This curriculum guide is intended for use in an ungraded science program encompassing grades 4, 5, and 6 in elementary schools in southwestern North Dakota. The guide and a companion volume, developed for grades 1, 2, and 3, represent an attempt to develop a model science program for grades 1-6. The total program is an indepth study of 64 basic…

Contained are instructional materials developed by the Science Project Related to Upgrading Conservation Education. The lesson plans given are intended to demonstrate the "indoor-outdoor-indoor" approach to teaching science conservation, with concentration on methods of inquiry and emphasis on processes of science. Four subject areas are…

The project represents the efforts of Highline Public School s during 1967-68 to develop an integrated curriculum in mathematics and science for the primary grades. This project prepared teachers to develop scientific attitudes and student understanding of mathematical and scientific concepts. The curriculum was based upon an inquiry system…

This book was prompted by the success of a display mounted by the National Oceanographic Data Center at the 17th International Science Fair in 1966, which enabled visiting teachers and students to ask and receive answers to questions via teletype. The book contains one hundred questions typical of those asked, together with answers ranging in…

This report of the enrichment phase of California Project Talent is designed to provide guidelines for teachers in other schools. Part 1 contains five chapters on the planning phases of the enrichment program which was operated at the demonstration center of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 1963-1966. Included are rationale for…

More than 40 studies and reports were reviewed in this paper. Reviewed under Inservice Programs and Activities are: Local Programs, (e.g. Flint Hills Elementary Science Project), Institute Programs (e.g. NSF Summer Institutes) and other Inservice activities (e.g. Eastern Regional Institute for Education). The writer reviewed evaluative reports and…

Two major objectives of the Metropolitan Environmental Education Resources Study were: (1) to produce a directory of sites around Columbus, Ohio, having fieldtrip potential; and (2) to test the validity of the concept that field trips are a useful method in aiding student educational growth. The first section of this document relates the history…

This guide is designed to provide teachers (grade 2) with a ready resource for planning, organizing, and teaching science to the elementary child. Many suggested activities will provide an enriched science program. Each unit lists estimated time, content, concepts or "understandings," problems to deal with, activities, suggestions for…

Examined are two controversial areas in science education related to elementary education majors: (1) use of science content courses, and (2) use of science methods courses. The author attempts to determine whether education majors who were taking a professional course in the teaching of science differ from non-education majors taking a comparable…

Reported is a study of the relationship between the science knowledge and attitudes prospective elementary school teachers bring to the college science education program and their criticisms of the program. A questionnaire was used to categorize responses into four main areas of criticism: basic science courses, laboratory experiences, methods…

This paper reviews and analyzes research in science education which focused on science concepts and science concept learning. Studies reviewed are grouped into eight categories: (1) cognitive development, (2) factors influencing concept formation, (3) level of concept attainment, (4) methodological effects, (5) methodological comparisons, (6)…

Reported is a study of the attitudes of elementary school students toward science as a school subject. This study was undertaken in order to determine the effects of an in-service teacher training program in the use of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) program. Children in grades two through six (N-1941) from four suburban (85…

Reported is a study undertaken to examine an attitude paradigm that might be valid to use in initiating research on the modification of the attitudes of preservice elementary teachers toward science and the teaching of science. The subjects were 286 third year preservice elementary teachers enrolled in the fall term of 1972, at four teacher…

This study examined the effectiveness of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) materials for visually handicapped children. Fourteen students, ranging in age from 9 to 19 and working in small groups with student teachers, received science instruction using the adapted version of the SCIS program. Control subjects were matched closely on…

This booklet contains a compilation of student terminal goals, program goals, and behavioral objectives for science education developed for the public schools of Mesa, Arizona. The program goals and behavioral objectives span the science curriculum from grade one through senior high school level for each of the four terminal goals which are (1)…