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Crone, Burnell – 1975
Alaska is one of the most ideal settings for teaching science. In most of the rural areas, science materials are in abundance starting almost at the school's door steps to a distance as far as a person would like to go. Therefore, it is quite possible to develop science projects for all grades. Some of the projects can be done in the simplest ways…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Outdoor Education, Rural Schools, Science Curriculum
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Bisard, Walter – Science and Children, 1988
Discusses how teachers turn an idea into a meaningful lesson. Suggests class brainstorming, using community resources, library searches, and further classroom activities. (YP)
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Activities
Mayer, Victor J., Ed.; Fortner, Rosanne W., Ed. – 1995
Earth Systems Education (ESE) is an effort to establish within U.S. schools more effective programs designed to increase public understanding of the Earth System that surrounds and sustains us all. ESE focuses on establishing an understanding of the processes that operate within our environment and uses the science thinking and problem-solving…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Herrera, Sharon; Thier, Herbert D. – 1974
This teacher's guide has been constructed to enable the teacher of science in elementary schools to turn the classroom into a science laboratory. The teacher becomes an observer and a guide when using this curriculum. The Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) Conceptual Framework and the Program Overview in this guide show how a unit of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Australian Science Education Project, Toorak, Victoria. – 1972
Contained in this package are two pieces of literature related to the Australian Science Education Project: A Guide to ASEP/Introduction to ASEP (leader edition) and A Guide to ASEP/ASEP Units and Their Use. The Guide to ASEP is a set of teacher education materials designed for use by teachers and others who wish to learn about the Australian…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Instruction
Australian Science Education Project, Toorak, Victoria. – 1973
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…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Junior High School Students, Petroleum Industry, Science Course Improvement Projects
Portland Project Committee, OR. – 1970
This teaching guide contains part one of the four parts of the first year of the Portland Project, a three-year secondary integrated science curriculum sequence. This part involves the student in a series of activities intended to increase his understanding of his perceptual abilities and their limitations. Organization and classification as parts…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Perception, Physical Sciences, Science Activities
Portland Project Committee, OR. – 1970
This teacher's guide contains part two of the four-part first year Portland Project, a three-year secondary integrated science curriculum sequence. This part involves the student with unifying principles essential for deeper understanding of the concept of energy. Confidence in the atomic nature of matter is built by relating heat in terms of…
Descriptors: Energy, Integrated Curriculum, Physical Sciences, Science Activities
Portland Project Committee, OR. – 1973
This teacher's guide includes parts three and four of the four-part third year Portland Project, a three-year integrated secondary science curriculum sequence. The underlying intention of the third year is to study energy and its importance to life. Energy-related concepts considered in year one and two, and the concepts related to atomic…
Descriptors: Energy, Integrated Curriculum, Physical Sciences, Science Activities
Portland Project Committee, OR. – 1970
This teacher's guide contains parts three and four of the four-part first year Portland Project, a three-year secondary integrated science curriculum sequence. Part three of the guide deals with topics such as the cell, reproduction, embryology, genetics, genetic diseases, genetics and change, populations, effects of density on populations,…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Integrated Curriculum, Reproduction (Biology)
Portland Project Committee, OR. – 1973
This teacher's guide includes parts one and two of the four-part third year Portland Project, a three-year integrated secondary science curriculum sequence. The Harvard Project Physics textbook is used for reading assignments for part one. Assignments relate to waves, light, electricity, magnetic fields, Faraday and the electrical age,…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Integrated Curriculum, Physical Sciences, Science Activities
Portland Project Committee, OR. – 1973
This teacher's guide is for the second year of the Portland Project, a three-year integrated secondary science curriculum sequence. The first of two parts in this volume, "Motion and Energy," begins with the study of motion, going from the quantitative description to a consideration of what causes motion and a discussion of Newton's…
Descriptors: Energy, Integrated Curriculum, Kinetic Molecular Theory, Motion
Robinson, James T.; Tolman, Richard R. – 1981
The Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) Human Sciences Project developed, produced, and field tested 13 interdisciplinary, non-traditional, non-text science curriculum modules for early adolescents, ages 11 to 14. The Human Sciences Data File- HSPALL (ED 211 383) contains evaluation data from the 1973-1976 field testing of the Human…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research, Databases, Elementary School Science
Robinson, James T.; Tolman, Richard R. – 1981
The Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) Human Sciences Project developed, produced, and field tested 13 interdisciplinary, non-traditional, non-text science curriculum modules for early adolescents, ages 11 to 14. A codebook (ED 211 382) contains the frequencies for the value of 23 variables for each of the 3,173 student-activity…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research, Databases, Elementary School Science
Robinson, James T.; Tolman, Richard R. – 1981
The Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) Human Sciences Project developed, produced, and field tested 13 interdisciplinary, non-traditional, non-text science curriculum modules for early adolescents, ages 11 to 14. The Codebook for Human Sciences Activity Characteristics on Reviewer Evaluation File--HSACRE (ED 211 384) contains 8 variables…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research, Databases, Elementary School Science