This research project provides an individualized format for a three-year integrated junior high school science curriculum. The purpose of the study was to assess the relationship between student self-ratings on such variables as (1) ability to operate independently of the teacher, (2) use class time effectively, (3) develop their own plan for…

In 1987, the Cheshire Public Schools initiated a science curriculum review. Teachers, parents, and students recognized that the existing textbook-based elementary science program was a dismal portrayal of such a dynamic discipline. There was community consensus that reading about science and acquiring scientific vocabulary words were not the same…