The authors conducted a test to determine whether they could incorporate a discovery box into a preschool setting was successful. It stimulated the students' natural inquiry processes while promoting understanding of healthy foods and allowing for practice of fine-motor skills. It was easily incorporated into the curriculum and classroom space.…

A major part of developing concept-based instruction is the use of an overarching idea to provide a conceptual lens through which students view the content of a particular subject. By using a conceptual lens to focus learning, students think at a much deeper level about the content and its facts (Erickson 2007). Therefore, the authors collaborated…

Presents a framework to help schools make environmental education integrated. The framework is also designed to help teachers decide if and what activities would be appropriate for their classes and to show how decisions can be made which relate environmental education within and across grades. (Author/EB)

Lists steps employed by Mesa County Valley School District No. 51 (Grand Junction, CO) in choosing an elementary school science program. Also lists the twelve criteria used in evaluating and comparing elementary science programs and by which a final selection was made. (CS)

Suggests areas of consideration when "custom fitting" a science program to a school district, its teachers, students, and resources of time, space, and equipment. (CS)

Introduces a three year project on the investigation of science assessment. Explains the approach that teachers used in studying the standards, then building a grade-specific unit. Focuses on Content Standard D of the National Science Education Standards (NSES). (YDS)

Describes the impact on preschool science of several educational pioneers including Pestalozzi, Dewey and Montessori. (LS)

Briefly describes an instructional program based on the individual needs of students that was designed for grades K-8. (EB)

Describes major theses of Piaget's work on development of intelligence. Implications of this work are significant in terms of methods, curriculum, and sequence of topics and activities used in science classrooms. Author cautions, however, that work of other child psychologists should not be completely forgotten because of Piaget's ideas. (PS)

The approach used in North Carolina for bringing about changes in science instruction in elementary schools was based mainly on the idea that teachers and local administrators should participate fully in making curricular decisions. A bulletin was produced which provided detailed outlines, examples and procedures for evaluating curriculum…

Encourages the integration of science into other subject areas and into current events as a means to increase the emphasis upon science in the elementary school curriculum. (CP)

Describes a teacher education program involving preparation in elementary school science and emphasizing the humanistic approach and student responsibility. (CP)

Urges the use of the immediate environment of the school to serve as a focus and a medium to help plan activities and experiments in the different subject areas of science, and in the area of environment. (GA)

Describes a talented and gifted (TAG) curriculum for elementary and secondary students in Maryland. Discusses methods used to identify TAG students, educational opportunities utilizing community resources, and curriculum development.