The Compulearn system was developed for use in general education, special training, and business and industry to provide individualized instruction for all age groups in a wide range of career areas and occupational fields. The system apparatus consists of a battery-operated "console" box with two plugs, one for questions and one for…

This paper discusses two questions: How can newspapers be established as acceptable classroom reading materials in the secondary schools? and Why, until recently, have newspapers been so little used in the schools? Some of the answers provided to the first question are that the newspaper presents a viable means of keeping textbooks up-to-date in…

This book is addressed to the student who is preparing to teach English in the high school or to the young teacher in his first years of teaching. The first chapter discusses the components of a commitment to the teaching of English and the responsibilities the teacher faces in the teaching of language, literature, and composition. The subsequent…

Presents a dice-playing game which mathematically unsophisticated students and school children can play to learn empirically the principles of radioactive dating and population growth. (HM)

Presents activities for the fossilization process by using rust prints to simulate fossils. Photographs illustrate the procedures described. (HM)

Implementation plans and methodology for achieving the effective transformation of a traditional high school library to a Library/Media Center are given. (Author/MK)

Students with difficulty in maintaining grade-level performance at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf (Washington, DC) are learning mathematics and science skills using "The Voyage of the Mimi," a 13-segment video series and associated educational materials that detail a scientific expedition which is studying humpback whales. Team…

The development of educational technology media in Hungarian secondary education is discussed in terms of changing general pedagogical requirements; the influence of interactivity on teaching procedures; training teachers and developing educational media; and new statutory frameworks. (AEF)

This annotated list of 43 videotapes recommended for classroom use addresses various themes for teaching about the Holocaust, including: (1) overviews of the Holocaust; (2) life before the Holocaust; (3) propaganda; (4) racism, anti-Semitism; (5) "enemies of the state"; (6) ghettos; (7) camps; (8) genocide; (9) rescue; (10) resistance;…

This advisory list contains instructional media appropriate to the language program in schools for primary through senior high school grade levels. Entries, selected from those materials submitted by publishers which received favorable reviews by educators, are arranged by type: books, films, filmstrips, games, kits, recordings, or slide sets. An…

Instructional media appropriate to school social studies programs are listed by type of media: books, films, filmstrips, filmstrip sets, pictures, cassette tapes, slide sets, and workbooks. Entries were selected from those materials submitted by publishers which received favorable reviews by educators, and range from primary to senior high school…

In teaching Alan Paton"s "Cry, The Beloved Country," a high school English teacher made extensive use of mass media in classes of both bright and reluctant students. Oral reports by students, an in-class interview with a South African exchange student, two films on South Africa, and the record and film of the novel enhanced the…

An electronic simulation model was designed, constructed, and then field tested to determine student opinion of its effectiveness as an instructional aid. The model was designated as the Equilibrium System Simulator (ESS). The model was built on the principle of electrical symmetry applied to the Wheatstone bridge and was constructed from readily…

The problems in the workbook are designed to help the vocational high school student understand and become adept at working with decimals and percents. Emphasized are the use of decimals in money and the application of percents to problems in daily living. Topics covered include: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of decimals; the…