This collection of 20 articles from "The Science Teacher" and "Science and Children" is provided to assist teachers, students, and parents in preparing for science fairs. Four major questions about science fairs are addressed in the articles. They are: (1) Who should participate in a science fair? (2) How should a fair be organized? (3) What makes…

Introduced is a course to teach integrated product development and to help make the shift from university to real practice. Discusses the course "Teaching Creative Machine Design," practical course guides, two examples of projects, and some consequences of the course. (YP)

Presents an account of the making of a wildlife garden. Reviews the problems and outlines the plans and methods that succeeded in the project. Includes 21 illustrations of vegetation as well as descriptions of pond, marsh, meadow, and woodland areas. (ML)

Describes a method for conducting a sophomore organic chemistry laboratory which included integrating projects with a writing task involving peer group interaction. Also includes background/theory, chemistry tasks, writing tasks, and evaluation. Included in appendices are an analytic worksheet and grading scale. (JN)

Describes the Science in Social Context (SISCON) project. The use of the SISCON in the British colleges, polytechnics and secondary schools and a list of the units, of the course are included. (HM)

Using the example of a ten-year-old boy working on a science project, the author discusses the question of when and how much the teacher should intervene and direct a child's independent learning activity. (SJL)

Describes a high school project which integrates art and science by providing biology students with opportunities to exhibit student art work on biological subjects. (CS)

Describes the development and workings of the Jupiter Environmental Research and Field Studies Academy that focuses on enabling both teachers and students to participate in real-life learning experiences. Discusses qualifications for admittance, curriculum, location, ongoing projects, students, academics, preparation for life, problem solving, and…

Describes results and experiences of four field-course experiments designed to explore the relationships between animals and their physical environment. Reports on the response of animals to flow rate of water, relationship between size and rate of locomotion, and mathematical and physical techniques used to study how animals live. (RT)

Describes an exercise in which students convert lithostratigraphic columns into chronostratigraphic columns, infer paleolatitude using paleomagnetic data, interpret depositional environments, determine the timing of deformation and terrane collision, construct models, and synthesize the results into a geologic history. Background data, procedures,…

Describes a project that encouraged combining pictures and words by middle school students to create science picture books. Suggests six steps to help students plan, research, and create picture books. Discusses a variety of final products that emerged, and benefits of the project. (BAC)

Describes one school's efforts to collaborate with community businesses, technical schools, and universities, to provide increased educational opportunities through student projects at a time when funding for school science programs has diminished. (LZ)

A science teacher at an Alaska correspondence school discusses the educational uses of electronic mail (enhancing the relationship between teacher and distant student, encouraging early computer literacy and reflective communication skills, and promoting interschool collaboration) and describes a telecommunications-based science project involving…

Describes the development, implementation, and results of a pond life elementary student research project. Utilizing the pond life example, provides guidelines for children's research projects including the implementation of the K-W-L (know-want to know- learned) strategy with the children's reports/projects. Provides resources utilized in the…

Communication spreads knowledge worldwide. It could be argued that "communication" is one of the greatest human achievements. In this article, the author briefly describes some key technologies associated with the archiving and communication of information. Since communication technologies continue to evolve at a fast pace, he simply focuses on…