Suggests the use of daily newspaper weather records as data source for weather studies. (CP)

Describes questioning techniques for elementary school science instruction. Emphasis is placed on questions designed to assist students in value clarification. Stress is placed on personal thoughts, feelings, alternatives, consequences and self-direction. (JM)

Suggests that preschool science programs should be creative, manipulative, investigative, and should grow out of a permissive interaction with the environment that surrounds the child. (BR)

Describes an elementary science institute intended to provide children with scientific training in such a way that science becomes a worthwhile and significant pursuit. The institute is financed by local donations, is staffed mostly by parents, and serves approximately 70 children four days a week after school and on Saturday. (BR)

Presents a theoretical view of science which stresses ideas about the acquisition of complex knowledge that seem potentially useful for adaptation to teaching and learning science. Teaching strategies related to this theory of science development are presented. Bibliography. (LC)

Tested were six levels of a twelve-level hierarchical model for the attainment of concepts leading to the conservation of displacement volume. Presentation was by individual interview using either objects or drawings to present tasks. Results show five of six tested followed anticipated order and that method of presentation showed no significant…