Discusses five instructional strategies for increasing the meaningfulness of technical or scientific information. These include organization of prose, use of concrete analogies as advance organizers, use of inserted questions in prose, elaboration activities such as note-taking and discovery learning. (JN)

Discusses the nature of science as inquiry, differentiating between "science as inquiry" and "teaching/learning by inquiry." Provides evidence of confusion existing among teachers on the notion of inquiry and offers practical suggestions to teacher educators to help teachers better understand inquiry and to use the method in…