Abstract
The Earth Science Curriculum Project is an interdisciplinary secondary-school science program initiated by the American Geological Institute. Its function is to study and evaluate earth-science materials and curricula now in use in secondary schools, and to develop and test new curriculum materials. Support for the initial phase of the program is being provided by the National Science Foundation. Preparation of new text and laboratory materials for use at the ninth-grade level began in August 1963. This step followed a thorough study of the current status and planning for secondary-school earth-science programs and of the content and sequential nature of earth-science subject matter, grades K-12. In the materials being developed by ESCP, emphasis will be placed on comprehension of a system of basic concepts and principles, rather than on coverage of the entire body of earth-science knowledge. An important theme that will be used in all text and laboratory materials developed by ESCP is the learning of mod...
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