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A Naturalist At Large: Skin-In, Skin-Out, Marston Bates
A Naturalist At Large: Skin-In, Skin-Out, Marston Bates
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Each semester I arrange a seminar of a dozen or so students who meet one evening a week in the living room of the house. I try to select students with different interests, from different departments of the university, with the idea of getting to know a small but varied sample of the student body. We decide on some topic for discussion during the semester, but whatever the official topic, two subjects - education and sex - always come up, and always generate heated arguments.
A Membership Fairy Tale, Doris M. Timpano
A Membership Fairy Tale, Doris M. Timpano
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
From fairy tale to fact? It can be done! You, the NSTA member, can make the fiction of today turn into the practice of tomorrow through your eagerness to spread the advantages of membership in NSTA to other educators from the kindergarten teacher to the college administrator.
Films
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The following films (From One Cell; Cracking the Code of Life; The Embattled Cell) and materials, especially adaptable for science and biology instructors, are available without charge upon request from the American Cancer Society, Iowa Division, Inc.
Minutes Of The Meeting Of The Flat Society Of Lower Speight Avenue, O. T. Hayward
Minutes Of The Meeting Of The Flat Society Of Lower Speight Avenue, O. T. Hayward
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
This is a review of an effort-largely experimental-to improve the introductory geology course at Baylor University by involving the student in actual research in the teaching process and in geology. An effort has been made, and will be expanded, to remove most of the artificial restraints imposed by formal lecture-laboratory courses.
News And Notes
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
A listing of upcoming science-related meetings and conferences.
Can A Young Man Whose Mind Is On Girls, Booze, Skiing, And High-Class Parties Win The Nobel Prize?, Peter Farb
Can A Young Man Whose Mind Is On Girls, Booze, Skiing, And High-Class Parties Win The Nobel Prize?, Peter Farb
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The Double Helix is a brief story of the structure of the genetic material DNA. As such, it is exceedingly valuable to the historian of science. But another, somewhat irreverent aspect of the book, to be discussed later in this review, makes it an important document for the general reader as well and one that deserves wide reading.
The Willard J. Combs Aerospace Award
The Willard J. Combs Aerospace Award
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Established to honor the late Willard J. Combs who was a teacher in the Des Moines Technical High School and President of the Air Age Education Council of Iowa, as it was then called.
Science And Math Teaching Awards
Science And Math Teaching Awards
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Nomination forms for the annual Iowa Academy of Science Recognition of Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching Awards are now available.
Open Letter From The Executive Secretary, Robert W. Hanson
Open Letter From The Executive Secretary, Robert W. Hanson
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
One year ago this space was occupied by an open letter from then President Martin Grant. Dr. Grant is no longer with us, having succumbed June 28 from multiple myeoloma after a long and painful illness. His contributions to the objectives of the Academy through a lifetime of scholarship will stand as a memorial to a great man.
Writing And Evaluating The Laboratory Report, David N. West
Writing And Evaluating The Laboratory Report, David N. West
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
All too often the time-consuming duties of classroom instruction cause laboratory evaluation to take on a minor role. Publishers also have added to this dilemma by burgeoning the market with fill-in-the-blank type laboratory manuals. This paper shows how proper orientation of the student in his laboratory reporting encourages communication skills that include the ability to interpret, analyze, and transmit facts and ideas graphically and in writing. A cognitive approach to the evaluation of these communicative skills may not eliminate paper grading but it will do much toward making it briefer and more productive.
Elementary Science Workshops
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The State Department of Public Instruction and the University of Northern Iowa are cooperatively sponsoring a series of elementary science workshops during the academic year 1968- 1969.
Call For Papers For Spring Meeting
Call For Papers For Spring Meeting
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Titles for contributed papers should be in the hands of all section chairmen soon.
A Method Of Teaching Evolution In High School, Jerome J. Jackson
A Method Of Teaching Evolution In High School, Jerome J. Jackson
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
A little over a century ago, Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin formally presented the concept of evolution to the world. Since Darwin's publication of The Origin of Species, the theory of evolutionism has been attacked from various quarters, primarily by individuals without scientific backgrounds.
