Presents excerpts from the speech given by Hugh Downs at the elementary science luncheon, 1975 national convention of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), in Los Angeles last March. (PEB)

Describes the use of teacher-made discovery kits for use in science activities. Suggestions are provided to help teachers scrounge surplus materials from stores, small manufacturers, doctors and other potential suppliers of free materials. (PEB)

Describes the working of the Mutually Aided Learning (MAL) project in which high school students serve as learning assistants in elementary school classrooms. (PEB)

Provides implications based on the findings of 16 studies focusing on the classroom performance of urban children, with emphasis on language differences of urban and suburban children as these influence achievement. (PEB)

Describes an elementary school science project focusing on hatching chickens. (PEB)

Presents the results of an experiment designed to test two hypotheses: (1) a delay of two weeks at room temperature will have no effect on the viability of fertile chicken eggs and (2) refrigeration will have no effect on the viability of fertile chicken eggs. Experimenters were the author and two ninth-grade students. (PEB)

Describes the author's experiences in using individualized or small-group, self-contained learning units (kits) to teach science. Problems encountered and procedures used in the development of these kits are included. (PEB)

Provides suggestions for an archaeology activity for elementary school children. (PEB)

Gives illustrations for experiences designed to help intermediate (grade 6) children learn to follow directions. Activities, in the form of five stations contained in one classroom, were developed with each activity focused on a different approach to problem solving and observation. (PEB)

Describes several activities using water as an investigative, manipulative, and highly sensory science material for young children. (Author/PEB)

Describes a two-day conference with an assembly of eighty four- and five-year-old children as delegates. Through this conference, students learned what energy is, how it works and devised methods of energy conservation. (EB)

Describes a science project prepared in partial fulfillment of a graduate course in elementary school science taken by the writer to improve his understanding of elementary school curriculum and to make social studies more interdisciplinary. An environmental topic was chosen and open-ended activities generated and described. (EB)

Materials offered as a new approach for students through involvement in their own immediate urban environment. Unit contains eight lessons including a survey made of the immediate neighborhood by the students. Data cards, check-lists, and summary charts are presented. (EB)