The syllabus for a refresher course on the physiology and biochemistry of receptors (presented at the 1983 American Physiological Society meeting) is provided. Topics considered include receptor regulation, structural/functional aspects of receptors for insulin and insulin-like growth factors, calcium channel inhibitors, and role of lipoprotein…

Empirical research results are likely to be useful in introductory sociology courses when they are very true, easily demonstrable, about causal systems, sociological, not economic, and thought-provoking. Five examples of teachable empirical findings are presented. (RM)