Acceptance Of Tobacco Mosaic Virus By Established Tomato Root Cultures, Valerie Halverson
Acceptance Of Tobacco Mosaic Virus By Established Tomato Root Cultures, Valerie Halverson
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
With Haberlandt's idea of cultivating individual cells in vitro, cell tissue culture began in 1902. Sporadic work was done in this area through the ensuing years. However, it was not until White's cultivation of tomato roots for an indefinite time span in 1934 that culture study became significant. Most work has been oriented toward the study of the growth and function of the cell. The research has included various nutritional and environmental studies. The proposition of this research is to use established technique for culturing tomato roots in order to go a step further, and use these cultures to study …
A Study Of Terminal And Advanced High School Science Courses In The State Of Iowa, Richard W. Gates
A Study Of Terminal And Advanced High School Science Courses In The State Of Iowa, Richard W. Gates
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Information for the study was obtained through the use of the facilities of the Iowa Educational Information Center at The University of Iowa and through direct correspondence with the schools. Terminal science courses are those courses for non-college bound students, in addition to general science, biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics.
Fortifying Laboratory Inquiry Through The Use Of Scientific Articles, Bernard W. Benson
Fortifying Laboratory Inquiry Through The Use Of Scientific Articles, Bernard W. Benson
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Using scientific articles in teaching is in itself no innovation. Baumel and Berger (1965) provided an excellent approach to this task. I find no argument with the format they proposed. However, I do question their statement which follows concerning student outcomes from such experiences.
Dr. Porter Receives Award
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Dr. Thomas R. Porter, of The University of Iowa, has been awarded a Patriotic Civilian Service Award by the U.S. Army Weapons Command.
Implications Of An Elective Sophomore Ecology Course, Lynn W. Glass
Implications Of An Elective Sophomore Ecology Course, Lynn W. Glass
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
What does your high school do to provide for an interesting and enriching experience in science for the average student? Since the beginning of PSSC in 1956 all too many of us have been guilty of neglecting the high school general education science program.
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Iowa Science Teachers Journal
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Biology, Its Principles And Implications
Book Review: Biology, Its Principles And Implications
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Book review: Biology, Its Principles and Implications, by Garrett Hardin
Nsta National Convention
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The National Science Teachers Association will hold its 1968 national convention in Washington, D.C., March 29-April 2.
Science Curricular Projects
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Inquiries have been received concerning science curricular projects at the elementary and junior high level. Project title and addresses are given for those who would like more information on these projects.
Raising Japanese Quail In The Laboratory, Kashmiri L. Arora
Raising Japanese Quail In The Laboratory, Kashmiri L. Arora
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Within a few years, the use of Coturniz coturnix japonica, popularly known as Japanese quail, as a laboratory research animal has increased tremendously in the United States and also abroad. Currently, a variety of laboratories conducting investigations on different aspects of biological and related areas are using this bird as an experimental animal. We have learned from its use in both individual and class experiments that it is also a very useful animal for classroom experimentation.
Cba, Chems, Traditional: The Dilemma, Verne A. Troxel
Cba, Chems, Traditional: The Dilemma, Verne A. Troxel
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Since the advent of the CHEMS and CBA chemistry materials, many teachers have been in a state of confusion as to whether they should use these new materials. Perhaps there is now, or soon will be, adequate research available to you so you can make your choice between the two new programs and the more conventional approach to chemistry.
Publications: The Microstructure Of Cells; The Human Story; A Laboratory Text For Physical Science
Publications: The Microstructure Of Cells; The Human Story; A Laboratory Text For Physical Science
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Reviews of several publications: The Microstructure of Cells; The Human Story; A Laboratory Text for Physical Science.
Your Endangered Heritage And Your Children, Arnold O. Haugen
Your Endangered Heritage And Your Children, Arnold O. Haugen
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Keynote speech before the Iowa Junior Academy of Science, April 21, 1967, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.
A Guide To Science Reading
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
This is a comprehensive, annotated guide to more than 900 paper-bound science books in each of fifty-four scientific and mathematical categories.
Let's Teach Geology As The Science Of The Earth, Chalmer J. Roy
Let's Teach Geology As The Science Of The Earth, Chalmer J. Roy
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The past decade has been marked by spectacular events in science and technology. The launching of Sputnik I in October 1957 was followed by public hysteria in the United States over the low estate of our education in science.