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The Ias Bulletin, V2n5, November 1968, Iowa Academy Of Science

IAS Bulletin

In this issue:

--- Board of Directors Meeting at UNI
--- Visiting Scientist Program to be Revived
--- Speakers Bureau Directory to be Developed
--- Third Articulation Conference Passes Resolution
--- Membership and Dues Information
--- Local Arrangements Committees at Work
--- Academy Representatives to Attend AAAS Convention
--- Research Funds Still Available
--- AAPT Selects New Officers
--- ISTS Notes
--- Participation Form
--- Registration for Inclusion
--- IAS Address Changes and Corrections

The Ias Bulletin, V2n4, September 1968, Iowa Academy Of Science

IAS Bulletin

In this issue:

--- New Cover for the Bulletin
--- Corrections and Additions to the Membership List
--- 1969 Meetings Scheduled for Cedar Falls
--- IAS Dues Cover the Calendar Year
--- Proceedings for 1966 Ready
--- Academy Board to Meet
--- Fall Meeting AAPT
--- Our New President
--- Committee to Review the Academy Constitution
--- Collins Radio First Corporate Member
--- Professor Margaret Black Honored
--- Third Articulation Conference Scheduled for October 11 and 12 in Fort Dodge
--- Research Funds Available
--- 1967 Articulation Conference Report from Panel on Relations Between Physics and Mathematics
--- Science Teachers …

The Ias Bulletin, V2n3, May 1968, Iowa Academy Of Science

IAS Bulletin

In this issue:

--- Eightieth Session Held at Wartburg
--- Committee Reports and Membership List
--- AAAS Research Funds Available
--- Third Articulation Conference Scheduled
--- Surplus Volumes of Proceedings Available
--- Walnut Seedlings Donated to Academy Farm
--- Vice-President Rogers off to Venezuela
--- A Note From President Carlander

The Eightieth Session Of The Iowa Academy Of Science And The Thirty-Sixth Convention Of The Iowa Junior Academy Of Science, April 19-20, 1968 [Pamphlet], Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

No abstract provided.

The Eightieth Session Of The Iowa Academy Of Science And The Thirty-Sixth Convention Of The Iowa Junior Academy Of Science, April 19-20, 1968 [Program], Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

No abstract provided.

The Ias Bulletin, V2n2, March 1968, Iowa Academy Of Science

IAS Bulletin

In this issue:

--- Features pf the Eightieth Session
--- Special Reminder to Program Participants
--- Junior Academy's Thirty-Sixth Convention
--- Awards and Recognition
--- Equipment and Book Displays
--- Proceedings Progress and Problems
--- Science Teachers Short Course a Success
--- More Regional ISTS Meetings
--- Reports from Second Articulation Conference Available
--- Motel Information
--- Pre-Registration

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Iowa Science Teachers Journal

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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.

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.

Dates To Remember

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A list of some science-related conventions occurring in 1968-69.

Frontiers In Physical Science, William R. Savage

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

With the fast pace and rapid development of physical science, it is possible for the student to believe that no new problems remain which will require his attention. One may come to the conclusion that no challenging problems remain or that the challenges of today will be solved tomorrow. It is important to regard physical science as a human endeavor with a .future and broad scope. The frontiers exist and are easily described and recognized in all areas.

Flexible-Modular Scheduling With The Slow Learner, Eugene Balk

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

At Mason City High School this year something new has been added in the biology curriculum. It is part of the New Design, better known as Phase II Flex. Approximately 160 sophomores are in the program and are known as low achievers for various reasons. One of the reasons is that they are no longer interested in school. The lack of interest may be due to the traditional school day (fifty-five minutes, six periods a day) or to the fact that the students have never achieved success in anything they have attempted in school.

Casmt Convention A Huge Success

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

During Thanksgiving vacation an Iowa delegation led by Professor Robert Yager, Vice-President and Convention Chairman, and Gerald H. Krockover, Chairman, Junior High Science Section, attended the annual convention of the Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers at the Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel in St. Louis.

Rationale For Sequence Of High School Science Courses: Argument For Change, James M. Moulton

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

In this time of rapidly evolving curricula, it is, I fear, redundant and presumptuous for a professor of biology to comment upon secondary school education. This is particularly so if he lacks experience in the problems of secondary school administration and teaching as does the present author. The problems of adequate preparation and appealing to student interests that one encounters at the college and university levels among relatively highly selected students are magnified many, many times at the high school level.

The Overhead Projector As An Aid To Laboratory Instruction, Larry L. Schenken

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

In many cases the science teacher overlooks the possibility of using the overhead projector during laboratory sessions. Projectors often are covered with dust jackets and shoved into a comer like some unwanted piece of old furniture as soon as a lab activity is started. With a bit of planning these machines may become an integral part of almost any laboratory experience.

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.

Junior Academy News

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

We have a new IJAS constitution and a new central headquarters. All members of an appointed Iowa Junior Academy of Science Constitutional Revision Committee have been very active this summer. Dr. Robert Yager, professor of science education at The University of Iowa, was the busy chairman.

Twenty-Five Years As A Starter?, Warren Classon

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The National Science Teachers Association will celebrate its twenty-fifth birthday early in 1969. Your reaction to this announcement of a Silver Symposium event may be somewhat passive. A twenty-fifth birthday, like any anniversary, really has little meaning unless it includes achievement. A look at something of NSTA's history and activities should determine the significance of the event.

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.

Back Cover

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

No abstract provided.

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Iowa Science Teachers Journal

No abstract provided.

Open Letter To Iowa Science Teachers' Journal, Ken Carlander

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

While this Journal is specifically designed for the Science Teaching Section of the Iowa Academy of Science, it is sent to each member of the Academy and each member is welcome to submit articles or suggestions.

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.

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.

Book Review (Secrets Of The Nucleus, By Joseph S. Levinger)

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Atomic physics reaches the high school level with Secrets of the Nucleus, a Vistas of Science book by Joseph S. Levinger. Dr. Levinger, Professor of Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, taps his years of teaching experience to communicate the excitement of nuclear research, often through simple experiments and calculations that are well within the capability of science students in today's high schools.

Nsta, Nasa Announce Youth Science Congresses

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The National Science Teachers Association and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announce twelve regional Youth Science Congresses to be held throughout the United States during the spring of 1969. This is the fifth year the NSTA-NASA sponsored congresses have been held.

Science Education In The Middle Or Junior High School Grades, Robert H. Carleton

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The following article has been condensed from a review paper which Mr. Carleton prepared as a basis for a seminar which he was invited to lead at the Third Annual International Curriculum Conference in Oxford, England, in September 1967. Mr. Carleton's editorial in this issue of TST was inspired by the program of the Curriculum Conference.

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

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.

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.