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A History Of Science Crossword Puzzle, Timothy Cooney
A History Of Science Crossword Puzzle, Timothy Cooney
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
How is your memory? The names of famous contributors to science provide the answers to the following crossword puzzle.
Thomas Edison/Max Mcgraw Scholarship
Thomas Edison/Max Mcgraw Scholarship
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The Thomas Alva Edison Foundation and the Max McGraw Foundation are once again co-sponsoring a scholar hip program which this year will be open to all high school students with an interest in science and engineering.
Editor's Corner, Chuck Haman, Carl Bollwinkel
Editor's Corner, Chuck Haman, Carl Bollwinkel
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
I want to take this opportunity to thank all of those individual who have supported the Iowa Science Teachers Journal during the past eight years of my tenure. No editor can produce a journal without such support. The journal's new editor is Carl Bollwinkel. Carl teaches science at Price Laboratory School at the University of Northern Iowa. The journal could not have a better setting or editor.
An Interesting Wintertime Temperature Phenomenon, Laurent Hodges
An Interesting Wintertime Temperature Phenomenon, Laurent Hodges
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
In the course of studying residential energy use in central Iowa, I kept track of the hourly temperatures recorded in Des Moines. The temperatures were simply those published daily in the Des Moines Register (with occasional obvious corrections). I noticed that during the winter months in Iowa there are occasionally long periods (up to a few days) when there is remarkably little change in outdoor air temperature, and these always occur near the freezing point of water.
Element-Ary Puns, Rita K. Voltmer, Jody M. Hines, James L. Kelly
Element-Ary Puns, Rita K. Voltmer, Jody M. Hines, James L. Kelly
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The periodic table offers a lot of information, most of which is usually not used by high school students. However, it is important for students of chemistry, biology and physics to have some background related to the elements that make up the periodic table. Several students were working with a periodic table and realized they could make studying the elements more enjoyable by making up some statements that led to the actual naming of the element. For example: If you want to catch wild horses, europium.
Science Notes - Iowa Academy Of Science Highlights Of The 1984 Annual Meeting, April 27-28, 1984, University Of Iowa, Iowa City
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Three General Session speakers are planned for this year's Iowa Academy of Science meeting. At 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Dr. Eugene Rasmusson of the Climate Analysis Center; in Washington, D.C., will speak on "The El Nino/Southern Oscillation Phenomenon and Global Climate Fluctuations." Dr. Rasmusson was one of the early observers of climatological phenomena which have affected our weather the last few years.
Science Notes - Summer Science Programs For High School Students
Science Notes - Summer Science Programs For High School Students
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
This year, the Secondary Student Training Program at The University of Iowa will celebrate twenty-five years of providing enrichment experiences for secondary students.
Science Notes - Contest Winners: Matt Manning And Derek Olsen
Science Notes - Contest Winners: Matt Manning And Derek Olsen
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Organisms which live in a drop of pond water was the subject of the art work on the cover of the autumn ISTJ. Those organisms were not only the cover subject but the basis of a contest to find the students who could most correctly and neatly label those organisms. And now I have the pleasure of announcing the contest winners: Matt Manning and Derek Olsen.
Science Notes - Book News : Science Safety For Elementary Teachers
Science Notes - Book News : Science Safety For Elementary Teachers
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Science Safety for Elementary Teachers, recently published by the Iowa State University Press, is designed to help elementary school teachers make their classrooms safer places in which to learn.
Editor's Corner - Crisis In Science Education: A Partial Solution?, Carl W. Bollwinkel, Richard L. Wilson
Editor's Corner - Crisis In Science Education: A Partial Solution?, Carl W. Bollwinkel, Richard L. Wilson
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The crisis in science education and the article published in the Autumn 1983 issue of ISTJ has prompted one of our readers to share the following.
Officers, Iowa Academy Of Science; Officers & Regional Directors, Iowa Science Teachers Section; Editorial Staff & Boards
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
No abstract provided.
Reading Rocks: Early History Of Paleontology, Mary Simonis-Parish, Doris A. Simonis
Reading Rocks: Early History Of Paleontology, Mary Simonis-Parish, Doris A. Simonis
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The word paleontology is taken from the Greek words 'palaios' meaning old, 'ontos' a being, and 'logos' to study (Hamlyn, 1968). It is usually loosely translated to mean 'the study of past life', or 'the study of fossils'. Though the word itself has been used only in recent times, an interest in fossils (as interesting objects literally "dug out of the earth") is probably as old as humankind. The subject of this paper is the development of ideas that deal with the significance and origin of fossils. The explanations range from ancient times up to the nineteenth century when fossils …
Energy Crunch
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Chop up some spinach, throw in some fat, add water, sunlight and a few other chemicals, and you may end up with a recipe for easing the energy crunch. At the Michigan State University laboratory of biophysicist Dr. H. Ti Tien , these ingredients are used to make a device for generating electricity directly from sunlight.
