The purpose of this information booklet is to look closely at the organization of the educational experiences of two fourth-year forms in two English urban secondary schools who studied some features of their immediate environment. The first 6 week field project, Houses and Flats: A Planned Enquiry into the Local Area, involved 34 low ability boys and girls in a modern school in a residential area. Historical maps were consulted and information extracted through sketch maps concentrating attention on the land use changes from a rural to a high-density urban residential area, and leading into an enquiry about the cultural, economic, social, and moral consequences for the people living there. An interdisciplinary approach resulted: geography, history, English literature, aesthetics, and social problems. The second 6 week student project, Derelict Land: Seizing on the Neglected Areas, involved 40 boys and girls in a fifty year-old school amid the tangle of industrial communities that have merged to make up the Black Country. The derelict site is a slag and ash covered colliery, blast furnace, and worker cottage area. Two groups worked on carefully teacher guided surveys of the area; four other groups concentrated upon historical and geographical features of land use, industrial development, and population changes; and, two others emphasized social implication of planned redevelopment. Questionnaires, maps, group class discussion, drawing, small group field work and followup work were methods used in both projects. (Author/SBE)