Describes a science-oriented photography program offered during the summer to sixth-grade students. The program aims to increase visual literacy, and students spend considerable time in planning, taking, arranging, and using self-made photographs for the intentional communication of meaning. (JR)

Describes a classroom activity designed to interest and motivate students in science. By comparing scientific experimentation to the processes employed in planning, playing, and analyzing the results of a football match, students become more aware of the similarity between activities in their lives and in science. (JR)

Discusses the development of single concept or skill laboratory investigations in an inservice summer workshop and their successful use in the classroom. Included are two examples, respectively, relating to operation of a triple beam balance and classification of phases of matter. (CC)

Describes the laboratory procedures for the measurement of thermal expansion and viscosity of liquids. These experiments require inexpensive equipment and are suitable for secondary school physical science classes. (JR)

Describes several activities which can be used, by the teacher, as class demonstrations or projects to stimulate student interest in weather phenomena. (JR)

Briefly outlines ways in which kites may be used in the junior high school science and mathematics curricula. (JR)

Discusses a number of concepts (turbulence, dispersion, vertical temperature distribution, atmospheric stability and instability, and inversions) which are prerequisite to understanding how weather affects air quality. Describes classroom demonstrations effective in introducing these concepts to students at the elementary, secondary and college…

Discusses the design of two experiments on the reactions of 1-Chloro-1, 2-diphenylethane and of C-5 halides with nucleophiles in an inservice teacher course. Indicates that the material can be applied in teaching chemistry at both secondary and college levels. (CC)

Teacher gives a list of individual projects in her outdoor science unit. (GB)

Discusses the benefits that students gain from the production of a science newspaper. Provides guidelines relating to the editing procedures and content which should assist in the production of a worthwhile student newspaper. (JR)

Presents a list of topics, research areas, references, and laboratory equipment which is prepared to facilitate general-science students' understanding of physics aspects in accelerated reference frames after their study of circular motion and Galilean relativity in mechanics. (CC)

Describes an experiment which yields low-volatility phenylacetylene, and suggests the use of the liquid product to examine alkyne chemical reactivity in organic chemistry courses. (CC)

Describes a variety of experiments that can be performed using the disposable syringe. Among others, these include the removal of oxygen during rusting, convection in a liquid and in air, gas collection in an electrolysis cell, small scale production of a fog, and hydrogen/oxygen extraction from a voltameter. (JR)

Describes activities carried out entirely off campus by 18 nonscience-major undergraduates in a beginning course which is designed to help them learn to observe, to ask questions, and to seek for answers. (CC)