This study explores how K-8 critically conscious dual-language science teachers (CCDLSTs) working with bilingual learners (BLs) practice their critical consciousness via the four tenets of dual-language education: ideological clarity, pedagogical perspective and clarity, access for all, and equitable spaces (IPAE). This study is informed by the…

A teacher professional development program for in-service elementary school science teachers, the Rice Elementary Model Science Lab (REMSL), was developed for urban school districts serving predominately high-poverty, high-minority students. Teachers with diverse skills and science capacities came together in Professional Learning Communities, one…

Describes a teaching program that encourages student creativity by stimulating them to invent'' Rube Goldbergian apparatus from discarded materials in creativity kits supplied by the teacher and supplemented by students. (AL)

Describes the basic principles of setting up an aquarium and gives hints on its use as an instructional aid in elementary classrooms, both in generating biological questions and investigations and in its use in other parts of the science curriculum. (AL)

Poses a series of questions to start student investigation of the effect of varying the dimensions of a piece of grass or other flat ribbon of material on the sound that is produced when it is used as a reed between the thumbs. (AL)

THE EFFECTIVE USE OF QUESTIONING IN THE TEACHING OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCIENCE IS DISCUSSED IN THIS BULLETIN. SAMPLE QUESTIONS ARE USED TO ILLUSTRATE (1) WAYS IN WHICH KEY WORDS AFFECT PUPIL INVESTIGATIONS AND (2) PATTERNS OF QUESTIONING THAT RESULT IN STUDENT DECISION-MAKING AND PUPIL-DIRECTED PROCEDURES. A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE COGNITIVE AND…

Sixty pupils from the third grade of a public school in a middle class suburban community were randomly assigned to four groups. Pupils in one of the groups were given, individually, a two-lesson instructional sequence using the audio-tutorial mode. Pupils in a second group were given the same two-lesson sequence in the teacher-directed, group…