This article describes how to assemble inquiry-oriented, materials-centered, multimedia unit packages to be prepared by elementary education students for use in student teaching. (PD)

Uses the action of a lever as an example to illustrate inductive and deductive procedures in teaching elementary school science. (JR)

This issue of the newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) presents articles relating to the back to basics movement, science in the elementary school, elementary science programs, and marine science for handicapped students. In all articles, the back to basics issue as it relates to science instruction is…

This study investigates the effects of adapting elementary science instruction to students' entering achievement levels on three dependent variables: (1) performance on tests of science content knowledge; (2) mastery of lesson objectives; and (3) attitude toward science. Subjects were 235 sixth graders from four elementary schools in a small,…

This guide, prepared by the Oklahoma State Department of Education, is designed to assist administrators, their staffs, and science teachers for grades K through 12 to assess and improve their science programs. Topics discussed include: (1) the relationship of science to the total school program, (2) the unity of science, (3) the nature of…

This teacher's guide was prepared for use with "Down Where the Water Is: A Coastal Awareness Activity Book," as part of the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council's public education program. Contained are instructions on the use of the Activity Book, page-by-page, with glossaries, activity ideas, resources, places to visit,…

Describes a two-day conference with an assembly of eighty four- and five-year-old children as delegates. Through this conference, students learned what energy is, how it works and devised methods of energy conservation. (EB)

Comments on the fact that national elementary school curriculum projects contain few earth science topics, in spite of the high interest which children display toward earth science activities. (MLH)

Describes the use of a puzzle to reinforce knowledge of how things grow and outlines the use of the house cricket as an alternative to the locust or cockroach in school biology. (Author/GS)