This paper outlines a procedure for compiling a Natural Resources Inventory to be used in college-level environmental education classes. Topics for lectures, laboratory projects, materials and equipment lists, and alternative information sources are included. (AM)

Experiential teaching is seen as an approach for developing life skills through field trips, career education projects, self-awareness experiences, and group activities. (SB)

The author, a student participant, describes Close Up a nonprofit nonpartisan organization which hosts high school students and their teachers in Washington, D.C., for week-long educational experiences about the inner workings of the American political system. (Author/SJL)

An intensive 12-week interdisciplinary course, involving wilderness field work and class discussion, is described. The course integrates various disciplines in an intensive 18-credit examination of principles and knowledge surrounding wilderness and civilization issues. (RE)

Suggestions are given for using zoos as a teaching resource. Cooperation is encouraged between teachers and zoo personnel. (SA)

Presents activities to be used by a class of fifth graders on a field trip to a stream. Photographs illustrate the techniques and the setting described. (HM)

The key to a successful program in a cold environment lies in dealing with the cold while still accomplishing program goals and objectives. Teachers and students must be aware of physiological and psychological reactions to the cold, cold injuries and their treatment, and techniques for staying warm. (SB)

Old Sturbridge in central Massachusetts, a recreated New England Village of the period 1790-1840, is a museum of the past which includes a learning center with reproductions of artifacts used in the period, with demonstration areas, and a teacher center where resource materials for class use are available. (MF)

Discusses changes in the methods of earth science fieldwork brought about by the introduction of the National Curriculum to UK schools. Teachers have traditionally described and interpreted geology for pupils. Teachers now need accessible, safe sites close to schools. The sites must allow pupils to identify problems for themselves and solve them…

Although museums are considered optimal venues for informal learning, this study concludes that most school classes visiting museums are restricted and structured, teachers use mainly task-orientated teaching practices, and the museum activities are rarely linked to topics being studied at school. A research-based framework to guide teachers in…

A survey of 50 students (grades 4-11) returning to a gifted summer program provided several suggestions for regular schools. Suggestions included curriculum-related field trips, serving individual student interests, use of college campus facilities, flexible school policies and teacher planning, hands-on science and technology, and opportunities…

An Oregon high school offered an interdisciplinary history/science course on the Lewis and Clark Expedition that focuses on experiential learning and student projects. Camping and field trips helped make the material relevant as the course moved from a study of the primordial Pacific Northwest, through the Native American period, to what has…

Describes the final segment of a Seattle high school anthropology course--a four-week stay on the Navajo Reservation. Examines how this immersion in Navajo culture changed the values and perspectives of White students as they were forced to confront paradoxes in their own lives. (SV)

Discusses a field trip to Lucan, Ontario to research the story of the Donnelly family murders of 1880. Describes sites visited, student activities, and contacts made with local individuals familiar with the story. Includes class follow-up activities. Provides an activity on cemeteries and examines educational benefits. (RW)

Teachers at the Dag Hammarskjold School No. 6 in Rochester, New York, developed an interdisciplinary curriculum for fifth and sixth graders that they call the Interesting Questions Approach. Teachers and students choose questions about a topic and plan activities that will enable students to find the answers. (LB)