Zoos have been under attack by animal rights groups for decades. Despite significant reforms to improve animal welfare in accredited zoos and aquariums across North America, and significant participation in animal conservation efforts globally, these attacks persist. If zoos are to continue long-term, they need to establish themselves as community…

EVERY COMMUNITY CONTAINS INTERESTING PLACES TO VISIT, AND PEOPLE WHOSE SPECIAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND TALENTS CAN CONTRIBUTE MUCH TO A LEARNING EXPERIENCE WHICH CANNOT BE GAINED SOLELY FROM BOOKS. A LIST OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES IN THE BRONX, NEW YORK, AREA IS INCLUDED. PLACE NAMES, LOCATIONS, AND CONTACT PERSONS AND THEIR TELEPHONE NUMBERS ARE…

Authors suggest that June is a time to examine the year ending and plan for the one approaching. (Author/RK)

An effective and comprehensive guide to possible field trips for Nassau County (New York) elementary and secondary students covers places of interest in Nassau and Suffolk counties and in New York City. Recognizing that field trips can have great importance in the learning process, especially if they are directly related to the curriculum, the…

A high school teacher presents some guidelines for coordinating instructional activities in the classroom with resources in the community. She suggests keeping a resource file of possible activities, speakers, field trips, videotape or cassette tape interviews when trips are not feasible, work education programs, teacher exchange, materials from…

An overview is presented of school programs that utilize the resources of the local community as an educational tool. Examples are presented of ways in which successful field trip programs have been organized and administered. Included in this report are citations of articles and documents available from the ERIC information system. (JD)

This resource guide offers descriptions of community resources, field trips, human resources, and resource materials available to teachers and parents in New York City. The resources, covering a wide variety of curriculum areas, are listed separately by borough (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island). Manhattan is further divided…

This environmental education community resource guide is an illustration of the rich potentialities offered by the child's immediate environment. Although the guide focuses on a Philadelphia community, it is written in such a format and approach for adaptation by other teachers in other localities. The goal of the guide is to broaden the teacher's…

Discusses a program developed by the Seattle (Washington) Art Museum which conducts teacher workshops and student tours so that museum resources can be used effectively in the educational process. Including lectures by museum officials and University of Washington scholars, the program provides resources and strategies for teaching about the tea…

This manual is intended to help high school teachers use a laboratory field trip approach to economic education. The information in the manual is based on experiences which were part of the Akron, Ohio, Public School pilot program in economics that combined classroom instruction with in-depth exposure to community resources. Part 1 of the manual…

Two topics that are important for improving the teaching of science in the elementary grades are: (1) the availability of classroom science materials and equpment; and (2) teacher improvement in subject matter competencies, instructional skills, and familiarity with technology. A workshop was developed to help teachers develop instructional…

This preparation of the Temple-Philadelphia-Trenton Teacher Corps Program describes the use of the resources which are available to most colleges, universities, school systems, and communities to achieve the goals of technology in education--individualization and humanization. Staff deployment and characteristics (including intensity and diversity…

Based on the practical training experience of sixteen school districts and two universities which comprise the Wisconsin Career Education Consortium, this report presents training strategies for a variety of community-school collaboration efforts. Eleven training strategies are presented: (1) providing an in-school visitation day for business…