Describes a curriculum design for preparing teachers to teach new elementary science courses. Presents a curriculum matrix" with three dimensions: intellectual skills, ordering schemes and aspects of the scientific enterprise. Key concepts taught in new elementary science courses are listed. (EB)

This book emphasizes the nature and ethos of science, the character of U.S. society and economy, and how people live, work, and communicate. The interaction of several cultural shifts calls for a unifying perspective of science education that is oriented toward helping young people cope with life in the 21st century and that is supportive of a…