Describes an ecology exercise suitable for secondary school students in which the school grounds may be used to study communities in association with woody plants. (JR)

Describes a cure for the high school chemistry student with Second Semester Poisoning (SSP), the student disease of apathy which occurs in the spring. Remedy: an outdoor (preferably) demonstration of a series of controlled combustion experiments, with accompanying explanations of the chemistry involved. (MLH)

Presents a scheme for the construction of an item bank containing questions from all subject areas and levels of science. This bank would be made available to teachers in an item booklet which would work in conjunction with a computer-bank system. (GS)

Examines the task of adding historical perspective to the structure of chemistry while teaching the basic chemical knowledge associated with a high school course. Suggested instructional methods include a biographical approach with a newspaper article format, a storytelling technique, and a detective approach. (GS)

Discusses the implications of proposed legislation which would prohibit the teaching of either the theory of evolution or creationism unless both are taught and relates this area of controversy to the relationship of science and politics, to the question of what is to be accepted as appropriate curriculum, and to attempts to instill fundamentalist…

Presents a brief discussion of lightning and its causes; makes the point that lightning kills more individuals than do the more-widely publicized tornadoes. (PB)

Outlines a project in which the students calculate their family's energy budget. Presents efficiency guidelines for various appliances that convert to heat or kinetic energy. (GS)