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Peer reviewedCollins, Clarence – Science Activities, 1976
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Educational Media, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Peer reviewedAlusik, John – Science Activities, 1975
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Instructional Materials, Meteorology, Science Activities
Peer reviewedOringer, Richard H. – Science Activities, 1985
The article outlines an activity for providing a hands-on opportunity for elementary and middle school science students to study the theory of the earth's crustal change over the past several hundred million years. The theory of continents drifting away from one super continent is presented with the supportive evidence that scientists have…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Geography, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedWallingford, Claudia – Science Activities, 1977
Describes school science activities in which students race model cars built from mousetraps, construct inventions using discarded junk, and compete in an egg dropping contest. (SL)
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Problem Solving, Science Activities
Peer reviewedDemske, Debra N. – Science Activities, 1978
Presents a mini-environment project as a valuable teaching tool for presenting ecology. The procedures for setting up a mini-desert in the classroom are presented as a model. Basic components of the mini-environment project are also included. (HM)
Descriptors: Ecology, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Peer reviewedHunt, John D. – Science Activities, 1978
Described is a mouse cage that can be built, at a cost of about $15, by intermediate-aged elementary students. (BB)
Descriptors: Animal Husbandry, Animals, Biology, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedvannan, Donald A. – Science Activities, 1974
Describes several activities which can be used, by the teacher, as class demonstrations or projects to stimulate student interest in weather phenomena. (JR)
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Earth Science, Elementary School Science, General Science
Peer reviewedMurphy, James E. – Science Activities, 1973
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Elementary School Science, Opinions, Resource Materials
Peer reviewedShugrue, Sylvia K. – Science Activities, 1992
Presents year-long, elementary science projects that address the question of why daylight hours vary in length according to locality. Provides three instructional units designed to commence in September, including data collection activities for sunny days encouraging later classroom calculations; on-going graphing activities; and modeling…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Earth Science, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Peer reviewedHickey, M. Gail – Science Activities, 1992
Uses shoeboxes to set up science kits to supplement specific areas of the science curriculum. Each kit contains a set of material and instructions for a single activity. The activity is intended as an individualized experience that is related to a current topic of study or that reinforces a recent topic. Details for making six sample shoeboxes are…
Descriptors: Biology, Earth Science, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
