Described is a one-year pilot program undertaken to retrain elementary school teachers for remodeling their programs in science education. One purpose of the program was to aid teachers to understand the nature of inquiry learning through activities that combined scientific and quantitative data essential for comprehensive understanding of…

This report, which is the outcome of a joint project of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification, considers ways in which science teaching in elementary schools could be improved. It is addressed to scientists, professors of education, college…

This is The Report of the 1967 Cambridge Conference on the Correlation of Science and Mathematics in the Schools. It is addressed to professionals in education, and is designed to stimulate dialogue among them concerning the mathematics-science curriculum. The report is organized in five chapters, each dealing respectively with (1) educational…

These three documents outline teaching activities intended to involve children with their environment. Suggested preliminary studies to motivate and familiarize elementary school students with some characteristics of organisms and their physical environment are followed by descriptions of class activities that may be undertaken in the field.…

These six booklets in the "Give Earth a Chance Series" are titled, "Dirty Air,""Trash is Taking Over,""Sounds and Silence,""Pesticides are Perilous,""Tragedy in the Laundromat," and "Troublesome Tail Pipes." The booklets are suitable for elementary use, and are intended to…

Science: Grade 5 provides the teacher with specific materials and suggestions for organizing effective learning experiences in the science area. It is based on the concept that learning occurs when the learner attempts to solve a problem which he finds meaningful. Both science knowledge and science processes are stressed. Significant findings from…

This Guide provides teacher resource information for working with the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) unit Position and Motion. This unit continues the teaching program on space-time relations with the introduction of the idea of the reference frame. Introductory material includes discussions of reference frames, measurement in…

Contained are a collection of science activities based upon forty-six scientific concepts related to space science. These activities are designed for junior high school science, but a much wider grade level range of use is possible. The booklet is primarily intended for teacher use. Each series of concept-oriented activities is independent of the…

Listed are journal articles and dissertations related to science and mathematics education for young children (mostly pre-school through primary grades). Each entry includes a short annotation indicating the contents and the type of article. The first section on science is divided into sub-sections dealing with: general topics (including behavior…

Forty-seven elementary school teachers and principals participated in a six-week summer workshop to prepare them for teaching American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)-Science A Process Approach. The workshop participants had a pre-test mean score of 66.7 on Form A of the AAAS Science Process Measure for Teachers. The post-test…

The objective of this multimedia kit is to provide third and fourth grade children with materials with which they can interact, and which will help them to explore a selected part of their environment. By examining the fruits and seeds in the box, by experimenting with them, and by watching them grow, children will acquire skill in manipulating…

This is a report on a project to develop teacher-leaders to assist in the installation of Science - A Process Approach in schools of diverse characteristics in New York and Pennsylvania. The function of such a teacher-leader would be to use his competence and training to assist his peers in the institutionalizing of Science - A Process Approach.…

The emphasis of this instructional module is inductive reasoning, using the concept of graphing as a convenient means to record observations for subsequent mental operations. Performance objectives are: (1) construct a prediction from a point graph by applying the rules of extrapolation and interpolation; (2) demonstrate a test of prediction; (3)…

This instructional module for teacher education has two main goals: (a) participants will group objects or events and (b) participant will share his grouping with others, either verbally or with graphs. The graphing conventions used in the module are based on the materials developed by the Commission on Science Education of the American…

The main purpose of the study was to describe teacher and pupil behavior during science lessons. Subjects of the investigation reported in this document were 144 first, second, and fifth grade pupils and the twelve teachers who taught these pupils. Each classroom was observed during five lessons of Science - A Process Approach. The instrument used…