Describes analyses suitable for chemistry students studying polluted streams. Provides representative data, and suggests further exercises for interdisciplinary study. (AL)

Summarizes data from a Likert-type scale given to students of Nuffield and traditional science programs in England in 1966. Scientific interests and attitudes were more positive for the Nuffield group, non-scientific interests favored the traditional. (AL)

Reports affective changes of students studying PSSC Physics in grades 11 and 12. Students lost interest in physics, viewed scientists as more abnormal, but increased in acceptance of a non-authoritarian teaching situation. (AL)

Discusses approaches to curriculum development, emphasizing the decisions teachers desiring to design their own curriculum need to make. Considers specification of objectives; selection, sequencing, and organizing learning experiences and content; and the associated evaluation program. (AL)

Briefly describes the characteristics of process, topic, thematic, applied science, environmental, project, and concept approaches to science curriculum development, and explains why a patterns" approach was used in this project. Sketches the content, teaching, and evaluation of the course. (AL)

Outlines changes in the relative importance of technological Applications in selection of science course content. Argues that present lack of such examples may be disadvantageous. (AL)

Suggests changes for science curricula which will improve the understanding...of the scientific language in which the ideas of science and technology are expressed," including increasing the students' facility with numbers, and in the future, an interdisciplinary course demonstrating the approach of physical, biological and behavioral scientists,…