This document, from "The Teacher's Desk Reference to Standards and Performance Indicators for Curriculum Planning and Unit Development," is part of the Delaware Department of Education's ongoing efforts to provide assistance and support to local school districts in their development of a standards-based curriculum. It explains the…

This paper discusses the difficulties in transforming the knowledge of science into school knowledge, which is based on the interconnection of scientists/researchers, teachers, and students. Some factors should be taken into consideration during the transformation of scientific knowledge into school knowledge, including the complexity of science…

Science educators have reclaimed the importance of educating to promote a scientifically literate society. Project ICAN: Inquiry, Context, and Nature of Science is a professional development project designed to enhance middle and high school science teachers' knowledge and pedagogical skills that directly address the reform's call for student…

This document supports the integration of the scientific method not only into science teaching but also into the entire curriculum. It argues that the methods and attitudes that have made science the most productive enterprise of the past 300 years can be adapted to most areas of secondary education. The scientist's way of thinking is described,…

This paper defines the processes of evolution and natural selection for the non-scientist, and summarizes its history in the context of scientific racism. Types of creationism are defined, and both evolution and creationism are contextualized in the theoretical frameworks of modernism and postmodernism. The philosophical differences between…

Discusses some aspects in X-ray topography, including formation of dislocations, characteristics of stacking faults, x-ray contrast in defect inspection, Berg-Barrett technique, and Lang traversing crystal and Borrmann's methods. (CC)

Describes the principle involved in an osmotic pump used to extract fresh water from the oceans and in an osmotic power plant used to generate electricity. Although shown to be thermodynamically feasible, the osmotic principle is not likely to be used commerically for these purposes in the near future. (JR)

Discusses some important parameters of the boundary layer and effects of turbulence on the circulation and energy dissipation of the atmosphere. Indicates that boundary-layer research plays an important role in long-term forecasting and the study of air-pollution meteorology. (CC)

By distinguishing interpretive-understanding from subjective insights based on empathy and from explanations based on normative paradigms, the present essay elucidates the methodological foundation of investigations which have as a goal more complete understanding of observed behavior. (Editor)

The first of a two-part paper; the conclusion appears in volume 27, number 4 (SE 506 357). (JM)

Argues that the theologic way of knowing represents a distinctly different and incommensurable process of developing knowledge from that of the natural sciences (and that) 'creation theory' is not an alternative scientific theory to the Neodarwinian theory of evolution" and has no place in a science curriculum, although it may be introduced as…

Curriculum outlines are provided for teaching a two semester organic chemistry course based on scientific principles. Performance objectives for each unit can be developed and an example is described in this article. An attempt is made in this outline to interrelate organic chemistry with other areas of chemistry. (PS)