Included are most guides for a one-year course in senior high school chemistry. The guides may be interchanged at the teacher's discretion, following any text sequence or course outline. Each guide consists of six sections: (1) an approach, which briefly discusses the unit in terms of background material, pitfalls to be avoided, and suggested…

This report of the findings of the working group on "recruitment" of the International Congress on the Education of Secondary School Physics Teachers held in Hungary in September, 1970, includes reasons for the shortage of physics teachers (low salaries, excessive class load, lack of prestige, and inadequate programs of teacher preparation),…

Mathematical approaches to teaching cell structure and physiology and the probability aspects of genetics were used in each of two types of biology courses: one using the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) Yellow version and the other using Otto and Towle's "Modern Biology." Tests of lateral and vertical mathematics transfer, biology…

The Australian Science Education Project is producing materials designed for use in grades 7-10 of Australian schools. This is the first trial version of a unit investigating microbial action. One of the student booklets contains instructions for the activities demonstrating food decay which all students are expected to complete. The other student…

The Australian Science Education Project is producing material designed for use in grades 7-10 of Australian schools. This is the first trial version of a unit providing instruction in microscopy. Illustrations of each step in setting up, focusing, preparation of mounts, microscopic measurement, and cleaning and packing the microscope are included…

The various systems for communicating with manned and unmanned spacecraft are described in this pamphlet written for general science students. The pamphlet is one of the NASA Facts Science Series (each of which consists of four pages) and is designed to fit in the standard size three-ring notebook. Review questions, suggested activities, and…

The Flanders system of Interaction Analysis is used to determine whether a teacher is indirect or direct in his approach to motivation and control in the classroom. The system describes, rather than evaluates, teacher behaviors in the order in which they occur, in any subject at any level. It does not, however, include nonverbal behaviors and…

Four seventh grade life science classes, given curriculum materials based upon Piagetian theories of intellectual development and Skinner's theories of secondary reinforcement, were compared with four control classes from the same school districts. Nine students from each class, who(at the pretest) were at the concrete operations stage of…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between a laboratory-content-oriented secondary science methods course and the development of selected teaching competencies by pre-service secondary science student teachers. A sample of five student teachers were selected for study during their student teaching experience. Several…

Investigated was the relationship between Science Concept Retention by high school science students six months after completion of a course in BSCS biology, CHEMS chemistry, and PSSC physics with each of the following variables: I.Q., Sex, Science Achievement, Natural Science Development, Reading Comprehension, Quantitative Thinking, Delay…

Investigated was the effect of the use of 20 Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) Single Topic Inquiry Films upon the critical thinking abilities and process skills of high school sophomores enrolled in BSCS Blue Version biology. Instruments used were the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal and Processes of Science Test. The results…

The 144 worksheets contained in these two packages (one package for each of the first two years of a Scottish science course based on the syllabus developed by the Working Party on Secondary School Science and described in SE 015 432) have been designed to suit a broad ability range of students between the ages of about 11 and 14. The sheets…

The syllabi included in this package outline the science courses to be taught in the Technical Schools of the Education Department of Victoria (Australia) in grades seven through ten. There is a separate syllabus for each grade, with two parts for grade ten. Each syllabus contains a statement of aims, a list of the topics to be taught (including…

This booklet in the "World of the Atom" Series replaces the earlier Books on Atomic Energy for Adults and Children. It includes annotated bibliographies for children (grade level indicated) and adults. Over 60 books are classed as elementary and over 70 as advanced. These are alphabetized by title and also indexed by author. A list of…

Performance objectives are stated for each of the secondary school units included in this package of instructional guides prepared for the Dade County Florida Quinmester Program. All three units deal with mathematical applications or concepts in physics dealing with mathematical relationships: "Scientific…