Discusses how computers are used to teach historical research. Describes an honors course at University of Texas (Austin) taught by the author that presents the computer as a tool rather than an end in itself. (GEA)

Describes a summer course in chemical engineering. Includes discussions of the course program, course goals, student performance, and course faculty. Lists examples of informal experiments which have been used, and prerequisite courses that are required for students to enroll in the course. (CW)

Attempts to infer a standard definition of language skills as they relate to English for academic purposes, focusing on the four traditional skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Skills may or may not include language functions and structures, and they usually imply tasks. (Author/CB)

Describes an introductory course required of all engineering students at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Canada). Discusses the design of the course, including its emphasis upon the facets of engineering careers, direct experience, and written and spoken communication. (TW)

Illustrates how one mathematics department has added courses to widen pupils' views of mathematics and to improve their problem-solving ability. (PK)

Describes a college-level course that develops an awareness and understanding of environmental issues through instruction of mathematical concepts and processes, presenting sample mathematical problems which illustrate how environmental issues are used as themes for teaching mathematical skills. Also provides a list of annotated references for…

Describes a 15 period unit of study for secondary social studies on the Holocaust. Included are objectives, a description of each lesson, and an open-format unit test. (JDH)

Describes how a field research site provides grauduate soil physics students with practical field-oriented experiences. Explains the structure of the course and the nature of the course's investigations. Assesses the advantages and obstacles associated with the field research technique. (ML)

Identifies five major aims for teaching about the United States in European secondary schools. Presents the content of eight themes for achieving these aims: (1) stereotypes; (2) location; (3) environmental diversity; (4) human response; (5) the peopling of the United States; (6) the U. S. political system; (7) the United States as a global power;…

Describes a course designed to introduce trained teachers to some of the differences and difficulties they may encounter when teaching in a secondary school in a developing country as opposed to teaching in a British school. Language, lack of equipment, and cultural context are addressed. (JN)

Describes how the Educational Software short course produced by the Open University Micros in Schools project trains inservice teachers to select suitable educational software for classroom use. Findings of a formative evaluation of an activity in the course in which teachers examined three commercially produced educational software packages are…

Outlines a fourth-grade geography and social studies unit adopted by the London, Ontario, Canada, school system to help Ontario schoolchildren develop positive views of the people of Quebec and their environment. The unit stresses the inherent beauty of human heterogeneity and the advantage of learning more than one language. (RM)

Compares engineering and nonscience students studying energy concepts in two separate courses. Considers their approaches to solving problems, their views on personal participation in "sociological" solutions to the energy problems, and other areas. Implications for engineering education are addressed. (JN)

A four-day project which involved kindergarten and first-grade classes in making a collection of animals from clay is described. (RM)

Activities that an intermediate grade teacher used to make geography relevant to her students are described. The students researched their own family heritage. To learn about another culture, they adopted a country and did library research concerning the country's economy and culture. (RM)