Describes a course in elementary mechanics especially designed for students of athletics and dance. Includes photographs, taken in a gymnasium laboratory, used for analyzing human motion. Student response is described. (Author/CP)

Describes the planning and implementation of a fundamental college chemistry course for non-science majors. The course was planned and taught by undergraduate chemistry majors. (MLH)

Discusses the planning and implementation of a laboratory course in which students carried out experimental measurements, reduced data, conducted literature surveys, and presented their results in the form of original research papers. (Author/MLH)

Describes the philosophy and content of an industrial chemistry course offered to seniors and graduate students. The course does not use a text; the chemistry is presented on projected transparencies which are also reproduced on paper and given to the students. Outside readings are predominately made in the "Encyclopedia of Chemical…

Evaluates a research paper-laboratory experience biology course developed in lieu of the traditional biology course. Results indicated this course to be of value as a way of showing students exactly how scientists work. It is recommended that this course not be a substitute for tradtional biology but be used to augment the understanding of…

Describes the study of electronics as a terminal course in electromagnetism. A lecture-laboratory approach is used with a strong emphasis on practical experience. Outlines the major topics of the lecture program and describes the activities used in the laboratory. (GS)

After publication in 1982 of the Royal Society report "Science Education 11-18 in England and Wales," the Physics Education Joint Committee of the Royal Society and Institute of Physics was established. A working party of this Joint Committee has now produced this reduced-content 16+ syllabus in physics. The main intention of the working…

This syllabus (which is not a teaching syllabus) is intended to be an essential minimum core syllabus in biology for children of all abilities. It consists of: (1) a foreword, which outlines how the syllabus was generated; (2) an introduction, which provides information about the use of the syllabus in biology teaching (for example, the local…

Describes the main features of the personalized system of instruction (PSI) or Keller Plan, and outlines the advantages and disadvantages encountered in implementing this instructional format in a freshman non-major biology course. (JR)

Explains the need of a science course that emphasizes the applicability of the usual undergraduate chemistry curriculum to environmental problems. A course is described and results of its use are presented. (Author/EB)

Describes an introductory course for college students which consists of a series of questions related to a report on bacterial contamination of glucose drip bottles. The students discuss and conduct their own experiments. Summarizes student and staff response to this course. (Author/EB)

The syllabi for the grade 11 biology, chemistry, physics and technician science courses taught in the Technical Schools of the Education Department of Victoria (Australia) each contain a listing of the topics to be taught, the scope and depth of treatment, suitable textbooks, possible demonstrations and laboratory work, and, in the case of the…

Urges the restructuring of astronomy-astrophysics courses to accommodate nonastronomy majors. Outlines an alternative approach to teach astronomy. (GA)

Explains a modified approach to PSI physics courses, where group interaction takes place through problem solving sessions held on a regular basis, and which the students are required to attend. (GA)