Freshmen cadets in an enriched mediated honors course in General Physics achieved slightly less on a 40 common-item criteria test than cadets in a traditionally taught honors course in the same subject, although the mediated course included approximately 40 percent more content in the area of modern physics. In the enriched course, audiovisual…

British science curriculum improvement projects on the elementary and secondary school levels are reviewed in this volume to indicate their implications for the development of second-generation programs in the United States. Included in the British second-generation program category are: the Scottish integrated courses, Nuffield combined science,…

The report describes general education courses offered at Wilde Lake High School--a school that maintains a flexible environment conducive to learning and hopefully fosters individual development and growth. The aim of the school is to create an environment that helps students: adjust and cope with their environment outside the school; develop…

Presented here are ideas for multidisciplinary environmental education. The suggestions are examples of ways in which environmentally beneficial learnings can be incorporated into the existing curriculum, and are intended to assist in the development of learning packages. Among the five overall objectives listed are: 1) to develop personal…

This evaluation report investigates the effectiveness of the Unified Science and Mathematics for Elementary Schools (USMES) program during the academic year, 1973-74. USMES is a curricular program designed to develop the problem solving abilities of students attending grades one through eight. The goal of the program is the development of 32…

This teaching guide contains part one of the four parts of the first year of the Portland Project, a three-year secondary integrated science curriculum sequence. This part involves the student in a series of activities intended to increase his understanding of his perceptual abilities and their limitations. Organization and classification as parts…

This teacher's guide contains part two of the four-part first year Portland Project, a three-year secondary integrated science curriculum sequence. This part involves the student with unifying principles essential for deeper understanding of the concept of energy. Confidence in the atomic nature of matter is built by relating heat in terms of…

This teacher's guide includes parts three and four of the four-part third year Portland Project, a three-year integrated secondary science curriculum sequence. The underlying intention of the third year is to study energy and its importance to life. Energy-related concepts considered in year one and two, and the concepts related to atomic…

This curriculum guide for an interdisciplinary pottery unit includes concepts and objectives, student activities, and suggested resources. Introductory material indicates it was designed as a 2-day minicourse for the Mountain School seventh grade at Charles Counts' Pottery Workshop in Georgia but that material is adaptable to a regular school…

Selected units from a series of 26 activities on the concepts of force, pressure, density and upthrust are provided. The units are intended to be used in a modular approach in such a way as to allow students at different developmental levels to gain an understanding of these ideas appropriate to their abilities. (CP)

Reported is a survey designed to assess the relationship between essential competencies as perceived by faculty, and job needs as perceived by graduates of the agronomy department at Pennyslvania State University. Results indicated that while various competencies were valued differently, raters did not disagree on what were important competencies.…

Presents a topical outline for a course in chemistry for students in the health professions, as recommended for use by a committee of the American Chemical Society. States that there are several appropriate texts written for courses of this type. (TW)

Discusses some of the advances made by engineering educators in the development and use of instructional television (ITV). Provides suggestions on how new ITV satellite linkages between universities, industry, government laboratories, and technical societies can offer opportunities for faculty development. (TW)

Argues that four years of undergraduate studies in engineering is inadequate. Proposes the replacement of the undergraduate degree with the establishment of the doctor of Engineering (Eng.D.). Distinguishes between the needs for the bachelor of engineering technology degree (B.E.T.), the Eng.D., and the doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees. (TW)

Describes a statics course developed at Texas A&M University in the engineering curriculum which utilizes computer-assisted instruction. Discusses the organization and management of the team that developed the course, the selection of the hardware and software used, and the implementation model and lesson prototype developed for the course.…