Essentially an antipoverty measure, the Bilingual Education Act, which is supporting 76 bilingual programs in public elementary schools, comes far from meeting the needs of any significant proportion of the disadvantaged children whose language is other than English. One of the various federal and regional organizations striving to ameliorate…

The effects of an experimental, interdisciplinary, outdoor education program on selected students enrolled in a 2-year elementary teacher preparation program were measured. The sample consisted of 76 second year students; 39 students in a naturally assembled class were the control group, and 37 in another class were the experimental group. The…

Encourages the integration of science into other subject areas and into current events as a means to increase the emphasis upon science in the elementary school curriculum. (CP)

Discusses art education and some suggestions for correlated visual arts--social studies experiences for children. These activities allow for personal, aesthetic expression that should lead to increased understanding of important human relationships. (Editor/RK)

Discusses aspects of the interdisciplinary stress within the fields of remedial reading and learning disabilities. (MKM)

Science fiction can be used for introducing and analyzing political concepts at the undergraduate level for either a specialized theory-oriented course such as Political Science Fiction or an Introduction to Political Science course. (Author/RM)

Offers a model for interdisciplinary courses, altering the relation of the discipline, teacher, and student. Describes a University of Texas at Austin course as an example of the model, which focuses on major models for research; on developing students' methodological competence; and on validity and significance as writing criteria. (AYC)

Strategies to help social studies teachers integrate writing into their classes are suggested. These include student journals, focused freewriting, written assignments used for review, creative book reports, poems, short stories, and songs. (RM)

Points out that composition and literature often can be best taught when combined with architecture, philosophy, music, or other subjects. (EL)

Demonstrates that basic algebraic symbols can be used to illustrate fundamental concepts in technical writing, such as hierarchical organization, sentence structure, modification, and punctuation. Suggests that students in calculus, chemistry, and physics may benefit from this application of familiar concepts to those of technical writing. (HTH)

Points out that the prelingually deaf, whose first language is American Sign, need to learn English as a second language (ESL). The teaching methods of ESL have been successful when applied to deaf education, and there is a need for improved coorporation between teachers of the deaf and ESL teachers. (Author/SED)

Three popular models of dance education are discussed: romantic, reductionist, and reinforcement. What is needed is a unitary model, which provides an integrative approach to dance education by relating the emotional, skill-dependent, and intellectual aspects of dance to other subject matter. (RM)

Presents a model of an environmental studies course that reflects a spaceship earth philosophy. Includes a rationale and a listing of concepts and processes for this action oriented program. Suggests several interdisciplinary experiences that emphasize problem-solving and decision-making skills. (ML)

Describes how classrooms can "talk the language of" and "write about" mathematics concepts and procedures, thereby demystifying the abstraction of math and, at the same time, developing literacy skills. (GC)

There are many reading abilities that students need in order to read and comprehend effectively in the content areas. Discussed are techniques that the teacher can use to make students critical and independent readers. These include the directed reading activity, SQ3R, mapping, the cloze procedure, and various vocabulary techniques. (RM)