The study investigates a strategy for integration of a comprehensive urban environmental education program into an existing school curriculum. It reviews data on the development of environmental education, programs now in operation, and data on the subject community of Irvington, New Jersey. A product of the investigation was the development of a…

Reported is a study that designed a set of materials representing a spectrum of possible opinions on an environmental issue and tested the materials with ninth-grade students. Materials were obtained regarding strip mining. Judges ranked the materials on a five point scale from strongly supporting to strongly opposing strip mining. Materials on…

Considered is the problem of a need for experiential design awareness to enable people to deal more meaningfully with the environment. A survey of 165 institutions of higher education revealed that only 58 were offering undergraduate courses even remotely related to experiential design awareness and only 4% required the courses on a compulsory…

This thesis seeks to analyze the materials produced by the Project for an Energy Enriched Curriculum (PEEC). Specifically evaluated are the completeness and degree of bias characterizing the materials as an entity. In support of this end, examined are the nature and extent to which the materials treat future energy alternatives and the extent to…

The purpose of this study was to establish baseline data relating to the environmental knowledge and beliefs of fifth-year secondary students in England. The instrument developed for the survey consisted of three questionnaires, each containing a total of 45 cognitive and affective items. All items were pilot tested in nine English secondary…

This study attempted to identify specific social environmental factors of the home that are related to science achievement at the primary school level and to determine the extent of the relationships between achievement in science and the factors identified. A sample of 200 subjects were given three instruments in a group setting, a mental ability…

The author's primary goal was to investigate the relative viability of different kinds of open teaching. Project Learn, an open elementary classroom, met all the criteria set forth to be called such and was selected for the study. The independent variables were: teacher-guided instruction, small-group instruction, and individual-oriented…

The problem of the study was to determine the relative effectiveness of four combinations of alternative instructional approaches and sets of curricular materials dealing with the concept "populations" for teaching students at the fifth-grade level certain principles of environmental education as they relate to this concept. A total of…