Over 60 energy education activities comprise this manual for junior high school teachers. These lessons are experience-oriented and emphasize questioning, the use of reference materials, data collection, and discussion. For every grade level, three activities dealing with each of seven recurring conceptual schemes are provided. Lesson plans…

This document provides a materials guide containing annotated bibliographies of literature for teachers and students, a film guide, and a curriculum materials guide for educational sources relating to hunger, food, and the world food crisis. Materials span the range from pre-school to grade 12. (SL)

This teacher's guide describes seven audiovisual programs developed around the planet Mars. While these programs were developed primarily for use in secondary school science classes, several are appropriate for language arts, drama, art, and photography. Each program starts with the showing of a film or video-tape developed by the National…

This is part of a series of modules intended to present guidelines to teachers for evaluation of secondary science programs. It contains the directions for use and the report form. (SA)

This is a condensed report of a study commissioned by the Minister's Advisory Committee on Student Achievement (MACOSA) to study student achievement in science at grades three, six, nine, and twelve in Alberta, Canada. Baseline information for future assessments and a summary of student achievement of curricular objectives were to be provided.…

This volume contains papers presented at the eighth Annual Conference of the Australian Science Education Research Association held at Riverina College of Advanced Education in May, 1977. Paper topics include: (1) the nature of science problems; (2) logical connectives in science; (3) a model of cognitive processes; (4) measures of meaningful…

CONTAINED IN THIS TEACHER'S GUIDE FOR LIFE AND EARTH SCIENCES ARE BIBLIOGRAPHIES, DEMONSTRATIONS, AND EXPERIMENTS. BOOKS ARE LISTED FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE WHICH COVER A WIDE RANGE OF SUBJECTS, INCLUDING NATURE STUDY, BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, AND PHYSICS AS WELL AS MORE HIGHLY SPECIALIZED FIELDS OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES. TEXTBOOKS LISTED INCLUDE…

THE FIFTEENTH IN A SERIES OF 17 VOLUMES, THIS VOLUME PROVIDES THE NINTH GRADE TEACHER WITH A GUIDE TO THE REORGANIZED SCIENCE CURRICULUM OF THE MENNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE MATERIALS ARE INTENDED TO BE AUGMENTED AND REVISED AS THE NEED ARISES. THERE IS A BRIEF SUMMARY OF SUBJECT MATTER CONTENT FOR GRADE 9, AND A CHART OF GRADE CONTENT…

THIS RESOURCE BOOK OF ACTIVITIES WAS WRITTEN FOR TEACHERS OF GRADES K-6, TO HELP THEM INTEGRATE AEROSPACE SCIENCE WITH THE REGULAR LEARNING EXPERIENCES OF THE CLASSROOM. SUGGESTIONS ARE MADE FOR INTRODUCING AEROSPACE CONCEPTS INTO THE VARIOUS SUBJECT FIELDS SUCH AS LANGUAGE ARTS, MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL EDUCATION, SOCIAL STUDIES, AND OTHERS. SUBJECT…

THIS CATALOG CONTAINS ANNOTATED LISTINGS OF 16MM. FILMS, 35MM. FILMSTRIPS, AND 35MM. SLIDES FOR INSTRUCTIONAL USE IN THE MARINE SCIENCES. PARTS 1, 2, AND 3 LIST THOSE WHICH ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE CARTERET COUNTY MARINE SCIENCE PROJECT, AN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT TITLE III PROJECT. PART 4 LISTS A-V MATERIALS AVAILABLE ON FREE LOAN…

COURSE TOPICS, CONCEPTS, LEARNING ACTIVITIES, AND TEACHER REFERENCE INFORMATION ARE INCLUDED IN THIS TEACHER GUIDE FOR AN EXPERIMENTAL INSTRUCTIONAL BLOCK ON THE TOPIC "TAKING CARE OF OURSELVES". MAJOR TOPICS INCLUDE (1) UNDERSTANDING HOW WE LEARN, (2) MAINTAINING HEALTHY BODY SYSTEMS, AND (3) DEVELOPING BENEFICIAL PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR.…

Investigated was the effect of different types of laboratory reports on measured outcomes of the Chemical Education Materials Study (CHEMS) Chemistry. Compared were procedures using essay laboratory reports, mimeographed laboratory sheets prepared by the investigator and completed by the students, the laboratory manual for the course completed by…

Developed was a set of behavioral objectives which indicate (1) the processes of inquiry used by physical scientists, (2) the components which make up the structure of the physical sciences, and (3) the relationship among these various processes and components. A content analysis of a random sample of 50 books written by scientists and…

Reported is a comparative study on the attitudes of physics and chemistry students in high schools toward science, scientists, science teachers and "myself as a scientist" compared with those of students who had taken neither course. A semantic differential test, a sentence completion test, and a word association test were used in the…

This Conference brought together practicing educators at all levels to present their methods and techniques of utilizing the concept of the marine sciences within the educational spectrum. Included are descriptions of extant programs, discussions of specific ways to use the marine environment for instructional purposes, papers directed at the role…