Films, Fractions, Ratios And Reels, David Duncan, Bonnie Litwiller
Films, Fractions, Ratios And Reels, David Duncan, Bonnie Litwiller
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Many teachers show films in their classes to supplement scientific concepts. In addition to learning from the content of the film, significant mathematical ideas may be found by observing the motions of the projector itself.
Wood Won't Work, James Hungerford
Wood Won't Work, James Hungerford
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Electric power plants are rated in terms of megawatts of electric power. A 1,000 megawatt power plant will produce the electric needs for about one million people.
Lantz Summer Awards For Graduate Study
Lantz Summer Awards For Graduate Study
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The College of Natural Sciences of the University of Northern Iowa announces the availability of financial awards to pay tuition costs of graduate study during Summer Session 1983 in the fields of Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Physics, Science, and Science Education.
Rocket Workshop, Robert L. Cannon
Rocket Workshop, Robert L. Cannon
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Would you like a popular, educationally sound, hands-on workshop for your next convention or conference? The workshops on the educational applications of model rocketry put on by Estes Industries have proven very popular. The basic workshop requires a time period of 1½ to 2 hours for the talk, demonstrations, and actual construction of a model rocket by each teacher participant. We have conducted these workshops for area and national conventions of the National Science Teachers Association and for teacher groups in over half the States.
Officers, Iowa Academy Of Science; Editorial Staff ; Officers & Regional Directors, Iowa Science Teachers Section; Advisory & Technical Review Boards
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
No abstract provided.
The Search For Excellence In Science Education, John E. Penick
The Search For Excellence In Science Education, John E. Penick
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
In 1976 several NSF funded studies revealed the current state of science education in the United States. In 1978, a synthesis of the more than 2,000 pages of information from those three NSF reports and the NAEP data was begun by twenty-three science educators throughout the U.S. The synthesis researchers worked independently in small teams, each focusing on one aspect of science education: elementary science, biology, physical science, science/technology/society, or inquiry. A critical part of the synthesis analysis was developing a description of an ideal or desired state for a focus area and then comparing the actual to the desired …
History Of Science Crossword Puzzle Answers
History Of Science Crossword Puzzle Answers
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
No abstract provided.
Students' Views Of Science Teachers, Classes, And Course Content, Robert E. Yager, Ronald J. Bonnstetter
Students' Views Of Science Teachers, Classes, And Course Content, Robert E. Yager, Ronald J. Bonnstetter
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The Third Assessment of Science, part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), provided needed views concerning successes and failures of school programs (Holmes & Wright, 1980; National Assessment, Note 1). For the first time, the 1977 assessment of science included an extensive battery of items dealing with the affective domain. Present plans include abandoning future assessments in science that would permit a longitudinal study of such outcomes of science instruction. This unfortunate situation prompted the authors to replicate the study with Iowa samples five years later.
Average Heat Of Combustion And Available Energy Of Carbohydrate, Fat And Protein, H. I. Feinstein
Average Heat Of Combustion And Available Energy Of Carbohydrate, Fat And Protein, H. I. Feinstein
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The food energy of carbohydrate, fat and protein recorded in many nutrition tables is the net available energy. It is equal to 16.7, 37.7, and 16.7 kilojoules per gram respectively. These are not the same as the heat of combustion determined calorimetrically.
Science Notes - National Earth Science Teachers Association Founded
Science Notes - National Earth Science Teachers Association Founded
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Amidst much enthusiasm and strong volunteer support (at 8 a. m. on Saturday morning at NSTA in Dallas), NESTA (National Earth Science Teachers Association) was organized.
Science Notes - Iowa Mathematics, Science Teachers To Receive For Presidential Awards
Science Notes - Iowa Mathematics, Science Teachers To Receive For Presidential Awards
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Roger D. Fuerstenberg and Karen Murphy have been selected to represent the state in a national awards program that recognizes outstanding mathematics and science teachers.
Science Notes - The House Mouse
Science Notes - The House Mouse
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
For more than 10,000 years, house mice have been a part of man's immediate environment. From the grain producing area of Northern Asia, they have spread all over the world.
Science Notes - Outlook Is Underway!
Science Notes - Outlook Is Underway!
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The first Outlook class of Iowa educators began course work on Monday, June 5, 1983. A total of 320 educators from all parts of the state were enrolled in the eight week-long, in-service training programs. Seven of the week-long sessions were at the Springbrook Conservation Education Center north of Guthrie Center and one week was scheduled for the campus at the University of Northern Iowa at Cedar Falls.
Science Notes - Iowa Wildlife In Art Annual Exhibition And Sale
Science Notes - Iowa Wildlife In Art Annual Exhibition And Sale
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Iowa's first major wildlife art show will be March 30, 31, April 1, 1984. There will be three main features of the show.
Science Notes - Guinea Pigs
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Guinea pigs (cavies) have excellent disposition. They are gentle and rarely bite. Several varieties make good classroom animals. The English (or Bolivian) type has short hair. The Abyssinian type has a short rough coat. The Peruvian guinea pig has shaggy hair which requires brushing each day.
Editorial Staff & Boards; Officers, Iowa Academy Of Science; Officers & Regional Directors, Iowa Science Teachers Section
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
No abstract provided.