Explains how students are able to interact with a team of interplanetary scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) by using the Iowa Communications Network (ICN). Discusses the professional development component in detail. (DDR)

Lists the benefits of hands-on experiments that are both low-cost and high-tech. Details four examples which include the use of contact lenses and compact disks. (DDR)

Argues that there are only a few cases in which solubility and Ksp are related in a simple way. States that illustrations of the solubility product principle for one-to-one salts are adequate for students. Contains 23 references. (DDR)

Summarizes a study evaluating state standards in science. The treatment of evolution, which varies tremendously in quality from state to state, is discussed at length. In some states--Arizona for example--evolution is completely ignored in the life sciences. Highlights local political battles. Describes good evolution curricula in Connecticut,…

Explores reasons why some capable women enter engineering fields while others do not. Identifies highly significant variables associated with correct post-hoc classification of young engineering majors as opposed to humanities majors. Contains 17 references. (DDR)

Compares the achievement in science for ninth grade students in China and the United States. Reveals a small difference between the two groups and presents a rationale for the comparison. Contains 31 references. (DDR)

Delivers an account of how curriculum and cultural change was mediated by "educational actors" over the last century, employing pragmatic arguments for reform which drew on the metaphoric power of scientific achievements. Contains 70 references. (Author/DDR)

Attempts to collate various approaches that have been made around the world to first-year issues in engineering education. Reviews the literature and discusses the results of a survey. Contains 54 references. (DDR)

Describes instruction in an urban sixth-grade classroom in which students are learning about mass, volume, and density by attempting to layer three miscible solutions of differing densities atop one another. Contains 24 references. (DDR)

Explains the Core Skills framework which emerged as part of the Higher Still Development Programme in Scotland at the same time as similar developments of Key Skills in the rest of the United Kingdom. Describes the unique aspects of the Scottish program. (WRM)

Combines some guiding principles of antiracist education with Vygotskian notions of education as enculturation to produce a set of proposals for a radical form of multicultural science education for sociopolitical action. Outlines a radical form of curriculum development involving the politicization of teachers as the only effective way of…

Addresses some criticisms of the Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education (CASE) project. Offers a different description of the CASE teaching method and presents evidence from the program. Contains 20 references. (Author/WRM)

Describes the mission of land-based tribal colleges and universities to create educational math and science models, overcome obstacles in teaching, and keep native tribal students focused on their sense of place and culture. Asserts that faculty strive to make science important to students and encourage them to dream of positively influencing…

A biology curriculum that reflects the practice of biologists, based on a clear description of what biologists know and do, would provide some pupils with a basis for future scientific work and all students with basic scientific literacy. Contends that the British National Curriculum contains an inadequate representation of the work of practicing…

Describes the MAOF physics education program which is designed to relate large parts of mechanics and electromagnetism to each other via the key concepts of field and potential, while at the same time treat students' conceptual difficulties. Finds that students who studied with the MAOF program significantly improved their physics knowledge…