Museum educators have a longstanding presence in museums and play a significant role in the institutions' educational agenda. However, research on field trips to science museums has predominantly explored teachers' and students' perspectives with little acknowledgment of the museum educators who develop and implement the educational programs the…

Describes factors to be considered before and during implementation of new curricula. Includes question lists and suggested strategies specifically for implementing new "teacher-proof" curricula. (SL)

Describes Eleusis, a card game invented in the mid-1950s to stimulate various features of scientific inquiry. The analogies between Eleusis and scientific methods are also discussed to illustrate the effectiveness of this game for reinforcing science teaching. (HM)

Describes the adaptation process involved in modifying the outdoor biology instructional strategies (OBIS) project to the local environment and educational system in Israel. (HM)

Presents the Nuffield Junior Science Project (NJSP), an elementary science program developed in the United Kingdom. Some learning activities that are contained in Nuffield Junior Science Teacher's Guide I are described. (HM)

Presents specific guidelines which content-oriented science teachers can follow in order to develop subject-matter comprehension, decision-making skills, and values/moral clarification and reasoning processes in their students. (Author/HM)

Presents a student centered science curriculum model utilizing inquiry strategy and language rich experiences to develop student skills of questioning, thinking, speaking, listening, and reading. (SL)

Presents environmental education field exercises which illustrate the influence of urbanization on land surface. A practical example with the appropriate data analysis is included. (SL)

Examines a free choice program and ways seventh graders choose their own activities in five science categories: (1) Mechanical; (2) Physics; (3) Chemistry; (4) Biology, and (5) Combinational. Results suggest that the challenge format for the activities allows students to practice what they have learned and consolidate their knowledge. (HM)

Reports a study describing children's learning about controlling variables in an environment where student autonomy is maximized and teacher controlled instruction is minimized. (SL)

Describes a way of teaching science designed to stimulate interest among non-science majors to help make science a more meaningful subject to them. Attention is focused on the study of a particular type of air pollution and on the use of the discipline of art to examine the effects of this pollution. (EB)

Describes an educational TV series, broadcast in Pennsylvania, called Science for the Seventies (SFTS), which presents science lessons for the elementary level. Each lesson consists of objectives, background information, an equipment list, and four or five related science activities. (MLH)

Presented is an experiment investigating children's awareness of regularities in physical phenomena and their capacity for expressing these regularities. Hypothesized and confirmed is that children can use statements with the form and purpose of a physical law. Cartoons related to Archimedes' principle (and connected gravitation and fluid…

Presents a review of research on the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS). Areas addressed include: (1) teacher education; (2) student cognitive and affective outcomes; (3) teacher and student facilitative characteristics and behaviors; and (4) ISCS instructional materials. (JN)

Presents a general theory of improvisation and its role in the teaching of science. Includes a definition of improvisation, a discussion of curiosity-motivated and logically motivated questions, and illustrative examples from physics. (JN)