This qualitative study examines the transition of eight elementary preservice teachers into student teaching after participating in a science methods course that included a significant amount of teaching after-school science to elementary grade students. These eight participants had a chance to practice teaching inquiry-based science and to reform…

This report summarizes the activities and findings of the external evaluation of the "Science: It's Elementary" (SIE) program during the period from July 2009 through June 2010. The SIE program is managed by ASSET Inc. and overseen by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE). SIE is an initiative aimed at improving elementary…

Undergraduate college "science partners" provided content knowledge and a supportive atmosphere for K-5 teachers in a university-school professional development partnership program in science instruction. The Elementary Science Education Partners program, a Local Systemic Change initiative supported by the National Science Foundation,…

Section I of this report gives a brief background of the Three Phase Primary Science Project and the evaluation procedures used. Section II reports the results, organized in an overall analysis, and in analyses by standards (grade levels), phases, school situations, school agency, teachers' experience, and districts. A lesson-by-lesson analysis is…

This evaluation report is concerned with Phase 3 of the Three Phase Primary Science (TPPS) course piloted in Papua, New Guinea, primary schools in 1969 and which was to be taught in all primary schools in 1973. Phase 1 is a series of activities; Phase 2, a series of simple experiments for the pupils. Phase 3 is a series of more formal experiments…

This report summarizes the activities and findings of the external evaluation of the "Science: It's Elementary" (SIE) program during the period from July 2008 through June 2009. The SIE program is managed by ASSET Inc. and overseen by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. SIE is an initiative aimed at improving elementary science…

Described is the background and methodology of this study including the sample and the instrument development. Copies of the instruments are included. The success of the program as measured by these instruments is reported. (CW)

Detailed statistical information concerning elementary school science education in the 1961-62 school year is contained in this document. Survey information from the approximately 1,500 school districts participating in the study describe: (1) the enrollment and organization of public elementary schools; (2) the science curriculum, facilities, and…

The Situation, Objective, Solution (SOS) model was used to increase teaching time in elementary science in one school district in Oregon. Results of that effort could be duplicated in many similar school districts across the country. The role of teachers on special assignment in science is highlighted. (MP)

The Science Alliance, a coalition of industry, business, and educational institutions, developed and sponsored a partnership project to help elementary teachers overcome obstacles to teaching quality science. The intent of the Teacher-Scientist Partnership Project was to bring together the scientific expertise of scientists with the classroom…

This publication reports the results of a field study of middle school students using a unified science program, Interrelated Explorations in Science (IES). IES emphasizes the ideas, processes, and values common to all of science and utilizes independent study, gaming, dramatization, and values clarification activities to motivate students to…

Presented is an elementary school science program designed to offer a basic continuum of process objectives and concepts. A brief history of the development of the Wappingers Central School District's Elementary Science Committee is presented to help lay the groundwork for the redesigning of the science program described. Potential advantages…

Two major objectives of the Metropolitan Environmental Education Resources Study were: (1) to produce a directory of sites around Columbus, Ohio, having fieldtrip potential; and (2) to test the validity of the concept that field trips are a useful method in aiding student educational growth. The first section of this document relates the history…

Surveys of program graduates of a model science teacher education program were compared with responses from a national sample of exemplary teachers. Results indicated a high degree of similarity between the two groups and provided evidence that a good preservice science teacher education can have a positive effect on the development of preservice…

Described is an interpretive tour of an ecology exhibit that was integrated with lessons designed to improve Hispanic students ability to observe and make inferences. The study methods and results are presented. (CW)