The multimedia kit on water was designed for use by nursery school and first grade children. Water is an intriguing part of a child's world; for this reason, water was chosen as the medium for this set of instructional materials. The child's natural way of exploring his environment is through play; he is really learning ways to discover and…

Reported is a study of differences in the observed verbal behaviors of various groupings of teachers (four pre-service and four in-service) and pupils (fifth- and sixth-grade in science and social studies) in a series of creative and non-creative lessons. The factors studied were: (1) creativity of lessons; (2) subject matter (social studies…

Reported is a study to develop and test an instrument designed to measure the scientific curiosity and science interests of elementary school students. The inventory was administered to 545 students, grades six through nine, in Columbus, Ohio and 1,050 students, grades six and eight, in Portland, Oregon. Total test-retest reliability of the major…

This study sought to determine the effects of a recruitment pattern and a group-training condition on the onset and quality of implementation and survival over time of a first-grade science unit. Recruitment was by singles or pairs and training was for elementary science only or elementary science plus collaboration skills, making four treatment…

This study was primarily concerned with comparing the performance of two groups of students on the Scientific Curiosity Inventory, the Scale of Attitudes Towards Science and Scientists, and the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, Figural and Verbal. The group designated as the experimental group had experienced only the Science Curriculum…

The effect of motivational films on the attitudes of elementary school students (grades four, five, and six) was investigated by use of an attitude scale concerning science, scientists, and scientific careers. Some students were shown 10 films included in the Horizons of Science Film Program during a 10-week period. Follow-up activities used with…

Reported is an investigation of the relationship of reading ability and subject comprehension of 455 students in elementary grades. One set of hypotheses was related to student ability (reading and comprehension) and assigned textbooks and another related to student ability and selected materials in social studies and science at readability levels…

Reported is the development of an attitude instrument based upon a grid of key statements about science and scientists and the use of the instrument to determine the attitudes of 981 sixth- and ninth-grade students (male and female) from rural, urban and suburban communities. The instrument consisted of statements about science and scientists…

Two experiences designed to develop perceptual frameworks for bringing education course content into personal relevance were tested. The study examined the effects of two experimental and one control experiences on change in teacher behavior and concern level. Forty-nine beginning preservice teachers were randomly assigned to one of three…

Reported is a study into the teaching behaviors of elementary science teachers based on the philosophy of Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS). One hundred eighty-four teachers were selected from a large geographical area, having widely differing backgrounds and varying education and/or experience with SCIS programs. The Predicted Role…

This document contains materials given to teachers participating in an inservice program aimed at helping them teach topics in modern mathematics and science. The mathematics portion of the project was a series of 11 television programs introducing the topics of equations, number lines, operations, functions, centimeter blocks, lattices, brackets,…

This document contains the materials used in an inservice program aimed at helping teachers with topics in mathematics and science. For each of the 11 mathematics programs there is a paper describing the recommended inservice format to be used, an outline of the film being presented, and a series of activity sheets for teachers which include…

This study investigated the effects of the addition of a supplemental science program to existing curricula in selected elementary schools. A supplemental science program, the Elementary Science Study (ESS), was introduced to the treatment group (four of eight classes randomly selected, with a total population of 189 sixth-grade students) and a…

Reported is a study to determine the proper sequencing of the Conceptually Oriented Program in Elementary Science (COPES) on the basis of structure-of-intellect (SI) abilities, provide science teachers with some insight into the kinds of instructional strategies that could be used and help the teacher decide on the timing of particular…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of bilingual instruction for students whose second language is English. A random sample of 51 fifth and sixth grade Chinese immigrant children was obtained from one elementary school, and the children were randomly assigned to monolingual (English) and bilingual (English and Cantonese)…