Students often attain memorable experiences from cadaver dissections through reflective writing. For many, facing a dissection for the first time elicits a wide range of emotions. These may include thoughts of their own mortality to the sheer admiration of knowing that someone cared enough to help others learn about the body, even in death. Poems…

In this study, five elementary teachers and a university researcher developed and implemented problem-based learning (PBL) experiences in the context of science teaching and learning. Collaborative inquiry was adopted as a methodology, while a variety of qualitative methods were used to examine the engagement and development of teachers'…

The use of interactive computer graphics in an undergraduate science curriculum is explored. (Author)

The article reviews the current status of special curriculum for gifted learners and proposes a new perspective for the development of mathematics and science curriculum at grades 6-12. Recognition of the need for accelerated content within a conceptual framework that incorporates principles of current technology is emphasized. (Author/CL)

This document describes science benchmarks for grades K-8 in Earth and Space Science, Life Science, and Physical Science. Each subject area is divided into topics followed by a short content description and grade level information. Source documents for this paper included science content guides from California, Ohio, South Carolina, and South…

Increased awareness of color, sound, smell, and touch turns kids into pollution combatants. (Editor)

Teaches the concept of migration. (FF)

Science is now unchallengeable as part of the pattern of school studies, although it is not at all clear what the precise justifications for its position are, or how profound a relationship with it is considered desirable once children have made the curriculum choices. Promotes science for liberal study. (Author/JK)

The futile attempt of a massive school system" to shift with changing moods is illustrated by the swing away from science. Within less than a decade the mood of the schools went from wild enthusiasm about the hard sciences to what might be characterized as a mild distaste for these disciplines and indeed for disciplines of any kind. (Editor)