Reviews Solar Energy Education Project (SEEP), a set of 10 curriculum guides emphasizing process skills as well as content for grades K-9. Solar concepts are taught almost exclusively through process activities and, although developed in Australia, the curriculum is easily adaptable to American classrooms. (Author/JN)

Describes a program in which a community college offered its instructional and physical resources to local gifted and talented high school students and their teachers. Students, accompanied by their teachers, performed research on the college campus. Indicates the importance of teachers being on campus with students. (SK)

Reviews "Green Survival, It's Something You Do," an audiovisual program developed by the American Association of Nurserymen to develop students' awareness of the environmental benefits of green plants, and to encourage participation in individual/community landscape improvements. Also reviews the revised Addison-Wesley K-6 science program. (JN)

Described is Xavier University of Louisiana Piagetian-based general chemistry program. Laboratory experiments are in the learning cycle format and place emphasis on learning by doing. Aspects of the curriculum described include synopses of content covered, laboratory-preceding lectures, list of laboratory experiments covered, and evaluation of the…

Presented are critical comments on the British Schools Council, Science Committee, Programmes of Work 1980-82, and financial allocations to various curriculum and instructional projects. The author's personal frustrations while serving on the Science Committee are also given. (JN)

Described is the development and implementation of the Israel Elementary Science Project (MATAL) established in 1968 which used British and American programs as its foundation, but modified them for application to the needs of less developed countries. Structure, content, teacher training, and enrichment programs of MATAL are discussed. (Author/DS)

This essay is the third in a series on innovators in the teaching of elementary-school science. Palmer's ideas and work on nature study and their relevance to children's education are described. His resume and a list of his publications are also included. (HM)

Describes environmental projects completed by Worcester Polytechnic Institute students in Bangkok, Venice, and Guayaquil as part of a program studying the interaction of science or technology and society. The lessons provide a model for environmental education at other institutions. These interdisciplinary projects promote environmental awareness…

Describes a workshop to provide parents, their elementary school children, and elementary teachers with a common science learning environment. It included 45 activities/demonstrations with directions and learning notes. The primary goal was to promote inquiry through involvement and interaction with each other, discovery, discussion, and thinking…

Presents and integrates findings from selected research and evaluation studies of informal science learning in different settings such as school-based field trips, student projects, community-based science programs, visits to museums and zoos, the press, and electronic media. Contains 91 references. (DDR)

Describes a World Wide Web-based, user-friendly, language-independent graphical user interface providing access to visualizations created for GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment), a multinational program of education and science. (DDR)

Discusses the necessities of regional resource centers for K-12 levels. Provides some examples of centers and describes their activities. Suggests three conditions for the success of a center. (YP)

Examined is the effectiveness of a smoking-prevention program in modifying high school students' attitudes and values in such categories as health, peer pressure, and social image as related to smoking. The intervention lasted four to six weeks within the framework of ninth- and tenth-grade biology classes. (Author/YP)

Outlines sources of federal money for precollege science and mathematics education. Summarizes programs of various organizations: (1) National Science Foundation; (2) Department of Energy; (3) American Association for the Advancement of Science; (4) National Science Teachers Association; (5) National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; and (6)…

Mentoring can help ethnic minority students improve communication abilities, remove barriers to academic progress, understand science and other technological concepts, improve math skills, learn good study habits, better test-taking skills, cope with problems, remain in school. Iowa State University's Science Bound is a three-way mentoring…