This handbook contains several suggestions for introducing and maintaining innovative science activities. It supplements the published research findings of the Harvard Study Committee ("Essentially Elementary Science") as well as the summary of those findings ("Something of Value") by offering teachers, administrators, school committee directors,…

The ReTAL technique is described by using role sheets for the teacher and the student members of the research team; the "Researcher" defines the problem and searches the literature, the "Technician" plans and executes the experiment, and the "Recorder-Discussion Leader" coordinates records, interprets, evaluates, and…

This publication contains the text of papers given at a conference of science teachers and professional scientists organized by the Canadian Teacher's Federation. Papers are entitled "Science Education and the Nation's Needs,""Science in the Elementary School,""Science for All, or the Purposes of New…

This guide is for teachers (K-12) interested in developing and using outdoor education areas. Student participation is presented as the key to a successful program. A discussion of what can be done by outdoor education programs is presented. The guide suggests sites to be chosen in terms of accessability, size, attractiveness, safety, drinking…

Included are an illustrated student reader, "The Story of Plants and Flowers," an adult leaders' guide, and a large wall chart picturing 37 wildflowers and describing 23 major plant families. The student reader presents these main topics: The Plant Kingdom, The Wonderful World of Plants, Plants Without Flowers, Flowering Plants, Plants Make Food…

Prepared for teachers of upper elementary and junior high students, this curriculum guide aids in the study of water and its relationship to the environment, serving as a prelude to considering problems of water pollution. The twelve lesson plans are designed as a series of indoor-outdoor-indoor experiences which are utilized to develop one or…

Described are indoor and outdoor lessons for intermediate and junior high students. These lessons are intended to help students understand how the physical and cultural needs of man are directly related to the environment. Learning through involvement in direct personal experience is emphasized with students encouraged to role play as early…

Reported are the results of a workshop designed to instruct college teachers and science consultants in "Science - A Process Approach" and "Science Curriculum""Improvement Study" curricula. One of the objectives of the workshop was to influence participants to promote these curricula and initiate change. This report…

Contained is a review of the research done on the use of verbal rewards in the classroom. Some verbal rewards are tasks rewards, other rewards are more personal; and still other verbal rewards are impersonal. Verbal rewards, therefore, have both intellectual and emotional implications. Research literature indicates that "verbal reward"…

Contained in this unit are activities designed to develop science process skills for Grades K through 6. A chart shows how the activities for each grade relate to the operations of classifying, inferring, observing, predicting, interpreting data, estimating, measuring, using numbers, experimenting, and controlling variables. Each activity is…

This Teacher's Guide is designed for use with the Science Curriculum Improvement Study's (SCIS) unit Population. Populations is the third of a six-unit sequence of SCIS's Life Science Program for grades K-6. The Populations guide consists of activity outlines along with suggestions for guiding children's observation and manipulations of living…

A study sought to cause a change in the question-phrasing practices of 40 students enrolled in elementary science methods classes. A method of instruction involving the analysis of videotaped classroom lessons illustrative of four categories (cognitive-memory, convergent, divergent, and evaluative) of poorly phrased and effectively phrased…

Contained are some of the instructional materials developed by the Science Project Related to Upgrading Conservation Education. Outdoor activities for elementary school children, suitable for use in camps, parks, playgrounds or sanctuaries are described. Programs are designed for one-day (K-4), two-day (grade 5), and three-day (grade 6) camps, and…

Presented are 75 suggestions for investigating in grades K-6 such common urban resources as trees, seeds, polluted air, rocks, and insects. The manual is designed for use with the Urban Discovery Box which contains samples collected from eight urban resources along with some objects helpful to investigate these. A section in the manual for each of…

This unit emphasizes concept-learning through the discovery approach and child-centered activities. "Discovering Matter" is treated in the kindergarten, "Matter Around Us" in grade 1, "Changes in Matter" in grade 4 and "Atoms and Molecules" in grade 6. The unit for each grade contains (1) understandings to…