Presents several new products and equipment for teaching college science courses such as laser optics bench, portable digital thermometer, solar energy furnaces and blackboard optics kit. A description of all equipment or products, cost, and addresses of manufacturers are also included. (HM)

Presents a detailed discussion of the "Drinking Duck" toy and its use to illustrate scientific and technical issues in thermodynamics. Numerous illustrations and equations are included. (MA)

Presents findings on sex differences in demonstrating the principle of horizontality. Initially, female subjects had more difficulty with the concept than males. It is suggested that women suffer from lack of appropriate experience. (MA)

Describes the use of Forrester systems language as a framework for unifying an undergraduate interdisciplinary environmental science course. (MA)

Describes an introductory earth science course concerned with catastrophic events and processes in geology. Includes a section on lecture topics, readings, and visual materials. (MA)

Presents guidelines and content description of a course in electron microscopy. Discusses three types of learning modules: material preparation, instrumentation, and information processing. (MA)

Presents mathematical models appropriate to describing and analyzing competitive interactions in an ecological system. (MA)

Outlines the content of this interdisciplinary course and includes a list of the texts being used. Parts one and two are concerned with the biology of the whale and other marine mammals, while part three covers the whaling industry and related topics. (MA)

Describes a freshman introductory unit that utilizes team teaching techniques and close student-faculty relationships: Faculty from the divisions of Science, Social Science, Humanities, Rhetoric, and Psychology and Counseling cooperated in the designing and teaching of the course. The science segment includes lectures and laboratory exercises. (MA)

Reviews the Women in Science and Technology Equal Opportunity Act, which is designed to promote the full use of human resources in science and technology through a comprehensive program to maximize the potential contribution and advancement of women in scientific, professional, and technical careers. (Author/MA)

Describes how the synthesis of urea, 150 years ago, was a major factor in breaking the artificial barrier that existed between organic and inorganic chemistry, and this contributed to the rapid growth of organic chemistry. (GA)

Discusses anthropomorphic explanations and the use of teleological formulations in biology teaching. Examines whether the teachers' use of "pictorial language" is taken at face value by students. (Author/GA)

Investigates the possible relationships between the ability of introductory college genetics students to perform Piagetian formal operational tasks and their ability to solve problems requiring genetic analysis. (Author/GA)

Advocates the use of nonparametric techniques, when teaching data analysis to undergraduate life-science students, to circumvent their poor mathematical training. (GA)

Presents a set of exercises designed to take the student past cultural barriers to environmental awareness. The purpose is to pose environmental problems through contrived, open-ended situations, permitting a wide variety of approaches, attitudes, and values to come into play. (Author/GA)