This article describes a one-week indoor boy's physical education unit consisting of playground games and circus stunts. (RC)

Describes a course designed for students to gain knowledge with a degree of relevance by providing opportunities for student appreciation of the physics associated with features in everyday life. (GS)

Describes an interdisciplinary kinesiology course which incorporated a minicourse on the physics of sports. Outlines the topics treated in the minicourse and reports findings of student gains in both the affective and cognitive domains. (GS)

Education needed for university teaching is discussed in terms of general education, academic specialization, and professional preparation. A 1-term orientation course required for new lecturers and professors, open to others, at the University of Ife, Nigeria, is described which includes lectures, seminars, and workshops on university objectives…

The student planned, student organized, and student evaluated educational psychology courses at Des Moines Community College proceed on democratic principles, with students voting on course content and design, the role of the instructor, course progress, and grading policy. (NHM)

How the criticism of a teacher led to the improvement of his experimental psychology course and a symposium on teaching experimental psychology. (Author/DE)

Describes a physics laboratory course designed to give the true flavor of science in the laboratory by emphasizing measurement. Presents the goals of the course and describes the three main blocks of study that comprise a year's work. (GS)

Describes an effective and efficient method to induce students to do physics homework. (CP)

Paper describes computer language courses in terms of the demands placed on the computing language used, and the ideas to which the students were exposed. Those characteristics of LOGO which are most important to the success of the courses are evaluated. (Author)

Presents the philosophy and structure of an environmental program designed to retain the students identities as chemists. Describes the two core courses in environmental chemistry and lists the instructional materials used. (GS)

Describes an individualized introductory genetics course and its major outcomes: increased student achievement, a sense of self-achievement, more student confidence in their own ideas, as well as a program which costs less and can accommodate more students per instructor. (BR)

Describes a course that uses the Ft. Calhoun nuclear power plant as a case study. The course involves three component parts: physics of fission events, engineering requirements, and economic considerations; environmental impact from radiation and thermal effluents; and the impact of social, political and legal factors. (GS)

Describes an introductory course in geology for nonscience majors that involves students in laboratory exercises related to rock classification. (GS)

Describes the objectives, structure, and evaluation of an upper level, limited enrollment, elective course taught by a team of a physicist, a psychologist, and a literary scholar. Reports experience with the course since first taught in the Spring of 1972. (GH)