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Direct linkLandes, Nancy M.; Carlson Powell, Janet; Short, James B. – Science and Children, 2004
What could be more vital to teachers' everyday work in the classroom than the curriculum and instructional materials they use? Instructional materials help guide both what and how teachers teach and what and how students learn. These materials play a prominent role in the lives of students and teachers, yet most educators are not aware that the…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Professional Development, Media Selection, Science Instruction
Peer reviewedScience and Children, 1975
Describes modifying a slide projector into a macro-projector to show objects too small for an overhead projector and too big for a micro-projector. Describes a box to produce multiple images of objects. (BR)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Elementary School Science, Instruction, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedWhite, Barry E. – Science and Children, 1975
Describes how beekeeping became a class project and the educational benefits of the project. Also describes how to prepare a group to maintain its own hive and suggests resource materials. (BR)
Descriptors: Biology, Elementary School Science, Instruction, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedMayfield, Margie; Padilla, Michael – Science and Children, 1979
Simple soap bubbles can be used to have children make educationally valuable discoveries about how materials behave, what their properties are, and how they can be used or changed. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Instructional Materials, Laboratory Procedures
Peer reviewedMechling, Kenneth R.; Twiest, Gilbert L. – Science and Children, 1979
Describes care and feeding of Anoles (chameleons), including suggested classroom activities. (BB)
Descriptors: Biology, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedLovi, George – Science and Children, 1973
Descriptors: Astronomy, Earth Science, Instructional Materials, Physical Sciences
Peer reviewedBatoff, Mitchell E.; Harmen, Jerry – Science and Children, 1973
Describes multiple uses of empty film cans for equipping an elementary school science classroom. Instructional units in which film cans may be useful include buoyancy, mobiles, growing seeds, peas and particles, rocks and minerals, structures, field studies, sound, balancing, electricity, pedulums, chemical change, and optics, light, color. (PS)
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Instructional Materials, Resource Materials, Science Activities
Peer reviewedMcCormack, Alan J. – Science and Children, 1973
Descriptors: Biology, Botany, Elementary School Science, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedScience and Children, 1973
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Instruction, Instructional Materials, Planetariums
Peer reviewedScience and Children, 1972
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, General Science, Instructional Materials, Science Activities
Peer reviewedAlfke, Dorothy E. – Science and Children, 1971
Provides instructions for building and using a model to demonstrate the function of household fuses in electrical circuits. (CP)
Descriptors: Electricity, Elementary School Science, Instructional Materials, Laboratory Equipment
Peer reviewedScience and Children, 1972
Procedures for using soap films to determine the shortest series of lines connecting several points. (CP)
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Instructional Materials, Laboratory Procedures, Resource Materials
Peer reviewedVictor, Robert C. – Science and Children, 1971
Descriptors: Astronomy, Earth Science, Elementary School Science, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedBrown, William R. – Science and Children, 1977
Describes a variation of "the suffocating candle" activity used to develop the process of predicting based on reliable data. Instead of using jars of varying sizes under which the burning time of candles is measured, the same jar is used while the candle is elevated on varying numbers of blocks. (CS)
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Process Education, Science Experiments, Secondary Education
Rop, Sheryl K.; Rop, Charles J. – Science and Children, 2005
When it comes to selecting science trade books, there are plenty of lists and guides that identify good books; however, when it is time to create a unit or add to the classroom library, selecting appropriate books can still be a challenge. Recommended books may not be available in the school or local libraries, and budget constraints may prohibit…
Descriptors: Reading Material Selection, Library Materials, Science Education, Science Materials
