Noting that the interests of primary school age children (grades kindergarten through third) focus strongly on such topics as rocks, dinosaurs, volcanoes, weather, moon and stars, and further noting that the new elementary school curricula as developed for the primary level make relatively little use of earth science content, the authors have…

The development of the Crustal Evolution Education Project (CEEP) is discussed from a historical perspective. John Dewey's Laboratory School and Ralph Tyler's Rationale are included. (MA)

Environmental Studies for Urban Youth (ES) for first grade through college and the primary concerns of the Earth Science Teacher Preparation Project (ESTPP), both developed by the AGI's Earth Science Education Program, are considered. (PR)

Descirbes a secondary science program designed to increase enrollment by offering semester courses. Thirty courses, in the biological and physical sciences, are offered for one semester and one-half credit. Earth science enrollment has increased significantly in the upper grade classes. Student evaluations are mostly favorable. (MA)

Presents developments in the teaching of earth science in Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, and Colombia. (GS)

Reports on an undergraduate earth science course for non-science majors structured around five-week minicourses. Evaluates student and teacher response to the program. (CP)

Describes the rationale and structure of a newly developed earth science program for elementary school children (K-3). The activities involve pre-operational and concrete operational stages, progressing from one to the other. Children show sustained interest and enthusiasm as they investigate landforms, the moon, fossils, and weather phenomena.…

This report synthesizes and summarizes the presentations and discussion at the 1970 Conference on Training of Marine Technicians in the Junior Colleges. These issues relating to marine technology education are considered: how valid manpower predictions can be translated into meaningful program development; how involvement between potential…

Presented is an elementary school science program designed to offer a basic continuum of process objectives and concepts. A brief history of the development of the Wappingers Central School District's Elementary Science Committee is presented to help lay the groundwork for the redesigning of the science program described. Potential advantages…

Discussed is the Scope, Sequence, and Coordination science curriculum in which students study a combination of biology, chemistry, physics, and earth/space science over a six-year period. The implementation of this curriculum in various schools is described. (KR)

This document describes Project A+, a cooperative school and privately funded program designed to assist the Austin Independent School District (AISD) in becoming an exemplary school district by the year 2000. The project is divided into four components. The curriculum development component presents three new curricula piloted in AISD schools in…