Presented is the development of elementary school science in Australia, beginning in 1900 and including changes produced by the impact of American and British science curriculum reforms as these manifested themselves in the 1960-1970 period. (PEB)

Discusses the value of asking operational questions in teaching science, and describes a simple, open-ended activity designed to help students ask more productive questions. (JR)

THIS TEACHING GUIDE, INVOLVING ACTIVITIES FOR DEVELOPING AN UNDERSTANDING OF BASIC ELECTRICITY, EMPHASIZES STUDENT INVESTIGATIONS RATHER THAN FACTS, AND IS BASED ON THE PREMISE THAT THE MAJOR GOAL IN SCIENCE TEACHING IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INVESTIGATIVE ATTITUDE IN THE STUDENT. ACTIVITIES SUGGESTED INVOLVE SIMPLE DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS…

THE RESEARCH WAS DESIGNED TO COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT CURRICULAR CONTENT, TO MEASURE COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS, AND TO DETECT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CERTAIN SCIENCE PROGRAM FACTORS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT. THE SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 3,060 CHILDREN AND THEIR TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS. THROUGH A QUESTIONNAIRE, INFORMATION WAS…

Developed was a procedure to determine the reading difficulty of fourth grade programed science materials. The materials used consisted of three units of programed science materials; the pupil sample consisted of 599 elementary school children in grades 4, 5, and 6. A regression analysis procedure was used to establish a readability equation, and…

Studied was the effect of advance organizers, as defined by Ausubel, on the learning of concepts in science. Sixth grade classes studied two sequences of major concept-centered learning tasks developed by the investigator. The first had 12 lessons about energy forms and transformations; the second had five about photosynthesis and respiration as…

This source book consists of four parts. Part One, an introduction and overview, deals with the need for establishing new science programs and shows the relationship of the source book to the K-12 science program of the Science Manpower Project. Part Two consists of three chapters written for use in grades K-3: "Simple…