Common science laboratory skills, such as bending glass tubing, are taught to prospective teachers. (CP)

Describes use of Science Curriculum Improvement Study materials for teaching environmental education in elementary schools. The units provide a sequential learning experience ranging from the Study of Organisms, Life Cycles, Populations, Environments, Communities to Ecosystems. Projects underway in the United States and Sweden for materials…

Describes procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to determine the resemblance sorting ability of a non-random sample of 120 first grade students. Results indicate that (a) shape is visually an easier attribute to handle than pattern, and pattern is easier than size, (b) a single attribute is easier than two or three, and (c)…

Describes procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to investigate the effects of (1) the height of an object, (2) state of decay of an object, (3) the reversibility of an event, and (4) the affective aspects of an event on the development of the conservation of time concept in elementary school children. Results indicated that…

Presents the procedures, results and conclusions of a study of science instructional activities in classrooms of teachers who either had or had not participated in an inservice workshop introducing new science materials. A cross sectional sampling approach was used to obtain at the same point in time observations of science classrooms of 91…

The use of student interest in the current space program was used in a vehicle for the integration of science and mathematics. (CP)

A simulation exercise involving being transported to another planet forces students to use different instruments, devices, and units for measuring. (CP)