Considers the teaching method of individualizing instruction and offers some suggestions for implementing this method in classroom practice. (PEB)

Reports an investigation designed to determine if curriculum adoption in earth science resulted in a change in teaching behavior. (PEB)

Identified and briefly described are sources of federal funding for the purchase of instructional materials. (PEB)

Presents a discussion of the concept of scientific literacy from the perspective that this concept is a challenge to our abilities to understand, to verify, and to evaluate and apply rather than a goal to be sought. (PEB)

Discusses the establishment of a resource bank for teachers and illustrates this idea by reference to the Oklahoma Earth Sciences Educational Improvement Systems Project (OESEISP). (PEB)

Three science educators present their views concerning competency-based teacher education. (PEB)

Advocates that science teachers move from an emphasis on the discipline of science to one of helping learners see the short-, intermediate-, and long-term effects of their actions in regard to energy. Science teachers must, in the authors' opinions, go far beyond the traditional limits of science teaching. (PEB)

Provides a background biography of coal and its place in our national development. (Author/PEB)

Described are some of the methods available for converting coal into "clean" energy. (PEB)

The author elaborates on the thesis that much of the confusion and argument about the role of nuclear energy in meeting the energy needs of the nation and the world is caused by failure to place the known facts in perspective with respect to time, to hazards that accompany the use of energy in any form, to economics, and to ultimate limitations in…