Advocates field excursions in the teaching of geology and earth science. Provides useful suggestions and offers some cautions for the preparation and execution of a geology field trip. (JR)

Ideas for an ecology unit include field trips and a newspaper lesson; enviornmental study sources are listed. (SP)

The award was made to a high school English teacher who developed a program incorporating extensive field work into the academic regime. (SP)

Many experiments can be conducted in spring and early summer when many of the flowering plants must hurriedly bloom before the leafage of the trees and bushes takes most of the needed sunlight away. (DF)

Author describes approach taken by the Children's Aid Society of Vancouver in sponsoring a demonstration project aimed at illegitimacy prevention through hospital observation and family life dialogue with highschoolers. (Author/MB)

For children beginning at the elementary level, the phenomenon of the giant supermarket provides an excellent learning laboratory. (Editor)

An overnight canoe trip by seventh and eighth grade students on Lake George, New York, exemplifies one aspect of extending the curriculum, both for recreation and environmental education. Experiences with camping, canoeing, American History, aquatic ecology, and other areas are described to show the unlimited possibilities of such activities. (BL)

Illustrated with photographs and poems by participating students. (RD)

Field work is an important but often neglected facet of undergraduate geography training. Kinds of field work and field training are analyzed including selection of study areas and camp site selection. A two week field camp with deferred papers is a workable solution for undergraduate programs. (NH)