Describes an application of solid-state memories in a laboratory course, which enables students to build electronic devices. Also introduces the fundamentals of analog-to-digital conversion and sampling theory. (CS)

Describes an inexpensive physics apparatus and experiment to dynamically determine Young's modulus for thin reeds and wire samples. (HM)

Five types of models are discussed as they relate to their function in the sciences and science teaching. These include scale, analogue, mathematical, theoretical, and archetypal models. (SA)

Cites recent experiences of the Leeds School Science Industry Liason Committee in organizing contacts between schools and industry. Procedures are discussed for developing kits of teaching materials based upon local industries. (CS)

Describes the tasks of the Industry/Education Unit (IEU), established within England's Department of Industry to deal specifically with changing the attitudes of young people toward industry. (CS)

Provides a coding system, with flow charts, for "Hazchem," which provides an application of the knowledge of chemical behavior to emergency situations. (CS)

Reviews and provides sources for acquiring three filmstrips and one film concerning the following topics: laboratory safety, energy and entropy in chemical reactions, and chemical bondings. (CS)

Ten methods of finding information are rated, based on a survey of professional practitioners. Three networks linkage systems, state-of-the-art syntheses, and a successful medical consultation (by telephone) service are described. (Available from: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 433 California St., San Francisco, CA 94194, single issue, $6.95.) (GDC)

Describes a competency-based, modular laboratory course emphasizing the synthesis and characterization of polymers and directed toward senior undergraduate and/or first-year graduate students in science and engineering. One module, free-radical polymerization kinetics by dilatometry, is included as a sample. (CS)

A wide range of resource material is available which explores various aspects of the problem of sex-role stereotyping. Much of this literature has applications in attracting women into nontraditional vocational-technical education programs. Readings are recommended concerning sexism in education, administrator resources, counseling material, and…

A parent discusses how he went about acquiring a computer for his child's elementary school through gathering donated parts from several institutions. (MP)

Outlines a variety of laboratory procedures, discussions, and demonstrations including in vitro contraction of muscle fibres and muscle proteins, sucrose density-gradient centrifugation, fern spore development, digestion of starch, construction of a small mammal trap, microscope selection, and occurrence and toxicity of mycotoxins. (GS)

Outlines a variety of laboratory procedures, discussions and demonstrations including the preparation and analysis of a square planar copper (11) complex, thermit reactions in a sand mould, product solubility, an aid for learning common oxyanions, thermal decomposition of nitric(v) acid. and nine others. (GS)

Outlines a variety of laboratory procedures, discussions, and demonstrations including a no-solder circuit board, damped to maintained oscillations with L-C circuits, polaroid strobe photos, resistive putty, soldering and circuit checking exercise, electromagnetic radiation, square pulses in C-R circuits, and testing an oscillating system. (GS)

Described are cultural journalism projects around the country which have used the "Foxfire Approach" successfully. "Foxfire" is a student-run magazine dedicated to the collection and preservation of the oral history, folklore and folklife (or traditional culture) of the students' own locality. Included is a list of…