Traces the history of the British Social Hygiene Council and relates the Council's aims in education to the development of Social Biology courses in England at the primary, secondary, and college levels. (CS)

Provides historical examples of intuitive discovery applicable to the teaching of physics for majors. Cites details for the discovery of Coulomb's law, emphasizing the roles of Joseph Priestley and Henry Cavendish. Also discusses the career of Ivar Giaever, a Nobel Prize winner of 1973 in solid state physics. (CS)

Describes the continuing education program for clinical chemistry instrumentation training established at The College of Staten Island, New York. A course consisting of 14 sessions is outlined and discussed. (CS)

Described are two curriculum units from the Michigan Sea Grant Program for middle school students: The Sea Lamprey in the Great Lakes, and Great Lakes Fisheries Transition. Topics discussed include fishery rights and responsibilities, where fisheries are, the modern fishery, buying and selling fish, and preserving fish. (DS)

Described are investigations related to fisheries education developed by the Ohio Sea Grant Education Office as a part of a series of Oceanic Education Activities for Great Lake Schools. The investigations discussed are "Yellow Perch in Lake Erie," which concerns fisheries management, and "It's Everyone's Sea: Or Is It," which…

To prevent increasing personal injuries and property loss, teachers need to educate themselves and their students about geological hazards. The author discusses earthquakes, downslope movement, dam failures, shoreline erosion, and other geologic hazards. Information on suggested teacher resources is provided. (DS)

Described is a praparium, a completely sealed and self-contained living aquarium. Steps on how to set up the aquarium, cautions, and a list of suggested aquarium plants and fish are included. (DS)

Reports results of a survey designed to compare the extent that BSCS biology was being used in Kansas secondary schools in 1977-78 to its utilization in 1967-68. (CS)

An analogy, which has been drawn between black hole physics and thermodynamics, is mathematically broadened in this article. Equations similar to the standard partial differential relations of thermodynamics are found for black holes. The results can be used to supplement an undergraduate thermodynamics course. (Author/SK)

Describes the chemical reactions and compounds involved in making a cake. A protein coagulation and gas expansion laboratory activity is included in which the students bake a cake and eat it. (DS)

A model of scientific inquiry is presented, and several instructional strategies that encourage the hypothesis generation component are described. (JMF)

The author sets forth a taxonomy of the decisions essential to planning a chemistry education curriculum. Elements of the taxonomy are: value decisions, content decisions, pedagogical decisions, sequencing decisions, evaluating decisions, feasibility decisions, implementation decisions, and accountability decisions. (RE)

Results of surveys, conducted in 1972 (N=68 institutions) and 1977 (N=73 institutions), of first-year college biology courses are discussed, relative to changes in course emphasis, class size, number of offerings, and course titles. Institutions contacted for survey purposes were those receiving ten or more Biology Advanced Placement candidates.…

Described is a freshman science program at Deerfield Academy (Deerfield, Mass.) in meteorology, designed as the first part of a three-year unified science sequence. Merits of the course, in which particular emphasis is placed on observation skills and making predictions, are enumerated. (CS)

Discusses how holography can be used as part of undergraduate physics laboratories. The authors propose a single beam technique of holography, which will reduce the recording scheme as well as relax the isolation requirements. (HM)