Making connections is always an important task for teachers. Science teachers are encouraged to connect new learning with students' prior knowledge, learning with student interests, learning with cultural experiences, and classroom activities across academic disciplines. Strategies that facilitate these connections help teachers enrich and enhance…

Many educators, librarians, and even some parents anticipate the publication of the Outstanding Science Trade Books (OSTB) for grades K-12 each year. wondered how Some wonder how the mountain of trade books out there gets evaluated or how books are chosen as "outstanding"? This list does not just magically appear but is the result of a careful…

Reviewed are the "New Junior Encyclopedia of Science" and the "AAAS Science Book List Supplement." (BB)

Announces the National Science Teachers Association publications How to Investigate the Environment in the City: Air and Water'' and How to Tell What's Underground.'' (AL)

"Science Work-A-Text" combines a text and workbook approach to studying/teaching grades 1-6 elementary science. Five major themes (living things; health/nutrition; planet earth; the universe; matter and energy) are covered at each grade level. Major focus of the series is on reading and content rather than process. (Author/SK)

Reviews a K-6 elementary science program entitled "Health Science" (D.C. Health), describing the content and format of student texts and teacher's guides and the nature of the activities. (DC)

The following materials are reviewed: a kit of task cards and posters called "Everyday Conservation;" a set of four curriculum guide booklets entitled "Environmental Education Interdependence;" a book in the UNESCO integrated science series; and an OBIS materials set. (MDR)

Listed are 100 trade books with brief descriptions and availability information. Categories include animals, biography, space science and astronomy, anthropology and paleontology, life sciences, earth science, conservation, medical and health sciences, physics, technology, and engineering. Criteria for inclusion in this annual list are presented.…

Describes the content of some instructional materials for elementary school students called The Sea Library to "develop a working ocean vocabulary and a sensory awareness of the ocean and its life." Also gives brief annotations for three teacher/student curriculum aid books. (GA)

Reviews the Environmental Education Activities Manual series, edited by William B. Stapp and Dorothy A. Cox. Selected activities from each of the six volumes of the set are described. Volumes are organized according to age level. (CP)

Learning Science is a program with text materials for grades one through six. The program attempts to combine the strong points of a process oriented elementary program with a more traditional textbook format. The six books include the topics: Things, Changes, Systems, Variation, Action, and Models. (Author/MA)

The books that appear in this annotated bibliography were selected as outstanding elementary science trade books published in 1977. The books were evaluated by a committee appointed by the National Science Teachers Association and the Childrens Book Council. Most books are for grades K through 6. (MDR)

Reviews the "Holt Elementary Science Series," favorably describing the format of the materials while identifying weaknesses and inconsistencies in illustrations, content, and vocabulary development. Presents a positive review of "Discovery Activities for Elementary Science" which provides a variety of environmental, physical, and life sciences…

In aiming to create a scientifically literate society, teachers are being asked to present science in a variety of new ways. Science is no longer to be seen primarily as a collection of facts and concepts, but rather, as a process of inquiry and discovery, similar to many of the decisions and actions all people make on a daily basis. The use of…