Designed to serve as a resource for science teachers, kindergarten through college, this publication contains 10 chapters, each focused on a topic of interest to science teachers working in the 1980's. Chapter titles and their authors are: (1) Understanding Science as a Cultural Phenomenon - Mission for the 80's, Drew Christianson; (2) What Research Says about Student-Student Interaction in Science Classrooms, Roger T. Johnson and David W. Johnson; (3) Linking Teacher Behaviors and Student Behaviors in Science, James R. Okey and David P. Butts; (4) Learning Science in Informal Settings Outside the Classroom, John J. Koran, Jr., and Lynn D. Shafer; (5) The Effects of Activity-Based Science in Elementary Schools, Ted Bredderman; (6) Attitudes and Science Education, Carl F. Berger; (7) The Role of Laboratory Work in Science Courses: Implications for College and High School Levels, Elizabeth H. Hegarty; (8) Problems in Understanding Physics (Kinematics) Among Beginning College Students - With Implications for High School Courses, Lillian C. McDermott; (9) Conceptual Development Research in the Natural Setting of a Secondary School Science Classroom, James Minstrell; and (10) The Computer and the Teacher, Joseph I. Lipson and Laurette F. Lipson. A brief biographical sketch of each of the contributors is also included. (PEB)