Organizing school wilderness and wildlife clubs is suggested as a way to work with students to save endangered species. Typical club activities and ways to start such clubs are discussed. (Author/JN)

Suggesting that listening is a learned behavior, offers a number of techniques to help science teachers develop listening skills in their students. These include speaking loud enough with directness and clarity, emphasizing important material by repetition, and keeping vocabulary on the student level. (Author/JN)

Reports survey results from 162 teachers, 24 administrators, and 30 professionals on science supervisor roles in order that most fit their needs. Roles relate to concerns in instruction, curriculum, staff development, implementation, management, assessment, and assignment/transfer/load. Implications are briefly discussed. (JN)

Provides suggestions for conducting field trips at the local school site. Points of interest might include building materials, evidence of chemical/physical weathering, variations in soil type, changes in elevation on school ground, and others. Three simple field trips are described. (JN)

Describes a method of staining that makes details clear and dispenses with the time-consuming use of chemicals. The Rheinberg differential color illumination, (or optical staining) is strikingly beautiful and is especially useful with living or nonliving unstained, transparent specimens. Color photographs of sample specimens are included.…

Types of weather phenomena that can be demonstrated in a home bathroom are discussed. For example, if the bathroom is small enough, warm, moist air can be seen accumulating in the upper part of the room after taking a hot shower. (Author/JN)

Discusses continental drift, sea floor spreading, evidence for these two geological phenomena, and how they were unified into a theory of plate tectonics. Also discusses three types of plate boundaries: (1) divergent junctions, (2) convergent junctions, and (3) shear junctions. (Author/JN)

To combine writing with science, the writing of cinquain poetry was incorporated into a unit on water. Instructions for writing the poetry and examples are provided. The cinquain exercise can be used for a wide variety of earth science excercises and is suitable for other science areas. (Author/JN)

At the end of a secondary school science study of mechanics, a summary lab uses a motorcycle to provide students with the chance to apply some of the concepts they have studied. Exercises from this motorcycle physics lab are discussed. (Author/JN)

Suggests instructional strategies and student activities related to the study of insects during the winter. Includes possible collecting sites and classroom activities once the insects have been collected. (JN)

Focusing on student misconceptions in science, indicates that student enter classes with their own conceptual structure for organizing/understanding the world and that after instruction the conceptual understanding of a topic remains unchanged. Techniques related to teaching concepts are discussed, including identification of students' initial…

Describes the use of an Energy-Environment Simulator in environmental/energy education programs. The simulator is a specially designed analog computer that simulates real-world conditions of energy production and use. Energy resources, demands, and the environmental effects of energy use are programmed into the computer. (Author/JN)

Provides seven lists of supplies and equipment for teaching science methodology to preservice teachers. Although by no means complete, the list provides materials necessary for basic demonstrations and activities appropriate for engaging K-8 children in science. (Author/JN)

Presents the National Science Teachers Associations's (NSTA) position statement on the place of the laboratory in science education followed by other statements unique for teaching science in middle, junior, and senior high schools. Statements focus on teaching, research, and curriculum perspectives, laboratory's role, and laboratory's enhancement…

Describes a six-week simulation of basic research in which high school students acquire, observe, describe, illustrate, and report on an invertebrate of their choice. Includes chart used to evaluate student monographs, and comments relating to student experiences while engaged in their projects. (Author/JN)