Describes elementary level simulation resulting in products which participants sell to fellow students. The project includes basic lessons in economics, forming a corporation, applying for and receiving a loan, shopping trips, production, advertising, and market analysis. (KC)

Proposes (1) the merging of foreign language and literature departments and (2) an increased American representation in these departments with a reduction in foreign teachers. (AM)

A learning cycle approach to undergraduate instruction implemented in a variety of subjects at Metropolitan State College in Denver is described. An experimental group demonstrated significant gains in critical thinking and cognitive skill development as well as improved retention using a framework based on Piaget's stages of cognitive…

A basis is given for interdisciplinary activities for students studying transformational geometry. (MK)

A census-taking activity that can be conducted by elementary students is described. Sample data sheets and report forms are included. (MK)

Describes an attempt to combine secondary English instruction emphasizing United States literature with science and history by finding "common ground" between these disciplines in (1) the separation of truth from falsehood and (2) logical thinking. Biographies combined history and literature, and science fiction combined science and English;…

The rationale, description, and evaluation of a course about adolescence taught to university students. This interdisciplinary approach includes materials from literature, philosophy, history, and the arts. Primary source material is extensively used. (Author/MLF)

Outlines the interdisciplinary problems of communication and how such problems might effectively be addressed in the graduate curricula. (JMF)

Recommends an interdisciplinary approach to writing a term paper about James Hilton's "Lost Horizon." (TJ)

This graduate course in educational trends was designed to provide an overview of educational developments through an interdisciplinary approach to curriculum innovations. (MM)

Interdisciplinary and intercultural aspects of Black studies programs are discussed. Implications of the educational relevance of Black studies are analyzed with respect to the concept of a Third World perspective. (MC)

Conservation education in Pennsylvania includes: (1) use of an animal character to teach environmental concepts; (2) a revolutionary war fort, and adjacent nature park that mixes nature with history; (3) a nature center that revives American Indian appreciation of nature; and (4) a watershed study to relate chemistry to the study of environmental…

Core and other "soft" programs are vulnerable in the current educational and financial climate. Evaluation, communication, and involvement can help save them. (Author/MLF)

Semiotics and its role in the college curriculum are discussed. Semiotics is defined as an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the study of those entities that effect communication between interpreters of signs. Specifics of the discipline are discussed through examples from various fields. (SF)

Provides teaching tips for a visit to the zoo. Includes zoo manners, background information on vertebrates, and activities to do during and after the field trip. (MA)