Project Open is an industrial-arts curriculum development effort designed to open up opportunities for West Virginia students to study the nature of technology and its effect on man and society. (Author)

The varieties of materials testing and its methods, uses, and resources for industrial arts classes are described. (MU)

This pamphlet provides an overview of the present situation concerning technology education in Oklahoma. It lists learner outcomes, details the criteria for a technology education program, and illustrates the role of industrial arts/technology education in the total education system. The four functions that industrial arts/technology education…

Describes the rationale for, development of, and activities of the Renaissance Educational Consortium Ensuring Individualized Progress in Technology and Science (RECEIPTS). The effort is designed to build a consortium of community resources with a focus on science and technology in order to combat the problems of low academic motivation and…

Describes a teacher-developed electronics program for secondary students. The two-part, year-long program deals with modern solid-state technology. (MA)

The Secondary Exploration of Technology (S. E. T.) project, an industrial arts research and development project providing continuity of learning for students from grades 7 through 12, is described. Three "Systems of Industry" courses for ninth and tenth grade students, modelled on the techniques of industry, are unique to the program.…

Reports on this recently developed program which is a single subject alternative to physics and chemistry. In the program, the interrelationships of science and technology are examined. Teaching methodologies and instructional materials are described. (CP)

The success of two engineering and technology-oriented secondary school programs is discussed. Also presented is the Man Made World and the Technology-People-Environment at two suburban high schools. (BB)

Described is an interdisciplinary curriculum of science and social science for the teaching of environmental education at the high school level. The curriculum is designed for use with either one or two semesters of a class meeting for 50 minutes, five times per week. The document outlines the components of the curriculum and presents extensive…

Focusing on long-term arms-race education, discusses what physicists can do to help provide students and the public with technical information needed to understand issues involved in the nuclear cold war. Suggestions provided focus on public programs, media, publications, education of physicists, arms-race courses, "enrichment in physics courses,"…

A program was developed to encourage Black students to consider science/engineering careers by exposing them to technical and scientific concepts, equipment, and projects during Saturday classes and site visits to businesses, factories, and laboratories; having them interact with minority engineers and scientists; and preparing them for college.…

To show communications as a total system, West Virginia University's Technology Education Program developed a course called Career Exploration in Technology (CEIT) through an agreement with the Mason County (West Virginia) Public School System. Two graduate students describe their CEIT program, now a required ninth-grade course at Wahama High…

Discusses aims of educational projects sponsored by British Petroleum Company (BPC) and British Gas Corporation (BGC). Includes rationale for including technology in school curricula and types of curriculum materials produced by BPC and BGC. (SK)