This book offers a series of activities that can be conducted in the manner that seems most reasonable for a particular class at a particular time. Teachers can select from the chapters those activities that fit their goals and objectives. Chapters include: (1) Land Development; (2) Land Ownership; (3) Agriculture Land Use; (4) Urban Land Use; (5)…

This paper takes G.K. Chesterton's short story, "The Three Horsemen of Apocalypse," as a motivating introduction to the study of linear equations systems, as well as a review of the concept of linear function. The guide has three objectives: (1) to illustrate how to use non-mathematical sources to create math problems; (2) to use the graphing…

This learning packet presents geography units designed for self-directed study use by students in grades K-8. Instructions are given regarding how to use the materials. The five themes of geography provide a framework for analyzing questions about a place, how that place came to be the way it is, and how the place effects the people living there.…

This teacher's guide complements six programs that aired on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in the spring of 2000. Programs include: (1) "Lost on Everest"; (2) "Lost Tribes of Israel"; (3) "Crocodiles"; (4) "Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude"; (5) "Global Warming"; and (6) "Secrets of…

This book is an inquiry- and discovery-based teacher's guide. The interesting and fun activities in this teacher's guide meet the challenge of relating tiny, microscopic organisms to the lives of children. The inquiry-based activities range from designing and making a phytoplankter and collecting phytoplankton to designing an experiment for…

This paper explores how "equity" and "risk" can call into question the ecology of a school. It suggests that failing to follow a holistic approach to a school problem can produce solutions that fail the students the effort was intended to assist. Examining schooling as a process of social production and reproduction leads to…

Policy research, the systematic analysis of public policies, is applicable to undergraduate study because it develops interdisciplinary skills, and creates a program through which students and faculty members can cooperate in attempting to solve crucial social problems. (Author/PG)

An interdisciplinary course can offer new dimensions to both teaching and learning, but along with freedom there must be discipline. (Editor)

Discusses the need for decompartmentalization in education and an attempt to unify the student's learning experience through interdisciplinary study. (DD)

A program of training for understanding other professionals, cooperating with them, and actual experience in shared effort, concern, and application is described. (Editor)

Suggests how to get classes to interact and participate in an experience together through the use of an Exploration Grid. (RB)

Discussion of the reorganization of a middle school to grades six, seven and eight instead of seven and eight because of earlier peer culture influence. Programming is flexible, the subjects are integrated and everything is individualized. (Author/AF)