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A Model For Implementing Individualization In The Science Classroom, Barton Philipps

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Teachers today find themselves in the middle of tremendous education changes and as teachers they will be expected to play an important part in implementing course revisions. Which part shall they play? Some have closed their eyes to the new directions and hope they will go away, but like the ostrich these teachers are just fooling themselves. The numbers of open classroom elementary schools are increasing and the traditional ways of presenting science in the high schools will encounter greater student resentment. It therefore behooves teachers to begin to look for a way to introduce change in their classroom. What …

Iowa Science Teachers Journal Publication Information

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

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What Makes Good Science Education Departments Better, James Hungerford

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

What makes a good science department? Instructors that see the whole community and the role they play in it. Second, instructors with a strong sense of loyalty to better education. Third, a basically stable environment to work in and to work on improvement. Instructors that can see ways to, and do, solve problems.

An Alternative To A Project Physics Film Loop, Harold Jensen

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The apparatus used for this experiment was described at a Summer Institute at Knox College. It is very adaptable to the experimental procedure of the film loop Vector-Addition-Velocity of a Boat and deserves more widespread awareness.

Ssma Convention To Be Held In Cincinnati In November

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The School Science and Mathematics Association will hold its 1974 national convention in the Netherland Hilton Hotel in Cincinnati on November 7, 8, and 9.

Anonymous Advertiser Boosts Sun Power

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A challenge to use solar energy was thrown in front of readers of the Wall Street Journal recently. The medium was a full-page advertisement costing $9,000 in which the buyer expressed his confidence in American ingenuity which would free all mankind from energy deficits and make the innovator wealthy as well.

Publications: Assessment Progress Report; Energy-Savers Directory

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Short comments regarding various publications:

- Assessment Progress Report

- Energy-Savers Directory