This guide, developed by a panel of teacher consultants, is a correlation of educational media resources with the "North Carolina Curricular Bulletin for Eighth Grade Earth and Space Science" and the state adopted textbook, pModern Earth Science." The three major divisions are (1) the Earth in Space (Astronomy), (2) Space…

Reviewed is research on instructional procedures used to teach science in secondary schools. This part, the first of a two part review, discusses studies emphasizing outcomes obtained from generalized instruction in a classroom or classroom-laboratory setting. Outcomes discussed include knowledge of science content and concepts, understanding the…

Thirty-eight secondary school teachers from seven public school systems attending a five week full-time institute at Montgomery Junior College participated in this summer program. The teachers were introduced to the newly available Earth Science Curriculum Project materials. Three college teachers and an experienced ESCP high school teacher…

As part of an updated series of activity oriented educational materials dealing with aspects of the Guam environment, this publication deals primarily with the marine environment of Guam. Developed for junior and senior high school students of this island, this material can be adapted to marine studies in other areas as well. Contents deal with…

This document examines a system for integrating reading into the earth science curriculum. Such topics are examined as to why the earth science curriculum can benefit from reading program participation, competency based instruction in content courses, reading/thinking competencies in earth science, assessing reading competency in earth science,…

The National Association of Geology Teachers (NAGT) conducted an assessment of the implications of current studies encompassing the theories of continental drift, polar wandering, sea-floor spreading, and plate tectonics to K-12 education, and presented in this document recommendations for the incorporation of these concepts into school curricula.…

This book is a curriculum guide for seventh-grade general science. It contains four units of chemistry, physics, biology, and earth science. Each unit is divided into sections covering major concepts. Each section contains science activities and contains explanations of objectives and implementation of the lesson. At the end of each section are…

The purposes of this study were: to determine the degree to which student attitudes were changed by the use of minicourses and to produce a model which could be used by other academic departments interested in the use of minicourses. The study included 240 students in four sections of Earth Science at the University of Northern Colorado. Each…

A review of 132 research documents is presented for the purpose of describing and categorizing research and development in science instruction on the college level. The documents are limited to publications, dissertation abstracts, and abstracted research and development reports, primarily appearing during 1968-69. Descriptions are made concerning…

As a replacement of the 1949 primary training manual for supplementary aeronautical weather reports, instructions are presented in this Training Paper No. 5 for the purpose of guiding learners through their study of the Weather Service Observing Handbook (WSOH) No. 4. The content is divided into six chapters concerned with such topics as…

This unit of instruction was designed to introduce the student to the elements of weather through a study of the instruments used to measure the elements and the U.S. daily weather map. The booklet lists the relevant state-adopted texts and states the performance objectives for the unit. It provides an outline of the course content and suggests…

This unit, one of a series being developed for Australian secondary school science courses, consists of a teacher's guide, two student booklets, a test booklet, and a student workbook which also contains answers to questions raised in the student booklets, and a answer sheet containing comments on the answers to the questions in the test booklet.…

The booklet contains information about an experimental space science survey course which explores the tools and methods used to study space. Included are a list of 22 performance objectives, an outline of the content in the course, lists of experiments, demonstrations, and projects for the course and the books in which these are to be found, a…

This report synthesizes and summarizes the presentations and discussion at the 1970 Conference on Training of Marine Technicians in the Junior Colleges. These issues relating to marine technology education are considered: how valid manpower predictions can be translated into meaningful program development; how involvement between potential…

This booklet, one of a series developed by the Frederick County Board of Education, Frederick, Maryland, provides an instruction module for an individualized or flexible approach to secondary science teaching. Subjects and activities in this series of booklets are designed to supplement a basic curriculum or to form a total curriculum, and relate…