Discusses summer workshops designed to help elementary teachers develop an earth science program for their schools. Includes descriptions of three lessons and related instructional strategies on rocks and minerals, topographic maps, and fossils. (BC)

Describes a workshop and pilot program in which over one hundred elementary school teachers attempted to procure an indepth awareness of the local community surroundings. The program was an attempt to further studies relating elementary science and social studies through "inquiry into an urban environment." (EB)