This handbook was prepared to help science teachers, administrators, and other school staff members understand and avoid situations in which accidents might occur in the science laboratory, on field trips, or during outdoor education experiences. Suggestions contained in this publication are generally agreed upon and recommended for consideration…

This video contains the detailed description of the 1975 attempt to re-create the adventures of the first Polynesian explorers in the Pacific, a project in which Nainoa Thompson participated. Mr. Thompson, an educator who presents programs in "wavefinding," begins his address with an overview of Polynesian and Pacific geography, origins,…

Reform in science and technology education started in Israel in 1992 with the release of the "Tomorrow '98 Report." The report featured 43 recommendations for new programs, special projects, changes, and improvements that are both educational and structural in the areas of curriculum development and implementation, pedagogy of science,…

This paper is concerned with the role of spreadsheets as a tool for the development of mathematical models in science, one aspect of a collaborative project which worked with two groups of pre-university students from Mexico and the United Kingdom. The purpose of the modeling activities designed was to engage students in creating an…

Discusses the theory and experimental procedures for using Young's eriometer to determine the diameters of blood corpuscles, lycopodium powder, and wool fibers. (CC)

Presents eight readers' letters and one editor's reply in which discussions are related to effects of zero-population growth on scientific creativity, employment crisis of industrial physicists, efficiency of ionic pumps, and the naming system of laws and effects in physics. (CC)

Presents sixteen questions designed to measure the level of scientific and historical knowledge that professors, researchers, and students possess in the area of physics and the arms race. (CC)

Discusses the use of a board game, Reversi, in a class of nonphysics majors to explain the investigative techniques of physics by analogy. (CC)

Suggests that there are possible dangers in using the history of science in science education. Examines arguments that young and impressionable students at the start of a scientific career should be shielded from the writings of contemporary science historians. (JR)

Presents a brief historical account of Michelson's invention of his interferometer with some subsequent ingenious applications of its capabilities for precise measurement discussed in details, including the experiment on detrmination of the diameters for heavenly bodies. (CC)

Presents a Resource Letter on air pollution, noise pollution, transportation, and solid waste for the purpose of acquainting college physicists with some of the literature and teaching aids. Included are five bibliographies of which four are annotated. (CC)

Presents theoretical fundamentals of the experiment on the multiple reflection of helium-neon laser beams from a black-surfaced mirror. Further applications to student projects are indicated. (CC)

Discusses teaching of two project experiments to nonscience students who were asked to measure the acceleration of a system any way they could and investigate any phenomena that they thought might follow a Poisson distribution. Indicates that physics learning performed outside the physics building is the experiment highlight. (CC)

Discusses the experience of a British exchange physics teacher with the physics instruction in the United States of America, including students' learning and extracurricular activities. Indicates that the state of physics in the United States is found to be less healthy than in Britain. (CC)