Included is a collection of earth science laboratory activities, which may provide the junior or senior high school science teacher with ideas for activities in his program. The included 48 experiments are grouped into these areas: properties of matter; evaporation; atmospheric moisture and condensation; precipitation; moving water, subsurface…

The population for which this instructional program has been found to be effective includes preservice and inservice elementary teachers who teach science. At the end of this instructional module, the participants should be able to: (1) given a set of data and a set of statements about the data, distinguish between those statements of fact and…

Provided are 45 experiments in chemistry which have been used successfully by students in secondary school chemistry classrooms. Additional investigations directed at further inquiry on the part of the student are included. The experiments are directed at the development of science process skills and many of the concepts and generalizations which…

This publication contains descriptions of space science activities that can be conducted with simple equipment. There are activities suitable for both elementary and secondary school children. Activities are placed under the headings: Astronomy, Atmosphere, Universal Gravitation, Aerodynamics, Guidance and Propulsion, Tracking and Communications,…

This handbook represents an attempt by UNESCO to give a broad picture of the kinds of out-of-school activities that are designed to engage the participation of young people in different parts of the world. Out-of-school activities, as used in this publication, refers to educational activities undertaken or done outside the formal teaching periods…

By using this instructional module the participants should be able to: (1) predict the behavior of two magnets prior to their being placed close to each other; (2) identify and describe the magnetic forces acting on a bar magnet that is free to rotate; (3) demonstrate a method for determining the lines of force in a magnetic field; (4) identify…

This manual is intended for use with the PINE (Projects in Imaginative Nature Education) discovery box in elementary school conservation education. The box contains 21 natural specimens which can serve as the starting point for simple student investigations. Specimens and activities are keyed for grade level. For each item, background information…

Included are two of the eight units of the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study materials designed for grade nine students. These are "Why you're you" (genetics), and "Crusty problems" (earth science). The first unit includes basic chapters and "excursions" which extend some of the ideas developed in the basic…

Included is the first half of the chapters and excursions of the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study materials designed for grade eight students. Although I.S.C.S. is an integrated science course, most of the concepts developed in this volume relate to chemistry. Introductory notes to the student explain how the book is to be used. Each chapter…

This teacher's guide to the experimental edition of the second volume of the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study materials includes a general discussion of chemical ideas developed in the course, instructions for preparing solutions and handling equipment, and detailed notes for each chapter and excursion. Chapter and excursion notes give an…

Included is the second half of the chapters and excursions of the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study materials designed for grade eight students. Although I.S.C.S. is an integrated science course, most of the concepts developed in this volume relate to chemistry. Introductory notes to the student explain how the book is to be used. Each chapter…

These materials represent the first third of a coordinated science program for grades seven through nine. The materials have been prepared according to the following Intermediate Science Curriculum Study rationale: (1) science at the junior-high-school level should serve a general education function, and (2) both processes and concepts should be…

Presented is a teacher's guide to an elementary science unit designed for use with fourth grade, or higher, students in the Trust Territory of Micronesia. Although there is a degree of similarity to curriculum materials developed for the Science Curriculum Improvement Study, this Micronesian unit does not purport to be an adaption or edition of…

Presented is a teacher's guide for an elementary science unit designed for use with first grade students in the Trust Territory of Micronesia. Although there is a degree of similarity to the curriculum materials developed for the Science Curriculum Improvement Study, this Micronesian unit does not purport to be an adaptation or edition of the SCIS…

This teacher's guide is for an elementary school science unit designed for use with third grade (or older) children in the schools of the Trust Territory of Micronesia. Although there is a degree of similarity to curriculum materials developed for the Science Curriculum Improvement Study, this Micronesian unit does not purport to be an adaptation…