Activities dealing with First Amendment issues involve secondary students in exploring freedom of the press and speech in general and as they apply in the schools and in developing a personal position regarding the appropriate balance between the public's right to know and the need for national security. (RM)

Gives background information for a secondary unit on the blues. Such a unit should include singing blues songs and playing accompaniment, listening to records, and composing original works. Study of the blues is an important way to transmit insights about our cultural heritage. (CS)

What makes a case interesting enough or important enough to be heard by the Supreme Court is discussed, tips to help teachers use a Supreme Court docket in the classroom are presented, and teaching strategies are described. Resources for studying the Supreme Court are also cited. (RM)

Because the Daughters of the American Revolution's (DAR) Black exclusion rule prevented Black singer Marion Anderson from performing in the DAR auditorium in 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the organization. Primary source materials regarding this incident and learning activities for secondary level students are presented. (RM)

Four masters suitable for copying are given for models of solids: half-cube, square based oblique pyramid, irregular hexahedron, and square based right pyramid. Suggestions for the teacher are included. (MNS)

Provides author and subject indexes for material appearing in "The Physics Teacher" during the years 1963 to 1980. Subject index is arranged alphabetically by major and minor topic areas. (JN)

Lists sources dealing with teaching reading in high school industrial arts courses organized under the headings of teaching aids and practices, reading textbooks, related research, and general references. (AEA)

An annotated bibliography of "Essential Sources on Teaching" was assembled and made available to the faculty of the Penn State Instructional Development Program. The faculty's favorable response was responsible for the identification of this collection. (Author/MLW)

Starting from a science project on flight, art students discussed and investigated various means of moving in space. Then they made acetate illustrations which could be used as transparencies. The projection phenomenon made the illustrations look airborne. (CS)

A high school level legal education curriculum development project undertaken in a small locally-controlled school district in Canada is described. Specifically discussed are project background, the process used to develop the curriculum, the project objectives, and resources used. (RM)

Describes various magazines that monitor developments about computers in education. (HOD)

This article provides resource materials teaching astronomy. Included are references to laboratory manuals, articles, films, telescopes, handbooks, and atlases. Each reference is classified as elementary, intermediate or advanced. (SL)

Guidelines for introducing death education into elementary and secondary school subjects are presented. Included are teacher criteria to be met prior to starting a unit on death, a list of interdisciplinary topics relating to death, possible guest speakers, learning activities, and a resource list. (SL)

The workshop that is the subject of this report, one in a series of workshops made possible through a grant to the CFE from the National Science Foundation, is the starting point for that effort. The center's mission is to promote evidence-based policy analysis that both responds to current needs and anticipates future ones. This one-day workshop…