Describes a course in which physical principles of measurement for biological studies intended for students in the biological and biophysical sciences are taught. (SL)

Describes a one-year interdisciplinary introductory science course presented at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, for nonscience majors. (SL)

Reviews chemistry taught at Westminster High School, Denver, Colorado, and theoretical aspects of hydrolysis. (SL)

Provides an outline for a semester course in the history of organic chemistry. (SL)

Describes an introductory geophysics course for physics majors. (SL)

Describes a one week secondary level physics course which includes experiments carried out in the field. (SL)

Describes a university level laboratory science course designed for visually handicapped students. (SL)

Analysis of a summer ecology course emphasizing values clarifying techniques is presented. Pretest and posttest attitude scores indicate a positive increase in attitudes towards ecology. Even a year after the course had been offered, the average attitude scores remained unchanged. (MA)

Describes the Foundational Approaches in Science Teaching (FAST) project and how the use of substantial curricular efforts of consequence can be successfully mounted and maintained on limited budgets out of local or regional resources, utilizing a small and stable staff over longer periods of time, in the limited but flexible environment of a…

Provides the syllabus for a course which examines the role of creative thinking with the scientific method and the interrelationship of science and society. (CP)

Politics and science have become too much entangled in the controversy over creationism and the teaching of evolution in the public schools. Political opinion is irrelevant when the scientific principles underlying a particular issue are being discussed. (MSE)

The literature on problems of inservice teacher education in general, and science inservice teacher education in particular, is synthesized, problems identified, and suggestions generated from the findings. These may also be generalized to mathematics teachers. (MNS)

Discusses survey results which focused on changes in service club members' perception of the science curriculum. Responses indicated an increase in the acceptance of the Project Synthesis goals between the years 1982 and 1984. (ML)

Presents a rationale for the new Soviet biology curriculum. Explains guidelines for teaching methodology. Describes in some detail the goals and tasks for students in the new Soviet biology curriculum for grades six through eleven. (RKM)

Argues that universities are failing to prepare students for responsible citizenship in a world being rapidly changed by biotechnology. Calls for bringing together biology and the social sciences in more core courses. (TW)