This report describes a comparison of two methods of instruction, traditional and hands-on science on students' achievement in science. The study included 40 students (most in ninth grade) at a rural high school in West Virginia. Findings indicate that hands-on instruction in science resulted in greater achievement than traditional instructional…

This study surveyed the degree of comfort expressed by prospective elementary teachers in using inquiry techniques when teaching science. Sixty-six students enrolled in three sections of the Elementary Science Methods course at a university in the northwest United States responded. The general perception expressed by these prospective elementary…

Results indicated that instruction by an experimenter using modeling procedures had a significant effect on Mexican-American six-year-old's production of causal questions, and that this behavior generalized to new stimuli without significant loss. (Authors)

Reflective teaching is indeed less structured than traditional education because it involves the students more meaningfully in the selecting and planning of learning experiences through cooperative teacher small group interaction. (Author/RK)

Contends that a well-done graphics program, with much of the work designed and/or executed by the students, makes students feel that the school belongs to them. Describes a trial graphics program to turn a dark, dreary basement space into a live learning place at an elementary school in Chicago. Offers suggestions for imaginative symbols for…

An authority on career education proposes a relation between this area and the social studies' thrusts of inquiry training and values education. He defines a new role for social studies in building a multidisciplinary approach to understanding an individual's economic role and social problems in general. (KM)

To the extent that class discussion is representative of the entire program, the dominant emphasis on memory and interpretation questions in this study suggests that the cognitive objectives of the two programs are remarkably similar. (Authors)

A classroom activity is described which encourages students to determine the use of an artifact from the pre-Columbian Iraquois. Primary emphasis is on creative and productive thinking. (JB)

The elementary unit kits, interdisciplinary and self contained learning systems comprised of a variety of learning activities and media which approach a social studies topic through a method of inquiry, are examined. (SM)

Fifteen interdisciplinary social studies units intended for 10th grade students but applicable to eighth and ninth grade students, dealing with universal issues in the hope that students gain insight into the behavior of man, are analyzed. (SM)

Inquiry strategies stressed in the multi-disciplinary materials designed for junior and senior high students with below grade level reading abilities are examined in this article. (SM)

The interdisciplinary social studies materials for sequential use in grades nine through twelve and designed to help each student develop into an independent thinker and a responsible citizen are assessed. Most class activities are organized around directed discussion working toward the objectives of inquiry skills, knowledge, values, and…

In this assessment two main concepts dealt with in the interdisciplinary course of history and political science are power and political structure. Strategies in the high school student materials are those associated with the method of inquiry into historical source documents that require interpretation and development of hypotheses. (Author/SM)

This article evaluates a project with an inquiry-based methodology in which high school students experience and attempt to solve the same type of urban problems faced by professional geographers. (SM)