This publication was prepared to accompany the revised "Soil and Water Section" of "Guides for Teacher Conservation in the Schools of Louisiana." Its purpose is to provide teachers with information about possible sources of teaching materials that can be obtained free or with only a small expenditure of funds. Each item listed…

Studied were attitudes of 54 fourth and fifth-grade teachers from 21 New York and Pennsylvania pilot schools prior to an initial summer workshop on Science-A Process Approach (AAAS) prior to installation of the AAAS during the 1969-70 school year. A questionnaire was mailed to each teacher. Data and conclusions were reported with regard to…

The sixth paper in the science series of research reviews produced for the Science and Mathematics Education Information Analysis Center concerns research in science education at the elementary school level published in 1968-69. The following topics are reviewed: Effects of instruction in new elementary science programs (Science - A Process…

This study is an attempt to discover the relation of classification and seriation, two areas of intellectual development investigated by Piaget. A number of test items, modified from Piaget's description, were administered individually to 29 boys and 21 girls in third-grade classes. A set of 11 lessons involving tape recordings, technique films,…

This study was to determine the utility of specific phonic generalizations to vocabularies in science textbooks, words special to science, and to compare the Clymer and Bailey studies with the science study. A list of words compiled from three science series, grades on to six, was analyzed via the generalizations and procedures developed by…

This paper summarizes what physicists can bring to school science and what work in school science curriculum development has given, through the work of college and university physicists, to physics education. The physicist brings the similarity of the style of understanding as a child, which is inquisitive experimentation. He also has a…

The Conceptually Oriented Program in Elementary Science (COPES) Test of Science Concepts was administered to all children in a grade four and a grade six class after completion of a unit from the COPES materials. A semi-standardized interview schedule was used to interview selected pupils. Tapes of these interviews were rated independently by…

The State Department of Education for South Carolina has prepared this publication to help administrators and curriculum planners in selecting and evaluating science instructional materials for use in their schools. The report is divided into three major parts for elementary science (K-5), middle school science (6-8), and high school science…

Reported is a study of the importance of the direct manipulative experience in the attainment of science process skills for kindergarten and grade three pupils. Typical self-contained classes were selected to learn exercises from Science - A Process Approach. Some pupils were allowed to manipulate science materials in learning, while others were…

Student behaviors associated with two sets of learning conditions in a fifth grade science program were investigated. The effects of student-structured learning of science (SSLS) and teacher-structured learning in science (TSLS) on classroom behaviors of the students were analyzed. Observational data of student behavior were collected daily by a…

This handbook, compiled by the Oklahoma State Science Committee, presents the basic philosophy of a school science program. Curriculum models in the publication are taken from several elementary science course improvement projects. Program organization and evaluation, relationships of science to the total school program, preparation of elementary…

The abstracts of papers presented at the 1971 NSTA Southeast Regional Conference, "Science Education - Southern Style," are grouped into these general subject areas: school science programs, K-12 (seven abstracts); preservice and inservice teacher education in science (14 abstracts); and science education and environmental education (seven…

Suggestions for providing science experiences for children in kindergarten and grades one and two are given in this first part of the Victorian Education Department (Australia) guide to the elementary school science curriculum. (See SE 012 720 and SE 012 721 for additional guides to this curriculum.) The suggestions are illustrated by brief case…

Suggestions for methods of teaching the science material included in grades three and four of the elementary school curriculum of the Education Department of Victoria are illustrated by descriptions of successful teaching episodes, particularly when science activities have served as an introduction to written expression, applied number, and social…

Science - A Process Approach, a science program for grades kindergarten through sixth, mainly focuses on scientific processes: observing, classifying, using numbers, measuring, space/time relationships, communicating, predicting, inferring, defining operationally, formulating hypotheses, interpreting data, controlling variables, and experimenting.…