The encoding specificity principle asserts that a retrieval cue will be effective if, and only if, the to-be-remembered item was specifically encoded with respect to that cue during input. Describes a classroom experiment that provides an opportunity to demonstrate the encoding specificity phenomenon, note its limitations, and discuss its cause…

University students participated in community environmental problems by investigating junked cars. The students gained experience in problem identification, research design, and field investigation. The students also received sociopolitical experience by presenting their findings to the city commission. (MR)

Discusses the use of a combination of inquiry learning and transactional analysis in physics teaching to provide a student with opportunities to develop more positive attitudes about himself and physics. Included is a detailed description of three major ingredients: Transactional model, process approach, and teaching methods. (CC)

Hersey humanizes the horror of Hiroshima by describing the experiences of five survivors. Twenty senior high students in a U.S. history course were divided into five teams, one for each survivor, and asked to write a case history of that individual, make an oral presentation, and draw the victim's picture. (RM)

A description is provided of "Pediatric Oncology for Nurses," the first in a series of three courses offered to fourth-year nursing students in pediatric oncology. The first section provides a course overview, discusses time assignments, and describes the target student population. Next, a glossary of terms, and lists of course goals, long-range…

A description is presented of "Nutrition for Nurses," a prerequisite course for students anticipating entrance into the junior level of a state university registered nursing program. Introductory material highlights the course focus (i.e., the basics of good nutrition; nutrition through the life cycle; nursing process in nutritional care; and…

Developed by the Southwest Iowa Learning Resources Center, Media Now is a course for secondary students in media studies. Curriculum concentration is on television, film, radio, and recorded sound. Individualization of instruction, behavioral science, and mediated learning packages are employed with each module interrelated through printed…

The oral history section of a Penn State University course, "Culture and Ethnic Groups in the Social Studies," is described. (SJL)

Outlines a course which utilizes rational processes to teach high school students about religious diversity. Topics covered are Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and religious issues in contemporary society. (Author/DB)

Citizen band radios keep trucking across the American scene, and no doubt your students are caught in the folk craze. Provides some suggestions for channeling students' interests with a unit on CBs. (Author/RK)

A four-hour Introduction to Robotics lecture and laboratory course is discussed. Features of the three robot types used in the course are described, as well as how they are used in instruction. A computer program listing and two sample team projects are included. (MNS)

A teacher-developed economics newspaper brings real-world problems to the college classroom. The teacher must clip four or five articles a week, tape them to sheets of paper, underline key economic terms, and under each article write a few questions. Every four weeks a newspaper quiz is administered. (RM)

Describes a course at Michigan State University in which students carry out self-experiments in nutrition. Self-experiments help to impress students with importance of human nutrition and offer insights into problems associated with altered dietary patterns. A number of possible self-experiments in nutrition are listed. (JR)

Describes a course offered to students, faculty, counselors, administrators, and employees, which is designed to generate thinking regarding student use of occupational information in making career decisions. (SB)

Describes a letter-writing project designed to teach students that style, voice, and connotation affect the nature and force of written communication in the business world. (AEA)