This Child Development Associate (CDA) training module helps interns develop children's science exploration and discovery skills. This process of discovering is known as sciencing. Teachers can create the climate for discovery by becoming actively involved with the children, by sharing the children's natural curiosity about their environment, and…

Presented is a technical physics module designed to meet objectives in electricity and magnetism for students in an introductory physics course and emphasizing laboratory work. Included are basic text materials, prerequisites, objectives, a posttest, experiments, and a teacher's guide. The module is designed to be used on an individual instruction…

Presented is an evaluation of a leadership training program to prepare junior high school teachers to use the Introductory Physical Science Curriculum. Emphasis of the leadership program is on administrators and their problems, leaders and their problems, and teachers. Recommendations are given. Included in the appendices are sample letters of…

Presented is a bibliography that cites research studies and articles related to Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS), and provides a brief summary of these research studies and articles and some commentary within 5 categories. These 5 categories are: (1) SCIS and teachers, 8 studies or articles are reported within this category which are…

Project City Science, funded by the National Science Foundation, is designed by the New York University as an urban systems approach to the improvement of intermediate science teaching in New York City. This report consists of three major sections. The first section describes the preservice program, which includes courses presented, school…

This teacher's guide is designed to meet several objectives in the area of junior high science. The three versions within this volume are based on the idea that the same science content can be oriented towards the attainment of several different kinds of objectives. Each version is devoted to a different area of emphasis. The blue version…

THE TWELFTH IN A SERIES OF 17 VOLUMES, THIS VOLUME PROVIDES THE SEVENTH GRADE TEACHER WITH A GUIDE TO THE REORGANIZED SCIENCE CURRICULUM OF THE MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE MATERIALS ARE INTENDED TO BE AUGMENTED AND REVISED AS THE NEED ARISES. THE SEVENTH GRADE SUPPLEMENT IS IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME 7A CONTAINS INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL, A BRIEF…

THE SIXTH IN A SERIES OF 17 VOLUMES, THIS VOLUME PROVIDES THE FOURTH GRADE TEACHER WITH A GUIDE TO THE REORGANIZED SCIENCE CURRICULUM OF THE MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE MATERIALS ARE INTENDED TO BE AUGMENTED AND REVISED AS THE NEED ARISES. THIS FOURTH GRADE SUPPLEMENT IS IN TWO PARTS. PART 4A CONTAINS THE INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL, THE CONCEPTS…

"Quest into Matter," produced by Ontario (Canada) Instructional Television, aimed to investigate the "heart of matter" at the college freshman level of chemistry. Specifically, its purpose was to demonstrate the relevance of "shape" in relation to the properties of matter from the molecular level to the galactic. Some…

The purpose of this study was to design a course and to determine its effects on learners' perceptions of certain scientific literacy concepts. A science-related semantic differential instrument was used. Student-instructor collaboration resulted in the selection of objectives and learning strategies in order to establish an environment favorable…

The concept of continuous, interrelated learning experiences for every student is central to the articulated curriculum. Articulation involves the ordering of long-range and immediate curriculum goals into a cooperative process of planned change. Such planning also necessitates definitions of goals and curriculum content and requires the human and…

This sourcebook provides science investigations for junior high students. These investigation are coordinated with the seven integrating conceptual schemes formulated in 1964 under the auspices of National Science Teachers Association. The investigations were developed, classroom tested, and contributed by classroom teachers. (RS)

This is a National Trial Print of a unit on petroleum developed for the Australian Science Education Project. The package contains the teacher's edition of the written material and a script for a film entitled "The Extraordinary Experience of Nicholas Nodwell" emphasizing the uses of petroleum and petroleum products in daily life and…

Prepared for use in the 5th grade, this teacher's handbook consists of 19 science units dealing with environmental education. Topics are ecology, language arts, rocks and fossils, soil, noise pollution, Nashville pioneers and American Indians, conservation, waste and litter, water pollution, compass and mapping, plants and trees, use of the…

Thirty-six textbooks used by the Pittsburgh public schools at grade levels K-5 were reviewed to see how they treat girls vs. boys and men vs. women. Language, reading, science, social studies, and mathematics texts were evaluated. Blatant sexism is found in all areas. Different ideas of behavior and mores are propagated for boys than for girls;…