The US Forest Service has a long history of youth conservation education. We investigated U.S. Forest Service citizen science programs that involve secondary school students in field collection of monitoring data to understand (1) how the programs integrated science and environmental education and (2) whether these programs advance ecological…

Excursions to museums and science centres generally are great fun for students and teachers. The potential educational benefits beyond enjoyment, however, are rarely realised or analysed for their efficacy. The purpose of this paper is to describe four educational enrichment programs delivered at the Gravity Discovery Centre (GDC), near Gingin,…

This paper reports on several phases of a five-year science education development project in Nunavut, Canada. The project, in its entirety, was established as a Pilot Program for Nunavut schools in effort to understand school community aspirations for science education and potential contributors and impediments to fostering the realization of…

Place- and community-based education--an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local--addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend young people's attention beyond the classroom to the world as…

In an effort to develop an engineering design project that would deliver the necessary content and reach out to the English Language Learner (ELL) community, faculty in the Engineering Academy at Springdale High School in Springdale, Arkansas instituted the ELL Engineering Collaborative. The ELL Engineering Collaborative has four primary goals…

This issue of the newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has as its theme International Science Education. It contains reports from five science education projects located in Great Britain, the West Indies, Africa, Thailand, and Australia. Also included is an article by Dr. Albert V. Baez, Chairman of the AAAS…

Examines the general background, objectives and organizational patterns of team teaching. Advantages and problems of the instructional approach are discussed. Bibliography. (LC)

This paper, presented at the 1971 Annual School Science and Mathematics Association Convention, identifies crucial directions in science curriculum planning and discusses the supporting rationale. (DT)

Includes a description of Project Synthesis with its three-fold purpose: to describe the desired state of science education, to delineate the actual state of science education, and to assess the differences between the actual and the desired states. (MA)

Describes a program which focuses on the care and study of animals. The program, part of a grades K-6 science curriculum, emphasizes science process skills and encourages students to develop a questioning attitude about the world while they gain a sizable amount of background information about the animal world. (JN)

Describes the developmental sequence to determine and validate educational objectives for a nutrition education curriculum. Lists learner objectives and subsets of skills, knowledge, and attitudes. (Author/MA)

Describes the process of objective identification through the development and use of an objective priorization instrument responded to by a stratified, random sample of the Society for Nutrition Education (SNE) membership. (Author/MA)

Described are the rationales for the Engineering Practices Introductory Course Sequence (EPICS) program at the Colorado School of Mines, and the McMaster Problem-Solving (MPS) program at McMaster University. The professional development model used in these programs is discussed. (CW)

National and International Conferences on Environmental Education have been held over the last three years. These provide a global perspective that is translated into goals and objectives for environmental education programs in the United States. Emphasis is on the need to educate people to the fact that all mankind shares the earth and that with…

A brief outline of the Australian educational system, emphasizing the organization of science education in the various states, provides the framework for a description of the origin, role, and function of the Australian Science Education Project (ASEP) established jointly in 1969 by the Federal and State governments. The aims of the project, all…