This document is the first of seven volumes included in the Rachel Carson Project. The project attempts to introduce environmental education lessons and units into existing courses of study within a high school rather than to implement environmental education through the introduction of new courses. This volume focuses on English literature by…

This document is the second of seven volumes included in the Rachel Carson Project. The project attempts to introduce environmental lessons and units into existing courses of study within a high school rather than to implement environmental education through the introduction of new courses. This volume focuses on the social science area by…

Newspapers are extensively used as the primary source material in all classes at Emerson Elementary School, Granite City, Illinois. Textbooks and other resources are used to supplement the daily issues of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat received at the school. Learning activities and the role of the newspaper vary in each classroom. The newspaper's…

Environmental education is the process of preparing people to make decisions and take action which will create and maintain optimal relationships between themselves and the environment which sustains them. This booklet provides an interdisciplinary environmental education curricular framework for K-12. Although this framework was designed by the…

The first part of this paper discusses the general decline in reading and writing ability in the United States and suggests several methods for improving literacy education, including teaching students the reading process several times a year from kindergarten through grade twelve. The second part of the paper makes two positive assumptions: that…

Intended to serve as a planning guide for teachers who become involved for the first time in the resident camping phase of an outdoor education program, this document answers the question of where to initiate the planning process and what sequential form the process should follow. Site familiarization is the first step to be taken, and information…

This is a progress report of an individualized three-year science course for use in the senior high school. The course integrates biology, chemistry, and physics with smaller amounts of astronomy, geology, meteorology, oceanography and space exploration. The course is currently in the second year of tryout in the Elk River, Minnesota, school…

This collection of readings, comments, and class notes has been prepared for the law student as an introduction to the research methods of sociology. The fundamental argument is, that in the growing use of social science by the law, the lawyer needs to know how the social sciences accumulate their evidence and build their theories. The materials…

A brief description of these materials is given in SO 000 276. This volume contains the last four sections of readings, comments, and class notes on: the problem of sampling, the problem of inference, measures of association, and data analysis. An 11 page bibliography of additional readings in methodology is appended. (SBE)

This document proposes that an Institute of Health Sciences be established as a new unit of the City University of New York (CUNY) within the framework of Hunter College in cooperation with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The Institute's bachelors and masters programs would prepare professionals to work with physicians on health teams. The…

This research identifies urban-oriented interdisciplinary instructional programs currently being offered at colleges and universities throughout the United States, presents an overall analysis of these programs, and ascertain the vocational and educational areas of pursuit chosen by graduates of these programs. Following a description of the…

To improve the quality of teacher education, the School of Education at Indiana University completed a reorganization effort that resulted in the Division of Teacher Education. Initially supported by an institutional grant from the U.S. Office of Education, along with a reallocation of funds within the school, the division was structured to meet…

Up-to-date knowledge about Skylab experiments is presented for the purpose of informing high school teachers about scientific research performed in orbit and enabling them to broaden their scope of material selection. The first volume is concerned with the solar astronomy program. The related fields are physics, electronics, biology, chemistry,…

National Humanities Faculty working papers are the result of faculty members' participation in or visits to humanities projects in schools across the country. The papers included in this document are reports to those schools and to the faculty on particular visits. Further documents in this collection, SO 007 915-918, have different…

Strategies are presented in this monograph for dealing with the interface of geography and education, and for providing a focus on human values and sensitivity. Factors contributing to a concern over environmental awareness are discussed. Geographic educators--teachers, supervisors, or administrators--can use this aid in handling values and the…