Discusses strategies used to integrate the teaching of high school biology and English. One major effort involved students writing and/or modifying the scripts for slide and filmstrip presentations. (JN)

Including both social studies and language skills objectives, this unit of study encourages senior high school students to examine and wrestle with issues concerning nuclear warfare. Activities suggested are many and varied, e.g., students read and discuss fiction and nonfiction, analyze films, do library work, write essays, and conduct surveys.…

Music is a geographical and a temporal phenomenon which pervades every society. How music can be used to teach basic geographical concepts, to reflect the central themes of North American geography, and to explain the relationship between art forms and the tastes of a culture is discussed.

Lists 18 statements that form a synthesis of social science concepts. This synthesis was prepared in the late 1950s but was never implemented. The California History Social Science Framework is a new attempt to encourage the integration of social science concepts. (CS)

Describes On Lok, a long-term care approach which has assumed responsibility for providing all services needed by a functionally dependent adult population. Based on the first two years of operation, descriptive data on the service system, its development, participants served, services given, and costs are presented and interpreted. (JAC)

Describes the Foundations Program at Mohegan Community College, an interdisciplinary program providing individualized instruction in English, reading, and mathematics. It is team taught and designed to be developmental and corrective as well as remedial. (DC)

Considers music's role in the arts-in-general-education movement. Also identifies misconceptions that specialists often have about their involvement and cites evidence that arts-in-general-education programs actually strengthen existing music curriculums. (Editor/RK)

Reviews present trends in community college social science curricula and presents a new approach for teaching world history, world literature, and world art as an integrated discipline. (DC)

Describes a new type of education system based on scientific humanism. Ways in which this type of education system would better serve technological man in the modern mechanical world are described. (Author/DB)

The purpose of this paper was to determine the effectiveness of a seminar on drug knowledge and attitude among school personnel. (Author)

Teachers in several disciplines have a serious commitment to consumer education. Four models are offered to help them plan cooperatively for consumer education programs in their schools: (1) team approach to teaching, (2) two-teacher course, (3) coordinated content within several courses, and (4) informal coordination in a small school. (Author/AJ)

A description of a comprehensive remedial program involving: (1) diagnostic and counseling services; (2) English and mathematics study laboratories; (3) developmental programs in reading and study skills; and, (4) tutorial services at Memphis State University. (Author)