The author addresses the structuring of a science and mathematics curriculum by creating a model for the learning experience. The model is based on learning hierarchies. (SD)

A course entitled Mathematics and the Environment was developed to show the relevance of mathematics to contemporary problems and to increase awareness of the magnitude of environmental problems. (SD)

A study to identify characteristics of a policy analyst essential to his performance analyzed curriculum and academic disciplines represented in schools of social policy. All programs require workshops or internships and economics and statistics. Seventy-five percent require political science and 75 percent quantitiative methods. (The Rand Corp.,…

Report on the advantages and disadvantages of the interdisciplinary cluster system at Oakton Community College (Illinois) after five years. Reviews effects on students, faculty, administrators, and curriculum. (RT)

A four phase ecological working model for the clinical evaluation and coordination of services for the child with a handicap is presented. (Author/SBH)

Two processes are identified as central to the achievement of liberal arts goals in a field setting. They are reciprocity and decentering, both implying the coordination of multiple perspectives on the experience. (Editor/LBH)

Presented is a unit composed of activities for teaching weather. Topics include cloud types and formation, simple weather instruments, and the weather station. Illustrations include a weather chart and instruments. A bibliography is given. (MA)

The Saginaw Valley (Michigan) Special Needs Clinic serves visually impaired children and adults, multiply impaired low vision persons, and developmentally disabled persons with vision problems and is based on a client-centered concept involving health professionals, rehabilitation specialists, special educators, consumers, and social agency…

Art appreciation activities can reinforce hearing impaired students' reading, writing, and reasoning skills. Three such activities involving the works of Grandma Moses are (1) reading and researching about art and artists; (2) attending an artist's exhibition; and (3) attempting to paint like a chosen artist. (CB)

The environmental chemistry program at Vassar College consists of undergraduate- and graduate-level coursework in environmental chemistry, a research program, and a program of involvement with environmental problems in the Mid-Hudson area. Various aspects of this interdisciplinary, integrated program are discussed. (JN)

In the Mini-Society program intermediate grade students create their own microcosmic version of an adult economy. This study showed that in addition to increasing students' economic understanding, Mini-Society also improves the students' mathematical reasoning. (RM)

A proposed course featuring the teaching of chemistry to nonscience majors in the context of detective fiction is described. (MSE)

Advocates taking education from a labor-intensive emphasis to a capital-intensive emphasis. Argues this can be done through the classroom use of technology such as computers and VCRs. (RKM)

Suggests activities that allow three- to eight-year-old children to experience science in their everyday world. Science experiences can spin off into art, music, mathematics, literature, and other areas of the early childhood curriculum. (BB)