The unit presented in this teacher's guide is one of two developed for the sixth and final year in the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) curriculum. The concept of a scientific model is introduced in this unit with activities directed toward increasing student understanding of electric and magnetic phenomena through concrete experience…

Four study segments of the Self-Paced Physics Course materials are presented in this eighth problems and solutions book used as a part of course assignments. The content is related to magnetic induction, Faraday's law, induced currents, Lenz's law, induced electromotive forces, time-varying magnetic fields, self-inductance, inductors,…

Discusses the principle of generating electron beams, some of their current applications as a high energy content source, and their potential for technological development. (GA)

Presents a few illustrations of physics areas such as capacitors, free fall, vectors, and waves, to show that methods of presentation of specific topics, in some physics textbooks, produce in the average student the wrong impression and ignorance of important scientific facts. (GA)

Notes that Houston's voluntary approach to desegregation, including the magnet schools, seems to be meeting with both judicial and public approval. (Author/AM)

Describes a procedure to demonstrate the effect of a magnetic force on a moving charge. The materials used are inexpensive and with the use of an overhead projector, easily visible to an entire class. (CP)

Discusses activities with magnets and magnetism for elementary students. (SL)

Provides an introduction to Debye potentials and simplified derivations of the multipole expansions of electrodynamic fields. (SL)

Considers the merits and faults of the voucher system and compares it to the magnet school concept, which embraces the favorable aspects of the voucher system while minimizing the principal objections to such a system. (Author/RK)

Describes a physics experiment for demonstrating magnetic lines of force. (SL)

Describes the options available to parents and students within the Milwaukee public school system, which includes traditional school programs along with over 40 citywide speciality schools, such as those focusing on the arts, language immersion, math/science education, and computers, and those focusing on career specialties. (DMM)

Parental choice of schools results in racial isolation or effective integration, depending on how choice is used and regulated. The role of choice in desegregation plans is compared. The Buffalo plan is hailed as most successful in that it desegregated the schools, distributed costs and benefits fairly, and strengthened education. (VM)

Discusses how the success of magnet programs depends heavily on the partnership between the school and the businesses associated with the magnet specialty. Magnet specialties discussed include applied technology, communications, international studies, science and mathematics, transportation, and retailing. (CT)

Discusses performing arts high schools that train students in general education and music, visual arts, theater, and dance. Enumerates purposes, advantages (mainly, a challenging and motivating atmosphere with opportunities to concentrate in one area), and problems (funding, understaffing, academic standards, and admission criteria). Advises…

Analyzes the role of magnet schools in stimulating and changing linkages between the community and public education. Analyzes the effectiveness of marketing methods such as the following: (1) public relations, (2) student recruiting, and (3) information dissemination. Considers their impact on the community-school relationship. (LHW)