This collection of laboratory lessons is designed primarily for the non-college bound high school student. It can be adapted, however, to a wide range of abilities. It begins with an examination of the properties of nuclear radiation, develops an understanding of the fundamentals of nucleonics, and ends with an investigation of careers in areas…

This is a report on the care and use of wild birds in captivity as research animals. Chapters are presented on procurement and identification, housing, nutrition, health of birds and personnel, reproduction in confinement, and surgical procedures. Also included are addresses of federal, state, and provencial regulatory agencies concerned with wild…

This learner's guide on nutrients is derived from a water monitoring curriculum developed at Ulster County Community College. There are 30 modules in this guide; each introduced with a statement of purpose and then broken down into an objective, learning conditions, and performance level. The modules cover: (1) safety; (2) chemical compounds; (3)…

A PREVIOUSLY REPORTED SERIES OF SOUND QUALITY EXPERIMENTS WAS CONTINUED AND INCLUDED AN ANALYSIS OF ALL DATA OBTAINED. THE TESTS WERE CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF THE SOUND QUALITY OF LANGUAGE LABORATORY EQUIPMENT ON THE LEARNING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES. ATTENTION WAS FOCUSED ON THE FREQUENCY RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOUND RECORDING…

REPORTS ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE LABORATORIES ARE PRESENTED AS A CONFERENCE'S PANEL DISCUSSION. EDWARD MARXHEIMER'S "TRAINING OF LANGUAGE LABORATORY PERSONNEL" DISCUSSES THE NEED FOR TRAINED INDIVIDUALS WHO CAN UTILIZE THE GREAT POTENTIAL OF THE LABORATORY. IGOR M. GLADSTONE AND GENEVIEVE C. BIRD DISCUSS RESPECTIVELY THE USE OF THE LANGUAGE…

This publication is intended to be a resource for teachers and administrators who are responsible for the safety of students, and others, in the general areas where science instructing is occurring. The handbook is designed to assist teachers of science regardless of their background in science. Particular concerns such as laboratory safety…

Reported is the analysis of an individualized biology laboratory program in order to determine if objectives of the laboratory were achieved by students and to identify factors related to success in an individualized laboratory. (Author/PB)

A discussion augmented by plans of a partially transportable industrial arts learning laboratory. The design calls for four laboratories, parts of which are fixed and parts of which are capsule sections which can be rotated between four junior high schools on a nine week basis. Advantages and disadvantages of the design are discussed in sections…

This is one of several short-term courses developed to assist in the training of waste water treatment plant operational personnel in the tests, measurements, and report preparation required for compliance with their NPDES Permits. The Student Reference Manual provides step-by-step procedures for laboratory application of equipment operating…

This publication presents a suggested inservice training program for safety in the laboratory for secondary school science teachers. It consists of three parts. Part one discusses administrative guidelines. Part two consists of 14 lesson plans for lectures in the training course for teachers. Each of these lesson plans consists of an overview,…

Information is provided for projects on metric education involving the use of motor vehicles or vans as mobile laboratories or demonstration units. Included are various types and functions of mobile education facilities in common use in recent years in both mathematics and non-mathematics areas, with descriptions of several current metric mobile…

Intended to be used along with the "Teacher's Guide to Classroom Discussions for Biology" and the "Teacher's Guide to Laboratory Activities for Biology," this volume presents 43 laboratory exercises for introductory college-level biology. (CP)

This guide is prepared for teachers who have students using the laboratory manual, "Laboratory Activities for Biology." The publication contains some introductory remarks for teachers, lists of materials and equipment, methods of making solutions and other preparations, suggestions for introductory discussions with the class, and…

The use of school grounds as an outdoor learning area is the main emphasis of this manual for elementary and junior high school teachers. Detailed plannin g steps, site plots, directions for planting, and other related planning information are given, along with guidelines concerning the use of an outdoor classroom by teachers of various subjects.…

The purpose of this symposium was to explore and alleviate the problems in federal laboratory-university relationships, and to point out and encourage greater development of the opportunities inherent in these type of relationships. Participants included 37 federal and university officials. Statements on the "federal viewpoint" and the "university…