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Teachers can help their students to integrate concepts from various disciplines and to develop an appreciation for the complexities of the environment through creative instructional strategies and imaginative uses of educational media. This involves teaching from an environmental perspective. This paper introduces an instructional model that uses media as a foundation for creating and implementing strategies that both teach and reinforce concepts from an integrated environmental perspective. A curriculum integration matrix (CIM) is used to help teachers link ideas from two or more subject areas. Steps in the instructional process include: (1) identifying the main subject topic, lesson subtopics, target concepts, and available teaching time; (2) describing the lesson content; (3) choosing additional integration topics using the subject table; (4) focusing on the integrated topic; (5) deciding on presentation method and instructional media; (6) describing or sketching the integrated media; and (7) completing the matrix by summarizing the process and rewriting the fully integrated lesson. Four figures illustrate the model and process. (Contains 28 references.) (SLD)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert