This paper describes a workshop that aims to change adult students' attitudes toward early number work in order to give them a different perspective and help them make mathematics their own so that they will no longer be looking for the teacher's approval to tell them whether what they have done is correct. (ASK)

This paper focuses upon three recently revised preservice, content-specific methods courses: "Teaching of Middle School Mathematics,""Computing Technology in Secondary School Mathematics," and "Teaching of Secondary School Mathematics." Changes in these methods courses better address and build upon preservice teacher…

Discusses experience of conducting a project designed to interest and train women in physics, involving student recruitment, course design, laboratory work planning, and counseling services. Included are surveyed faculty and graduate student comments and participants' attitudes toward the project. (CC)

Discusses a two-semester noncalculus general physics course which emphasizes the teaching of physical knowledge in biology, biophysics, and medicine. Included are a table of major biophysical examples, an outline of lectures, and a list of references. (CC)

Summarizes the evolution of a highly concentrated introductory physics course which emphasizes the spiral approach and the use of audiovisual aids and closed circuit television in autolectures, seminars, and laboratory sessions with multiple options. Finds that this summer school course is satisfactory as indicated by students' high interest and…

Goals, course structure, physical and technical problems, the running of a simulation and evaluation of students are described for a game representing the political system of Argentina in a university comparative government course. (Author/KM)

A minicourse offered during a college intersession explored the essence of futuristic thinking through science fiction literature. Reading assignments, guests speakers, films, and simulations used in the course are described. (KM)

Discusses experience of teaching a "Search in Science" course to college nonscience majors entitled "From Myth to Mechanism: A Study of Man's Changing Concepts of the Universe from Early Mythological Beliefs to the Development of Modern Scientific Laws." Historical explanation of the development of physical concepts is stressed. (CC)

Discusses the conduct of a general inorganic chemistry course in a community junior college with emphases upon students' participation and interests. Included are a list of proposed topics and two samples of evaluation sheet. (CC)

Discusses the use of programmed scripts, textbooks, films, and cassette tapes to conduct a self-instruction laboratory course. Indicates the presence of marked positive effects on the development of the students' ability to plan their own experiments. (CC)

Discusses some of the alternative approaches adopted by the Experimental College-Earth Science Teacher Project at Minot State College in an attempt to attract general education students and transmit the excitement and challenge of science to non-majors. (JR)

Describes the main features of the Physics Method component of the Post Graduate Certificate of Education course offered to preservice science teachers at Bath University, England. (JR)

Described is a physics course developed for seventh grade students. Emphasis is placed on developing basic skills and, as part of this objective, students construct their own scientific equipment. A sample lesson illustrates the methods and objectives used for this course. (JP)