Most academic science educators encourage teachers to provide their students with access to more authentic science activities. What can and do teachers say to increase students' interests in participating in opportunities to do real science? What are the discursive "resources" they draw on to introduce authentic science to students? The purpose of…

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between textbook authors', teachers', and safety specialists' danger potential rankings of selected elementary school science activities. A questionnaire was constructed using twenty-two activities selected from elementary science textbooks which involved potentially dangerous materials…

A brief lesson is presented on ways in which things become clean or are cleaned. Two hands-on experiments are described: one in which students learn to sequence, and the other in which students learn about the differences between fact and opinion. (CB)

Activities and information relating to dinosaurs are presented, including: study of warm- and cold-blooded animals; research about recent dinosaur discoveries; track-making; studying and making fossils; and extinction theories. (CB)

Investigates the behavior of the air fern in a search for its proper name. Concludes that the material is not a live plant but instead a dead animal that has been dyed. (CP)

Presents an activity involving reaction time developed for the Science of Sports, a traveling exhibition put together by Ohio's Center of Science and Industry. (JRH)

Presents activities and exercises on the production and direction of currents in fluids. (JRH)

Presents an activity in which students make their own cartoons and discover how to create the illusion of motion. (NB)