A curriculum map for a year-long, fifth-grade, multidisciplinary project takes a performance view of understanding from Harvard University Project Zero's Research Center. Throughout the project and in each assessment of understanding, learners show what they know about human evolution. This guide to deep disciplinary understanding of the big idea…

Whether poor knowledge of evolution among Singapore students might be linked to low levels of content knowledge about evolution among junior high school and senior high school teachers was studied. A teacher questionnaire on biological evolution was developed. Twelve teachers from Singapore junior college (JC) schools and 42 from the lower…

The article points out the growing attempts by creationists to have special creation presented with evolution in any educational discussion of the origin of life. The evolution theory is shown to be consistent with known scientific facts while the theory of special creation does not adequately account for these facts. (LS)

The author points out that two models of creation and evolution designed to explain life forms are equally competent and one is not less scientific than the other. Both of the models should be included in school curriculum. (PS)

Traces the history of life on earth from the Cambrian period to present. Stresses the importance of inter-dependence of individual and species and the dependence of life upon non-life. Discusses the speed at which man has altered nature's balance and the question of how an ecological balance is to be maintained. (LK)

Illustrates an account of the University of Illinois Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations (PLATO) system of individualized instruction by describing four undergraduate topics. (AL)

Protozoa inhabiting the rumen of large grazing animals can be used to illustrate symbiotic animal associations. Gives a key to the ciliates most commonly found, several drawings, and a chart relating rumen fauna to the phylogenetic tree of the hosts. (EB)

Article relates human motivation to the philosophical theory of Christian Realism or Thomism. (Author/ML)

The basic task before the educational profession today is to study and understand the evolutionary-humanist revolution, to follow up its educational implications; and to enable as many as possible of the world's growing minds to be illuminated by its new vision of human destiny. (Author/JB)

Suggests a course suitable for the general education of all college students using biological topics as a bridge between sciences and humanities. (AL)

Provides examples of the arguments made by scientist members of the Creation Research Society to the California State Board of Education, which resolved that scientific evidence concerning the origin of life implies at least a dualism." An objection to the board's action by the state Advisory Committee on Science Education is included. (AL)

Reports use of semantic differential instrument to measure junior high school science teachers attitudes toward education, science, evolution, religion, high school teachers, and college teachers. (BR)

Focuses on some apparently evolved features of human adolescence and their possible functions, including the pubertal growth spurt, sexual size dimorphism and bimaturism, the greater aggressiveness of males, heightened concern with one's social standing and the factors affecting it, intergenerational friction, same-sex aggregations and solidarity,…

Discusses mechanics of and experiences with an urban land use simulation game. Students were able to practice developing analytical skills, improve their capacity to collect thoughts and present them orally, and participate in a real life "adult" situation where they could apply concepts learned in the course of their education.…

Discusses the "sudden explosion" of animal fossils during the Cambrian era, suggesting that the "explosion" is a result of organic evolution, leading to remarkably preservable calcareous skeletons. Suggests that earlier organisms were soft-bodied and consequently were poorly preserved in the fossil record. (JN)