The purpose of the study was to determine the influence of wait-time following a teacher's questions on the cognitive complexity of students' responses. The same sequence of three lessons--Exploration, Invention, and Discovery--was presented to 75 fifth-grade students randomly assigned to 18 groups. The Discovery phase of the instructional…

Project PRIMES (Progress Research in Meeting Elementary Standards) is a Title III ESEA funded project charged with assisting Columbus (Ohio) public and parochial elementary schools in an on-sight evaluation of science programs. The population included nine schools in Columbus. Input was received from 9 principals, over 90 teachers and 140 parents.…

This is one of several papers issued in cooperation with the National Association for Research in Science Teaching to analyze and synthesize research related to the teaching and learning of science completed over a two-year period. The majority of studies reviewed are unpublished doctoral dissertations. The research reviewed is grouped according…

Twenty-four teachers, from a school system not using the new elementary science programs, taught representative new units to 544 students, with variations in their inservice training and the amount of classroom science equipment provided. Classrooms at three grade levels (1, 3, and 6) were used twice under opposing conditions. For each unit, the…

This collection of activity guides was produced for The Handicapped Children's Nature Study Center in Davenport, Iowa, however the guides are designed to be used in any outdoor area by elementary teachers of either handicapped or "normal" children. The emphasis is on making the students more sensitive to their environment by the use of…

Included are a student reader, "The Story of Birds," a leaders' guide, a large colored Audubon bird chart, and a separate guide for the chart. The student reader is divided into eleven sections which relate to the various physical and behavioral features of birds such as feathers, feeding habits as related to the shape of bills and feet, nests,…

This programed text, designed for upper elementary and middle school students, is intended to give students a basic knowledge of invertebrates. Students are expected to be able to identify, name, describe, classify to phylum, and draw animals studied in the text when the unit is completed. A pretest, a series of quizzes and are provided. The…

Studied were third and fourth grade children, from schools designated as exclusively serving low, middle, or high social-economic areas in St. Paul, Minnesota, to determine differences in understanding of science concepts and methods. Test items were administered orally and included fifteen questions selected from the school system basic science…

This is a report of the science program under development by the Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) project. IPI is developing several elementary curricula (e.g. reading, mathematics) as well as science, and all are characterized by six IPI individualization goals: (a) every student makes regular progress towards mastery of instructional…

This booklist is intended for elementary school science students with high interest and low vocabulary skills. The Spache Readability Scale, Dale-Chall formula, sentence structure, paragraph flow, illustration, and diagram analysis or publishers stated grade level were used to determine grade level designations. The included interest level varies…

Persons from the field of science education and persons who had extensive experience working with visually handicapped children were brought together to establish some baselines and beginning ideas of approaches to the evaluation of a laboratory - centered science program (Science Curriculum Improvement Study) as it is being used with visually…

Examined were the cognitive preferences of sixth grade students in relationship both to student involvement in a program utilizing Elementary Science Study Materials and to the teaching strategies employed by the teachers. Two-hundred twenty-six students of eleven teachers, who had taken part in summer workshops to gain experience in using ESS…

The main purpose of this self-pacing instructional module is to help preservice or inservice teachers acquire skills in designing instructional activities in elementary school science and mathematics. The format follows, generally, that of "Science - A Process Approach". Thus, there are activities which are designed to help the participant gain…

These three booklets are outlines of teaching procedures, using living material, designed for elementary school children. While emphasizing science, many opportunities are provided for exercises in mathematics, art, and writing, thus integrating the curriculum. All booklets contain exercises on data collection and organization; two have exercises…

Twenty-four activities suitable for outdoor use by elementary school children are outlined. Activities designed to make children aware of their environment include soil painting, burr collecting, insect and pond water collecting, studies of insect galls and field mice, succession studies, and a model of natural selection using dyed toothpicks. A…