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Download full textHechinger, Fred M.; Russell, Avery – Carnegie Quarterly, 1995
This issue of Carnegie Quarterly focuses on a middle grades life science project in which students work together in groups to explore the properties of DNA. The project, entitled HumBio, was developed to capture young people's interest in science by promoting an understanding of their own biology so they can see how their health and well-being are…
Descriptors: Biology, Class Activities, Demonstration Programs, DNA
Blosser, Patricia E., Ed.; Mayer, Victor J., Ed. – Investigations in Science Education, 1981
Presented are analytical abstracts, prepared by science educators, of four research studies classified as relating to science curricula, four studies about learning, and one study on the evaluation of an instrument designed to measure students' orientation toward science. Three of the curriculum studies each relate to a specific curriculum project…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, College Science
