Presents a framework to help schools make environmental education integrated. The framework is also designed to help teachers decide if and what activities would be appropriate for their classes and to show how decisions can be made which relate environmental education within and across grades. (Author/EB)

Describes a workshop and pilot program in which over one hundred elementary school teachers attempted to procure an indepth awareness of the local community surroundings. The program was an attempt to further studies relating elementary science and social studies through "inquiry into an urban environment." (EB)

Briefly describes an instructional program based on the individual needs of students that was designed for grades K-8. (EB)

Describes an ecology laboratory summer school designed to help eight- to eleven-year-olds become more aware of their environment. Presents the approaches taken in examining various major questions relating man, animals and plants. (EB)

Presents exploratory activities for preschool children as they seek to become acquainted with the world about them. Some of the ways in which these experiences involve science concepts are discussed. (Author/EB)

Presents a brief description, including dates and estimated time of appearance, of a total eclipse of the moon. Suggested details for observing, requiring little or no experience or equipment, are presented. (EB)

Describes precautions that should be taken and procedures that should be followed to minimize the risk of accidents in the school science laboratory. (JR)

Describes how to establish a colony of isopods (pill bugs) and suggests how these organisms may be used in teaching elementary school science. (JR)

Describes methods of developing and using cultures of microoganisms suitable for use in elementary school science classes. Emphasis is placed upon the characteristics and culturing of amoeba, paramecia, euglena, rotifers, and algae. (JR)

Presents the view that the use of behavioral objectives in the science curriculum may conflict with inquiry and violate the philosophy of investigation. (JR)

Describes a community program in which volunteers, from nine-year-old girl scouts to eighty-year-old retired citizens, assist in preparing materials for the local school's science classes. (JR)

Describes an elementary school science activity in which students conduct experiments to verify their hypotheses relating to the effect of salt and other chemicals on the melting point on ice. (JR)

Discusses the concept of time zones around the world and describes a teaching aid that is useful in helping students to understand this concept. (JR)

Describes an experiment, conducted by sixth-grade students, with mice that demonstrates the importance of a balanced diet. (JR)