Reports a study undertaken to determine the effect of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) on logical thinking. Evidence of logical thinking was measured as the ability to explain compensating variables that occurred in a cart experiment presented on silent 16 mm film. (GS)

Suggests several activities with multidisciplinary opportunities that children can perform with the money that they collected for UNICEF. (LS)

Looks at how "changes" in one public elementary school were manifested in family and community life. (Available from EA 506 677) (Author/MLF)

Reviews Piaget's stages of development and describes types of educational activities which are appropriate for specific levels of cognitive development. (CP)

Two groups of fourth graders performed a science activity. The treatment group first watched a filmed explanation of the activity by selected students from the class; the control group did not watch the film. The treatment group generated significantly more positive behaviors and less negative behaviors in the activity. (MLH)

Provides a description of Project Tactics for Applying Programs in Education (TAPE), a National Science Foundation funded program currently in use in South Dakota. Components of the program which include the use of television, telephone, and newspaper media are explained. (CP)

Reports on survey given to 505 elementary students concerning concepts and causes of pollution. Data are reported for each of the eight elementary grades and responses are categorized as being concrete simple, concrete complex, abstract simple or abstract complex. (CP)

Students using the Science Curriculum Improvement Study curriculum were informally observed to be incapable of defining a system although they could perform related tasks. A study was performed to determine students' understanding of various aspects of systems. (SD)

A sample of 43 second grade pupils was divided into groups which performed classificatory tasks with value labels, attribute labels, or a combination of these. Results showed that the value labeling improved the students' classificatory skills and increased the students' ability to generalize classificatory skill on far transfer tests. (MLH)

Studied the intellectual differences between third and fourth grade Filipino children who had studied Science--A Process Approach (SAPA) and others who had studied a traditional curriculum. The SAPA children performed significantly better than the control group on a test of observing, comparing, and classifying simple geometric objects. (MLH)

Describes a classroom activity which involved sixth grade students in a learning situation including making ice cream, safety procedures in a science laboratory, calibrating a thermometer, using metric units of volume and mass. (EB)

Presents an introductory activity in the use of arbitrary measuring units, using simple materials found in school or at home. Materials are listed and activities provided. (EB)

The article explores some of the possible reasons for what the author describes as an apparent failure of the use of innovative elementary school science programs developed over the past dozen years and suggests some possible solutions. Six suggestions are given to reduce or overcome barriers to change. (EB)

Describes a study to determine if the physical presence of the instructor affects the learning processes of the student. The results indicate that live teaching may be educationally more valuable than taped instruction. (BR)