Purposes of the study were (1) to construct science lessons to teach selected intellectual skills to kindergarten children, and (2) to develop group non-reading tests which would measure the growth of the intellectual skills of observation, classification, data treatment, and measurement in kindergarten children. Lessons and evaluations were…

This annual report covering the period June, 1969 to June, 1970, is an evaluation of Project Outdoors, a Title III ESEA funded environmental education center in southeastern Connecticut. Evaluation embraces the major thrusts of the project, that is, developmental work with teachers at the Natural Science Center and local school sites via…

Described is research undertaken to determine the nature of existing undergraduate programs for preparing elementary teachers to teach science. College faculty members and administrators, undergraduate students, recent graduates, and elementary school administrators and supervisors were interviewed. In addition to interview data collected, the…

This two-cassette recording of a session of the 1969 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science contains five presentations related to the association's report on preservice science education of elementary school teachers. The papers describe the origins of the report and provide an overview of its contents (Herron);…

Compared were teachers classified into one of four categories depending on the type of training they received in the usage of "Science-A Process Approach.""Lead" teachers received special workshop training and then taught inservice courses to other teachers who were subsequently categorized as "Inservice" teachers.…

This pilot study was concerned with developing instructional materials for a single conceptual scheme that pervades all of science -- the principle of energy conservation. Some of the objectives of the project were to (1) determine whether a sequence of learning activities could be developed which would enable elementary school children to obtain…

This phase 1 of the project was conducted to develop and evaluate a new inservice education model. An elementary science curriculum, "Science--A Process Approach" (AAAS Science), provided content for the training program which makes use of video tapes, self-study programed text materials, and classes in which teachers use the AAAS…

Fifteen elementary schools (310 fourth-grade pupils) used in this study were classified as serving high, middle, or low social-economic groups on the basis of information from the city offices and the administration of the metropolitan school district participating in the study. The children in all of the schools used the same text and had the…

This curricular guide, designed for grades one through six, was prepared by a writing committee from the Rock Hill, South Carolina, public schools. Five major themes (living things, the earth, matter and energy, the universe, the human body) provide continuity and direction for the elementary school science program. The guide contains a list of…

Section I of this report gives a brief background of the Three Phase Primary Science Project and the evaluation procedures used. Section II reports the results, organized in an overall analysis, and in analyses by standards (grade levels), phases, school situations, school agency, teachers' experience, and districts. A lesson-by-lesson analysis is…