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Schmedemann, Gary Dean – 1970
Examined were the cognitive preferences of sixth grade students in relationship both to student involvement in a program utilizing Elementary Science Study Materials and to the teaching strategies employed by the teachers. Two-hundred twenty-six students of eleven teachers, who had taken part in summer workshops to gain experience in using ESS…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Science, Instruction

Netburn, Allan N. – Science and Children, 1975
Discusses the A-T approach in conjunction with a structured science program, such as COPES, which provides opportunities for independent study and student self-pacing and is a means for increasing student comprehension. This approach can also help absentee students catch up as well as students who enter mid-year. (BR)
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Individualized Instruction, Instruction, Learning

Billings, Gilbert – School Science and Mathematics, 1979
Investigates the effects upon concept acquisition of giving second-grade children the verbal labels of science concepts with which they have had concrete experience in a classroom setting using the interaction and evidence of interaction concepts from the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS). (HM)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science

DeRose, James V. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1980
Describes a collection of college chemistry demonstrations designed for self-paced classes. Some of these exercises stem from original ideas; others are adaptations of one or more published demonstrations. Two exercises, as examples, are also included. (HM)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, College Students, Higher Education
KARPLUS, ROBERT; THIER, HERBERT D. – 1967
THIS BOOK FURNISHES CURRENT INFORMATION ABOUT THE SCIENCE CURRICULUM IMPROVEMENT STUDY (SCIS) OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. IT IS PRIMARILY DIRECTED AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS, AND ADMINISTRATORS, BUT IT WOULD BE PERTINENT TO ANYONE INTERESTED IN NEW TRENDS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INSTRUCTION. THE ACCOUNT…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cognitive Development, Curriculum, Educational Objectives
Blosser, Patricia E. – 1984
This digest provides information about "Research Within Reach: Science Education. A Research-Guided Response to the Concerns of Educators," part of a series produced by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Inc., Charleston, West Virginia. (Previous volumes in the series focused on reading, elementary mathematics, oral and written…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Holdzkom, David, Ed.; Lutz, Pamela B., Ed. – 1984
This document consists of four sections. The first section includes two chapters which discuss the curriculum development projects of the 1960s and the goals of science education. The second section includes chapters which provide information about instructional strategies and systems, evaluation, the integration of science and other school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education

Sharan, Shlomo; Yaakobi, Duba – European Journal of Science Education, 1981
The Learning Environment Inventory (LEI) was administered to tenth-grade biology classes (N=572) in urban and kibbutz district schools in Israel. Findings indicated that seven out of nine scales of the LEI yield significant differences in scores for urban and kibbutz samples indicating a more positive learning climate in the kibbutz. (Author/DS)
Descriptors: Biology, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
Blosser, Patricia E., Ed.; Mayer, Victor J., Ed. – Investigations in Science Education, 1983
Presented are abstracts and abstractors' analyses of 10 studies related to science instruction and 3 studies related to science curriculum. Analyses in the first section (instruction) are on studies of: the influence of instructional structure and focus of control on achievement; effects of individualized audio-tutorial and frontal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation
Sampson, Sue Scott – 1977
This Unified Sciences and Mathematics for Elementary Schools (USMES) unit challenges students to learn or teach someone certain things (spelling, geometry, metric system). The challenge is general enough to apply to many problem-solving situations in mathematics, science, social science, and language arts at any elementary school level (grades…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Science, Interdisciplinary Approach