Describes how television in Norway provides reading experiences for viewers on many levels. (RB)

This curriculum guide is for use by teachers and its purposes are: (1) to describe the purpose and content of electricity-electronics courses, (2) to provide a suggested course outline with student and teacher activities and instructional aids, (3) to promote coordination between intermediate and secondary programs in Arizona, and (4) to suggest a…

Intended primarily as an aid for secondary teachers of American literature, this book discusses fiction in which the hero is a young person. The techniques of teaching content and style of literature are presented. Twenty-three works of fiction are considered. (DB)

The results of a survey on the use of eleven types of audiovisual materials by mathematics teachers in New South Wales are presented. (SD)

Provides tables and graphs that give a complete and simple picture of the relationships of image distance, object distance, and magnification in all formations of images by simple lenses and mirrors. (CP)

This article, directed at teachers concerned with computer science courses at sixth-form level with no prior knowledge of microprocessors, provides a basic introduction, and describes possible applications of a microprocessor development system as a teaching aid in computer sciences courses in UK secondary school. (Author/RAO)

Described is the use of instructional technology at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf at Gallaudet College to support its instructional program. (BD)

Reviews the goals of the California State Department of Education's Technology in Curriculum (TIC) projects. Provides several examples of technology use and identifies several pieces of software which are being successfully used in high school social studies classes. (JDH)

A look at the need to integrate communication studies with other studies in secondary schools. (AK)

Suggests how to incorporate conventional textbooks into innovational teaching in high school social studies courses. Suggestions include: ask students to alter time lines in textbooks according to their own interests, examine bias of textbook author, react to author's language, and focus on daily life during a particular historical period. (DB)

Describes models for selection, genetic drift and migration for teaching high school biology. (LS)

Brief suggestions are given on the following topics of interest to chemistry teachers: rate of reaction anaologies, a buffer effect demonstration on the overhead projector, and a year-end activity in general chemistry based on the student's laboratory skills. (BB)

In response to an expressed need for inexpensive biological models for blind students, the American Printing House for the Blind has developed a set of 19 plastic models (schematics), which illustrate representative species of the major invertebrate phyla and component structures of flowering plants. (Author)

Shortcuts to use when performing operations with the calculator are given. Algorithms discussed include reciprocals, powers, parentheses, infinite series, and synthetic division. (MP)