This teacher resource guide provides a listing of resources available in Georgia for teaching students about the environment. Resource regions are divided into North Georgia, Coastal Georgia, Middle Georgia, and the Piedmont. Each listing includes offerings, educational focus, history/comments, handicap accessibility, and directions for each site…

This document provides students, parents, educators, administrators, policy makers, and the public with a set of common guidelines for environmental education. These voluntary guidelines are intended to aid state and local efforts to provide quality environmental education. The guidelines suggest expectations for learner performance and…

Presents opposing philosophies relating to the nature of aggression in man. One position advocates that human aggression is the product of evolution and is inherited, while the other proposes a cultural pattern model of aggression and uses two empirical tests in an attempt to disprove the genetic model. (JR)

This brief list of references provides an overview of the historical development of college admissions requirements from their beginning at Harvard College in 1642 to the present time. (Author)

In illustrating how instruction in child development can reach everyone, the author quotes from Forum 22 on the Rights of Children, the Forum's recommendations to the President, and recommendations from the White House Conference on Children. Resource materials for child development teachers are discussed. The importance of parenthood education is…

Much career education material is now coming on the market. This is an early evaluation. Provides Title key words, grade levels, publishers, and descriptions. Ratings of teachers who would use the materials in classrooms. (Editor)

Discusses the historical background of the development of lightning conductors, describes the nature of thunderclouds and the lightning flash, and provides a calculation of the electric field under a thundercloud. Also discussed are point discharge currents and the attraction theory of the lightning conductor. (JR)

Discusses incidence of methylmercury poisoning throughout the world with increasing industrial and agricultural use of mercury compounds. Describes recent epidemic in Iraq resulting from use of wheat treated with methylmercurial fungicide. New data are presented on the toxicity of methylmercury and its metabolic fate in the human body. (JR)

Reports the rapid advances made in computer technology in China in recent years. Discusses the role of the institutes and universities, computer manufacturing, components, computer architecture, programming and applications, and the growth of computer technology. A table summarizes the principal characteristics of selected Chinese computers. (JR)

An historical investigation into the theory of valency as developed in the course of the second half of the 19th Century. Opposing views on one aspect of valency are examined and contrasted. (DF)