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Relation of some of the modern concepts of mathematics to teaching in the secondary schools
(1957-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This study was written in an attempt to convey to the high school mathematics teacher some of the connotations of "modern mathematics". It discusses some extremely simple, but basic, concepts ...
Brief analysis of sex determination
(1965-08)
Scope and Method of Study: In this report, the writer has attempted to compile some pertinent data concerning the factors that influence sex determination. The materials used were textbooks and periodicals on Genetics and ...
Enrichment of high school science opportunity by utilization of a program for student laboratory assistants
(1961-05)
Scope of Study: Two problems facing the secondary science teacher are finding time to prepare materials and apparatus for laboratory work and arranging time for students with high level ability to work on projects in which ...
Teaching wildlife conservation as a part of biology in the secondary school
(1962-05)
Scope of Study: Conservationists agree that the greatest hope for the disappearing wildlife is education. The study of biology provides a natural approach to the development of conservation concepts and practices. This ...
Tissue and cell culture
(1963-05)
Scope of Study: This report has been prepared to give helpful suggestions to inexperienced workers in the field of tissue culturing. It is almost impossible to explain every detail of such a subject as tissue culturing. ...
Collection, care, and use of living animals in the high school biology laboratory
(1963-08)
Scope of Study: Biology is a study of living things and things that may have once been alive. It is "living things" which present the biology teacher with his problems, for the maintenance of living things requires time ...
Laboratory testing of classes in high school physics
(1957-05)
Scope of Study: Testing of work covered in the high school physics laboratory seems, at the present time, to be an unusual practice. On the basis that a systematic, objective method of evaluating laboratory work will be ...
Fire: An ecological factor in grassland
(1963-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This report is essentially a survey of the literature dealing with fire as an ecological factor in grassland areas. However, investigations which deal with anatomy, physiology, and non-grassland ...
Experimental projects in paper chromatography for high school laboratory work
(1958-05)
Scope and Method of Study: The use of paper chromatography is very wide spread in applied chemistry, but is seldom mentioned in high school text books. Because of this fact, a selection of several projects for high school ...