The basic goal of the speech department at Evanston Township High School is to provide opportunities for each student to develop his innate talents and creativity and to develop means by which he may effectively communicate. The department offers twelve courses in the areas of speech communication, oral interpretation, radio-television, and…

Stanford's multidisciplinary program (1) encourages the combining of a concern over educational policy and educational changes with the competence to make rigorous and imaginative contributions to policy and change; and (2) develops an awareness of the relationship among policymaking in education, fundamental research in social science, and…

Prepared by a firm of consulting engineers, this booklet outlines the procedural "whys and hows" of assessing environmental impact, particularly for the construction industry. Section I explores the need for environmental assessment and evaluation to determine environmental impact. It utilizes a review of the National Environmental Policy Act and…

Written for those in educational technology and in general education, this report is intended to stimulate a reopening of dialogue and a renewed awareness of common interests between the disciplines of communication research and instructional media research. In stressing the more applied side of communication theory (i.e. those parts which seem…

This publication contains details of 18 science topics based upon the general science objectives stated by the Working Party on Secondary School Science for pupils in the third and fourth years of Scottish secondary schools who do not intend to take courses leading to the Scottish Certificate of Education examinations (see SE 015 432). The topics…

In the course of the Six Institutions' Consortium 3-year curriculum development project in Afro-American Studies, it became abundantly clear to faculty and student participants that the most viable curriculum that can be developed must be interdisciplinary. In response to this conviction, a seminar was held to emphasize the need for an approach to…

This booklet is the first in a series of Environmental Resource Packets designed to encourage college science teachers to become professionally competent in selected environmental areas of study. Produced unver a grant from the ESSO Education Foundation, each packet will consist of a review paper(s) and a selected and annotated bibliography which…

With assumptions in mind that the environment has emerged as a legitimate concern of our nation's schools, and that environmental education is interdisciplinary, the Maryland State Department of Education held a meeting for representatives from various parts of the country concerning the possibility of connecting education and the environment.…

This study was an experimental evaluation of achievement in understanding interdisciplinary science concepts by ninth grade students enrolled in two different integrated science courses. The experimental group used "Investigating the Earth", the textbook/laboratory program, developed by the Earth Science Curriculum Project (ESCP) staff.…

Part two of the first year in the Portland Project, a three-year high school integrated science curriculum, is contained in this student guide. This volume, one of four parts in the year course, involves activities relating to what is considered the most powerful unifying concept in science: energy. The macroscopic aspects of heat as embodied in…

This document describes the innovative approach that Minnesota Metropolitan State College, a recently established upper level college, has developed. It is felt that many of the aspects of the MMSC plan can be beneficial to planners in black colleges across the U.S. See also HE 003 464. (HS)

In addition to a summary of the proceedings of the Callaway Gardens Conference attended by selected science educators, scientists, and psychologists, invited papers by Robert Gagne ("The High School Science Program--A Psychologist's Assessment") and Clifford Swartz ("The High School Science Program--A Scientist's Assessment")…

Advocating reform of the history curriculum, this paper builds upon the "paradigmatic" impact of scientific advancement upon social and cultural, as well as intellectual and scientific, communities. Historians are constructing new paradigms of the discipline structure by stressing theory, methodology, and by relating historical knowledge to…

Prepared for the 1971 National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Annual Meeting, this collection of ideas, activities, and unit plans from the Mounds View Environmental Education Project would be useful for junior and senior high school teachers and curriculum planners. Content includes: (1) a senior high course outline and daily lesson plans…

Participants were acquainted with the conceptual and operational details of interdisciplinary education in allied health as carried out in the Kentucky January Prototype. The program was developed in terms of the Health Team Model for the past four years, and has created a source of information on many facets of developing and programming…