Describes management procedures which have been developed to facilitate and coordinate staff efforts in a biology learning center at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. (HM)

Describes how to organize Learning Centers, the basic curriculum decisions to be made with respect to learning objectives, activities, materials involved, and the process of evaluation to monitor pupils' progress. (GA)

Describes a computer model kinetic theory experiment for the college physical chemistry laboratory. (HM)

Describes in detail the construction of an improved version of Hero's engine that is easy to operate and has a short response time. (GA)

Describes an exercise which familiarizes students with organic chemistry terms and introduces preferential degradation reactions. (CP)

A colorimetric procedure for the determination of serum iron for use in freshmen and sophomore level quantitative analysis laboratories is described. (CP)

A number of science museums and science-technology centers throughout the United States are making computers accessible and understandable to the general public. A five-stage model of public access to computers is introduced, and ways of implementing the first level, special public access, are described.

Describes an experiment for general chemistry students for analyzing bathroom cleansers. (SL)

Describes a laboratory exercise illustrating the use of the Cannizzaro reaction in synthesis, the production of commercial resin, and the importance of natural products in industrial chemistry. (SL)

Short reports contributed on a variety of biology topics are presented. (CP)

Short reports contributed on a variety of topics in chemistry are presented. (CP)

A variety of topics in physics are covered by these contributed teaching and laboratory equipment suggestions. (CP)

The set-up and checking-out of a simulated chemical pilot plant as part of a chemical engineering technology lab is described. (BB)

Associates science teacher "bad days" with the inability to answer the questions asked by students. Proposes that publications focus on providing the answers to recurring questions experienced by science teachers. (CP)

This experiment, mixing solutions of potassium iodide and lead nitrate to give a bright yellow lead iodide precipitate, often leads students into other topics such as making paint from the precipitate. (BB)