Presents a list of courses, programs, and workshops for earth science teachers at colleges and universities in 35 states and Canada. The list contains entries ranging from introductory earth science courses to full scale undergraduate and masters degree programs designed especially for earth science teachers. (MLH)

Intended to encourage elementary teachers to explore coastal ecology with their students, this guide presents background material, activity suggestions, and recommended resource materials that could be used in designing a week-long unit on Coastal Awareness. Discussed is how various physical processes such as waves, tides, and currents affect…

The course content, specific objectives, and evaluation for a science teaching methods course required for students planning to be secondary school science teachers in the biological, physical, or earth sciences are described. (CS)

This document consists of a series of astronomy activities for intermediate grade students. It contains three major teaching sections. Teacher Section I deals with stars, constellations, and galaxies and presents a series of demonstrations, discussion topics, readings, and hands-on-activities. Teachers Section II is concerned with a planetarium…

The Survey of Oceanic Attitudes and Knowledge (SOAK) was developed as a method of measuring knowledge and attitudes of tenth grade students and relating those attributes to the students' marine experiences. Fifteen coastal and fifteen inland schools in Virginia were randomly selected as sources of subjects for the study. Analyses of data from 787…

Included in this science activities energy package are 14 activities related to solar energy for secondary students. Each activity is outlined on a single card and is introduced by a question such as: (1) how much solar heat comes from the sun? or (2) how many times do you have to run water through a flat-plate collector to get a 10 degree rise in…

The Hawaii Marine Science Studies (HMSS) Project has developed over twenty instructional units, which include student laboratory and field investigations, teacher guides and supplementary reference materials. HMSS units can be taught as a one or two semester course in high school marine science, or selected portions can be combined as marine…

This publication is intended to be an aid for secondary school science teachers in providing some additional student-oriented activities to enrich the earth science program. These activities have been classroom tested by teachers and have been considered by these teachers to be educationally successful. This publication is a product of the Earth…

THIS MANUAL FOCUSES ON METHODS BY WHICH STATE DIVISIONS AND LOCAL CHAPTERS OF THE IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE AND SIMILAR ORGANIZATIONS CAN BE EFFECTIVE IN EDUCATING THEMSELVES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES. IT MAKES SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS FOR GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL ACTION. IT DOES NOT DEAL, IN GENERAL, WITH PROFESSIONAL TRAINING BUT WITH ENLISTING THE PARTICIPATION…

INCLUDED IN THIS MANUAL WRITTEN FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEACHERS ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF DEMONSTRATION MODELS, EXPERIMENTS PERTAINING TO SOME OF THE FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS, AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING SIMPLE WEATHER OBSERVATIONS. THE CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF TOPICS WERE EASE AND COST OF CONSTRUCTING APPARATUS AS WELL…

Descriptions of about 100 secondary-level activities that can be done on the school grounds are presented. Among the lessons included are a study of life in sidewalk cracks, methods of estimating animal populations, soil testing, constructing and using triangulation instruments to map the school area, and creative writing exercises. Although most…

This document provides a detailed outline of performance objectives and test items for an introductory secondary level earth science course. (SL)

This course of study was developed under the supervision of the State Department of Education and in cooperation with junior high school teachers, senior high teachers, school administrators, and college and university personnel. It is being made available in order to help teachers lead youngsters to become "actively engaged in the science…

Investigated was the ability of children at different grade levels to develop and form an abstract science concept which required the recognition of a continuum. Direction in forming the continuum was given by having children order a number of pictures to form the continuum which represented the cycle. The ability to form such a concept was…

This guide is designed to assist teachers of the intermediate level grades in the preparation of students to visit the Strasenburgh Planetarium. This initial preparation and follow-up are essential because the programs are given to groups of 240 students and consequently there is little opportunity for individual discussion with the planetarium…