Paper presented at the 1968 Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers (CASMT) Convention, St. Louis, Missouri

Describes techniques for the preparation of simple soaps and detergents that can be used, by students, to investigate their properties and the differences between the two classes of compounds. (AL)

The first of two brief articles describes the programming of a traditional English Physics course for the Sixth Form; the second describes the activities and specimens used in an introductory exhibition'' in Nuffield Combined Science at one school. (AL)

The author describes a special experiment making peanut brittle and amusing activities based on chemical nomenclature used as motivational tools. (CP)

Described are activities that are designed to help elementary children understand the possibility of the particle theory of matter. Children work with beads, marbles, B-B shot and sand; by mixing these materials and others they are led to see that it is highly possible for the existence of particles which are not visible. (BR)

Suggests that preschool science programs should be creative, manipulative, investigative, and should grow out of a permissive interaction with the environment that surrounds the child. (BR)