This curriculum guide is designed as a basic outline of course content, teaching procedures, and emphases for life science in Grade 7. Guidelines for teaching units are prefaced by a list of basic themes of science. Each unit includes a short introduction for the teacher, suggestions for student activities, a list of emerging concepts, and lists…

A number of activities designed to develop each of six concepts listed for each of six conceptual schemes are presented. The conceptual schemes are: (1) Matter may be transformed; under ordinary (classroom-laboratory) conditions it is not created or destroyed; (2) Energy may be transformed; under ordinary conditions it is not created or destroyed;…

These guides are four of several prepared through the F.D.A.'s Science Project Series for senior high school chemistry students and teachers investigating the quality of constituents of foods through experimentation. Each eight page pamphlet gives background information on the subject, equipment and reagents needed for the experiment, the…

This is a catalog of instructional films for college chemistry, designed for use by chemistry and other science teachers. The films in this catalog are listed in topical arrangement, which consists of (1) preparatory topics, (2) structure, (3) interaction of radiation with matter, (4) physical states, (5) formulas, equations and calculations, (6)…

This study was designed to determine whether advance organizers in the form of visual aids might serve the same function as Ausubel's verbal advance organizers. The basic design of the study consisted of a 4 X 3 X 2 ANOVA factorial design. Ninety-six eighth-grade students were involved in the study. One group was exposed to a physiographic diagram…

Guidelines are given for the preparation of test items and tests for BSCS (Biological Sciences Curriculum Study) biology, including examples of items testing four major kinds of abilities: ability to repeat or use information and meanings, ability to apply principles, ability to apply intellectual skills crucial to the understanding of biological…

To illustrate a system for analyzing research reports, four published evaluations of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) program were analyzed in terms of problem raised, previous work cited, objectives stated, hypotheses formulated, assumptions made, population studied, sample drawn, instruments used, design examined, procedure…

This manual contains instructions for laboratory exercises using marine organisms. For each exercise a problem is defined, materials are listed, possible ways to solve the problem are suggested, questions are asked to guide the student in interpreting data, and further reading is suggested. The exercises deal with the measurement of oxygen…

This is the third edition of a manual developed for students participating in the oceanology program offered on the Orange County's Marine Science Floating Laboratory. The program is experience-centered and provides for the students utilizing much of the same equipment used by professional oceanologists. The manual is divided into two sections:…

This report presents the procedure, results and conclusions of a study designed to test the hypothesis that there would be no difference in the number of acceptable laboratory reports submitted by students in a ninth-grade science course under a schedule of continuous reinforcement where the teacher graded every report, as compared to the number…

Investigated were the feasibility and effectiveness of using programed materials with concomitant laboratory exercises in teaching genetics on the secondary level. Students from two white and two Negro high schools in the Atlantic Public School System participated, with one control and one experimental biology class in each school taught by the…

These earth science transparencies were designed and developed by personnel from Texas public schools, colleges, and universities, the Texas Education Agency, and the United States Office of Education. Each visual master has been designed to correlate with modern instructional and curricular approaches in the earth science area. Each visual has…

The validity of statements by various "national curriculum projects" concerning the availability of research evidence to support their claims for the attainment of their objectives is questioned. Evaluation procedures employed by these various curriculum development groups are criticized for lack of empirical data. Obtaining such data is…

An instrument, "The Assessment of Cognitive Transfer in Science Inventory," was designed to evaluate cognitive performance in biology. The instrument is based on students' verbal responses to a structured sequence of situations and questions. Items were classified in terms of a modification of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. The…

A classroom observation instrument was developed for investigating teacher and student behaviors associated with the maintenance of an inquiry atmosphere where Earth Science Curriculum Project materials are used as a course of study. This instrument was later used in ESCP classrooms to determine its reliability and usefulness in describing teacher…