Earth Science in Ohio's Secondary Schools

Author Institution: College of Education, Ohio University, Athens, OhioEarth science has been initiated into many high school curricula in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania during the past decade. With the availability of Earth Science Curriculum Project materials, many more schools will be including earth science in their science offerings. This study attempts to assess the status of earth science in Ohio by means of a questionnaire survey, made in 1964-65. A short questionnaire was mailed to each of sixty earth science teachers in 52 high schools in Ohio. Analysis of the 51 completed returns provided the following data: In 1964-65, earth science was taught at all grade levels in some of the high schools. It was offered to students at all ability levels, though some schools offered it only to higher ability students. There was very little opposition to the initiation of earth science in the schools; most teachers felt that earth science should be expanded in their schools. Although the background preparation of the teachers in the earth sciences was not impressive, most of the teachers had substantial backgrounds in the other sciences and were willing to improve their training through attendance at summer institutes in earth science

review of Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World

The engine behind [European imperialism and colonization] was the fur trade, a vast, complex, too often misunderstood commerce that drew Europeans deep into the interior of the continent, enmeshed its native peoples in the global economy, and helped trigger almost 125 years of imperial war for possession of America. Susan Sleeper-Smith has done this important subject a considerable service with Rethinking the Fur Trade. In a massive, elegantly appointed anthology, she has provided graduate students with a comprehensive summary of modern scholarship in the field, instructors with a sophisticated and variegated classroom tool, and scholars with an invaluable historiographical reference

John B. Skinner, interviewed by Arthur Ruston, Part 2

John B. Skinner, interviewed by Arthur Ruston, November 17, 1977, at Mr. Skinner\u27s home on State Street, Veazie, Maine. Mr. Skinner, age 70, has lived his entire life in Veazie. Skinner speaks about his memories of Veazie, older houses in town, notable people, sections of town, family genealogy, and his life as a photographer. Listen Part 1. mfc_na1132_t1195_01 Part 2. mfc_na1132_t1195_02https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf064/1036/thumbnail.jp

review of Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

Eric J. Dolin’s Fur, Fortune, and Empire is a concise, engaging, and remarkably comprehensive survey of the American fur trade. Though aimed at a general readership, the author presents a broad-ranging, sophisticated story of the commerce, supported by nearly a hundred pages of citations. The author says that the inspiration for the book came from a passage in James Truslow Adams’s The Founding of New England: “The Bible and the Beaver were the two mainstays of the Plymouth Colony in its early years.” He knew something about Pilgrims and something about the fur trade, but nothing of the Pilgrim fur trade. From this, Dolin set out to explore the role of the trade in the founding of America and its expansion westward

John B. Skinner, interviewed by Arthur Ruston, Part 1

John B. Skinner, interviewed by Arthur Ruston, November 17, 1977, at Mr. Skinner\u27s home on State Street, Veazie, Maine. Mr. Skinner, age 70, has lived his entire life in Veazie. Skinner speaks about his memories of Veazie, older houses in town, notable people, sections of town, family genealogy, and his life as a photographer. Listen Part 1. mfc_na1132_t1195_01 Part 2. mfc_na1132_t1195_02https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf064/1035/thumbnail.jp

The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes

The Upper Country melds myth and conventional history to provide a memorable tale of French designs in the middle of what became the United States. Putting the reader on the battlefields, at the trading posts, and on the rivers with voyageurs and their allies from the Indian nations, Claiborne Skinner reveals the saintly missionaries and jolly fur traders of popular myth as agents of a hard-nosed, often ruthless, imperial endeavor. Skinner\u27s engaging narrative takes the reader through daily life at posts like Forts Saint Louis and Michilimakinac, illuminates the complexities of interracial marriage with the courtship of Michel Aco at Peoria, and explains how France\u27s New World adventurism played a role in the outbreak of the Seven Years War and the beginning of the modern era. In this story, many of the traditional heroes and villains of American history take on surprising roles. The last Stuart kings of England seem shrewd and even human; George Washington makes his debut appearance on the stage of history by assassinating a French officer and plunging Europe into the first truly global war. From unthinkable hardship to dreams of fur trade profits, this fascinating exploration sheds new light on France and its imperial venture into the Great Lakes

Plane-flame simulation of the wake behind an internally propelled vehicle. Part 2 - Simulation of a subsonic vehicle by a heat source

Flow field about an internally propelled vehicle in steady motion at subsonic speed, analyzed by method of characteristic

Plane-flame simulation of the wake behind an internally propelled vehicle. Part 3 - Experimental simulation of a supersonic vehicle by a detonation

Detonation wave simulation of flow field induced by supersonic vehicl