This book which is intended for children in grades 4 through 6 includes information concerning the space industry and career opportunities. Included are five separate chapters, a summary, and a bibliography of children's books. The book describes a sequence of events taking place in a hypothetical elementary school classroom in which a space…

THESE LESSON PLANS WERE DEVELOPED, ALONG WITH OTHER MATERIALS SUCH AS (1) DEMONSTRATIONS, (2) FILMS, (3) FILM CLIPS, (4) KEY QUESTIONS, AND (5) POSTERS, FOR USE IN A STUDY TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE LEVELS OF UNDERSTANDING OF CERTAIN CONCEPTS OF FORCES ACHIEVED BY PUPILS IN GRADES 2-6. EVALUATION WAS MADE BY MEANS OF PAPER-AND-PENCIL…

This monograph describes a model for curriculum evaluation and reports data obtained from the application of this model to the assessment of Science - A Process Approach. Section 1 presents the assumptions underlying the theoretical framework upon which the model has been constructed. This is followed by a description of the translation of the…

Textbook teaching and the Essex Electrical Board (EEB) were compared for relative teaching effectiveness. Student and teacher attitudes toward the EEB were also analyzed. A pre- and post-test were administered to both the experimental and control groups, in the same school, at six week intervals. The experimental group, using the EEB, consisted of…

This sourcebook provides direction for the elementary school teacher in working with Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) materials. It focuses on providing insight into the underlying rationale for these materials and on providing suggestions for the implementation of the program in the classroom. Part One provides a brief overview of the…

Assessed was the science achievement of five-and six-year-olds from different socioeconomic backgrounds. Classes included both a middle-class and lower-class pre-school class and a middle-class and a lower-class first grade class. Four additional classes, which were studying a local science curriculum, were chosen to match these same grade-level…

Developed was a "reading free" test to evaluate knowledge and understanding of science by elementary school pupils. This study was made because it was suspected that students reading below grade level were unable to indicate fully their science knowledge on conventional tests. The Pictorial-aural Inventory of Science Knowledge (PISK) was…

Fifty pre-service elementary education majors were studied prior to student teaching to determine if open-minded majors showed greater promise of being capable of teaching science than closed-minded majors. Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale Form E was used to attain a dichotomy in a 50 member methods class. The areas of concern and instruments used to…

This report is an evaluation of "Art for the Elementary Teacher" and "Science for the Elementary Teacher," televised inservice teacher education courses produced by the University of New Hampshire in conjunction with Supervisory Union #21, Hampton, New Hampshire, under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.…

The purpose of this study was to investigate a proposed model for the acquisition of the concept of displacement volume and to compare two methods of conservation task presentation. A 12-stage hierarchical model for the acquisition of the concept was proposed, based on four primary assumptions: (1) concept attainment can be measured by…

This publication is designed as a guide for the instructional program in science for grades 4-6. The first part contains performance goals and conceptual schemes. Emphasis is placed on the teaching of science as content and as process. The processes to be included and outlined are: observing, classifying, communicating, measuring, inferring,…

This document reviews the development of science education in 17 Asian countries since 1969. Also included are seven articles relating to special aspects of science education in Asian countries, and a bibliographical supplement. (SL)

This bibliography relates the various experimental studies done in elementary school science. Every attempt was made to provide a bibliography that is as comprehensive as possible. Only a selected number of the publications put out by the projects themselves are listed. Bibliographical information is provided for obtaining a continuous source of…

This study was conducted to investigate the hypothesis that science teaching, properly done, could have an effect on language usage among elementary school students. A population of 14 fourth-grade classrooms was randomly divided into experimental and control groups. All teachers attended workshops for 90 minutes every two weeks throughout the…

This study was conducted to determine if fifth-grade students can significantly improve their use of logical analysis through a suitable instructional unit taught under ordinary classroom conditions. Concrete teaching materials were developed to familiarize students with the distinction between the valid inference patters--Modus Ponendo Ponens and…