This document presents standards, benchmarks, and examples that are designed to assist Kansas educators in selecting and developing local curricula, carrying out instruction, and assessing students' progress in science education. They also serve as the foundation for the development of state assessments in science. These standards represent high…

This paper addresses contemporary concerns with the disintegration of meaning and fragmentation of knowledge. It appeals to interdisciplinary curricula, where an effort is made to reveal the interactive relationships among different fields of knowledge. The paper proposes Photography as an interdisciplinary theme, which involves Chemistry,…

The study reported in this paper emerged from a concern that, despite twenty years of theorizing about the practice of environmental education in Australian schools, it continues to be marginalized in the school curriculum. The educational problem to be solved was how to improve the teaching and learning of environmental education in schools and…

This teacher's guide was developed to accompany the giant-screen film, "Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure". The activities featured use a multidisciplinary approach and target students ages 7 through 14. Teacher pages include background information and student pages include instructions and additional information for understanding the…

This document outlines the content standards for science in the state of Colorado. The document is organized into six standards, each of which is subdivided into a set of guiding questions exemplifying the standard and a series of lists defining what is expected of students at each grade level within the standard. The standards are that students…

Is the way being lost in teaching science? Many primary schools do not have a well developed culture of science teaching and learning, there is a declining interest in science over the years 7 to 10, and there are proportionally fewer students continuing onto science in the senior years. In response to these concerns, the Victorian Department of…

Recent education reform documents emphasize the need for students to develop a rich understanding of evolution's power to integrate knowledge of the natural world. This paper describes a nine-week high school course designed to help students understand evolutionary biology by engaging them in developing, elaborating, and using Charles Darwin's…

This paper focuses on the process of knowledge formation and scientific inquiry. Science laboratory settings may provide opportunities for students to participate in scientific inquiry. With scientific inquiry, students develop their beliefs according to experiences in which they use their prior knowledge, experimentation, and problem solving…

This document was developed in response to the expressed need of physical science teachers for materials designed to facilitate and enhance the teaching of the 1999 North Carolina Standard Course of Study for Physical Science. The materials provide a guide to translating the goals and objectives of the Physical Science curriculum into good…

Briefly examines recent trends and developments in tertiary level chemistry in Australia, together with views of its worth, its traditional and non-traditional organization, and the various aims and objectives of chemistry instruction. Attempts to show the implications of these considerations on the teaching of introductory organic chemistry. (JR)

Discusses the place of organic chemistry in the secondary school curriculum, and advocates a mechanistic approach to organic chemistry developed in such a way as to be integrated with general chemistry. (JR)

Criticizes early specialization in O-level courses in Britain and advocates the introduction of combined science at this level. This option would expose students to physics, chemistry and biology and avoid the present specialization that is common when these subjects are taken separately. (JR)

Reports the results of a recent study in Britain which attempts to determine the mathematical skills required in the new secondary school science courses, to what extent modern mathematics meet these needs, and the ways in which school science and mathematics departments can promote more effective learning of these skills. (JR)

Briefly discusses the nature of Colleges of Further Education in Britain and the role of science in their curricula. (JR)