An introductory course is designed with relevance for directly instilling into the students a sense of the unity and coherence of chemical ideas. The sequence also has the flavor'' of a research project. (DF)

Contains a description of an open-ended laboratory physics course for college freshmen and sophomores planning to become elementary school teachers. (CP)

Presents tabulations of data from a questionnaire survey of English Colleges of Education. Data concern the position of biology as a component of courses for trainee teachers. (AL)

Suggests a new subject for the modern undergraduate program. The new subject should be chemical measurement, and its short definition might be the method of describing the properties and reactions of chemicals quantitatively." (Author/TS)

Article describes a special course developed for child welfare and concludes that a heavy emphasis on field observation proved a successful educational method. (ML)

Describes a geology course for earth science education majors offered by The Ohio State University in cooperation with Colorado State University. Relates the course activities around Boulder, Colorado and a camping trip through the Colorado Rockies. (RR)

Brief descriptions of several of the laboratory experiments which have been incorporated into an acoustics course for music majors. Includes vibratory motion and sound generation, nature, speed, and pitch of sound, spectrum analysis and electronic synthesis of musical sound and some conventional sound experiments. (Author/TS)

Describes an intermediate level mechanics course based on the solution of problems by computer. The nature of these problems and their solution by computer is discussed, and the sources of the programs indicated. (Author/TS)

Describes the content and use of Scientific Writing for Graduate Students: A Manual on the Teaching of Scientific Writing" prepared by the Committee on Graduate Training in Scientific Writing of the Council of Biology Editors. (AL)