Reviews the space classroom that would have been conducted by Christa McAuliffe during the space shuttle flight. Includes lab activities, word puzzles, vocabulary lists, and graph reading exercises for elementary science students. (ML)

Offers experiments and activities designed to help students understand the qualities of sound. Provides directives on how to construct simple musical instruments. Suggests ways to help students discriminate differences in pitch, dynamics, and rhythm. (ML)

Provides: (1) background information on how the solar system began and the objects that make up the solar system; (2) seven activities; and (3) ready-to-copy student materials. Activities include objective(s), recommended age level(s), subject area(s), list of materials needed, and procedures. (JN)

Offers suggestions for activities that demonstrate the principles of osmosis. Explains how decalcified chicken eggs can be used to give students practice with measurement, experimental procedures, and science principles. (ML)

Offers an approach for teaching a unit on classification that combines various software programs with traditional science teaching methods. Provides procedural directives for the activities and explains the objectives of each exercise. (ML)

Stamps were used in a study which assumed that the frequency with which topics (in this case the water environment and its characteristics) were depicted on stamps would be a reflection of the interest that society as a whole held for that topic. Implications for science teaching are addressed. (JN)

Presents 23 experiments, activities, field projects and computer programs in the biological and physical sciences. Instructional procedures, experimental designs, materials, and background information are suggested. Topics include fluid mechanics, electricity, crystals, arthropods, limpets, acid neutralization, and software evaluation. (ML)

Describes the types, functions, and common locations of galls, providing suggestions for their collection and study. Also contains illustrations of several types of galls and identifies the insects that are associated with them. (ML)

A classical discrepant event involving surface area and volume can be illustrated by using paper, tape, and sand to make silos (one short, one tall) from two identical pieces of paper. Explanations of the activity and applications to packaging materials (cereal boxes) are presented. (DH)

Describes a one-day workshop in which teachers examined how science and art activities can be integrated in the classroom. Emphasis is on the activities, which can be used by elementary school children. (JN)

Suggests using squids for classroom investigations. Background information about these marine animals and a dissection activity are included. (JN)

Presents biology, chemistry, physics, and health activities, experiments, demonstrations, and computer programs. Includes mechanism of stomatal opening, using aquatic plants to help demonstrate chemical buffering, microbial activity/contamination in milk samples, computer computation of fitness scores, reservoir project, complexes of transition…

Provides directions for setup and performance of two demonstrations. The first demonstrates the principles of Raoult's Law; using a simple apparatus designed to measure vapor pressure. The second illustrates the energy available from alcohol combustion (includes safety precautions) using an alcohol-fueled missile. (JM)

Discusses a school program at the student laboratory in the Vancouver Aquarium. Includes descriptions of several stations in the laboratory (such as seashore ecology, protective mechanisms) and the associated student investigations. (JN)

Discusses the culturing of microorganisms as a laboratory activity emphaszing the growth of microorganisms in food. Provides background and safety information, procedures, and additional ideas. The complete unit (teacher's guide, student worksheets, evaluation and assessment, and resources for students and teachers) is available from the author.…