This paper describes the introduction and use of the World Wide Web (WWW) in an elementary science methods course at Florida International University (FIU). The goals of creating a web site include engaging conversations among educators, providing access to local resources for students, and examining student use of web sites and the Internet. The…

This article takes the form of a letter from a distressed elementary school teacher who has been assigned the responsibility of a science program. It is intended to sensitize science educators to what they are asking and what they are taking for granted in their expectations of elementary teachers. (JR)

Describes a science activity designed to stimulate creative thinking in children. The project, entitled Egg Loft,'' encourages students to devise methods for lifting an egg above 20 feet and returning it safely to ground. A number of the successful devices created and built by children are described. (JR)

Discusses the response of children to the new elementary science curricula. Claims that while we have been busy devising experiments that enable children to discover concepts, we may have forgotten about children and why they are interested in learning. (JR)

Describes a science-oriented photography program offered during the summer to sixth-grade students. The program aims to increase visual literacy, and students spend considerable time in planning, taking, arranging, and using self-made photographs for the intentional communication of meaning. (JR)

Provides an annotated list of educational journals that are of particular interest to elementary, secondary, and college science teachers. The journals are grouped into the areas of problems and research in science teaching, biology education, chemistry education, physics education, and earth science education. (JR)

Describes how animated drawings can be simply prepared and used effectively as a teaching aid in science. (JR)

Describes several activities which can be used, by the teacher, as class demonstrations or projects to stimulate student interest in weather phenomena. (JR)

Examines a number of factors that should be of importance in science teacher preparation and presents a model for designing a program for future elementary school science teachers. (JR)

Reviews the research studies related to astronomy education at the elementary, secondary, and college levels, and makes recommendations for continued research in this area. (JR)

Discusses a number of concepts (turbulence, dispersion, vertical temperature distribution, atmospheric stability and instability, and inversions) which are prerequisite to understanding how weather affects air quality. Describes classroom demonstrations effective in introducing these concepts to students at the elementary, secondary and college…

Teacher gives a list of individual projects in her outdoor science unit. (GB)

Describes precautions that should be taken and procedures that should be followed to minimize the risk of accidents in the school science laboratory. (JR)

Describes a community program in which volunteers, from nine-year-old girl scouts to eighty-year-old retired citizens, assist in preparing materials for the local school's science classes. (JR)