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The Ias Bulletin, V6n2, March 1972, Iowa Academy Of Science

IAS Bulletin

In this issue:

--- Officers, Directors, and Section Chairmen, 1971-72
--- 84th Session Program Complete
--- Proceedings Will Not Be Forwarded
--- Third Issue of Quarterly Proceedings Ready in April
--- Note from an "Oldtimer"
--- AAAS Research Grant Funds Available
--- To Count Our Blessings
--- AAAS Board Adopts New Statement of Goals
--- Status of AAAS Governance Changes
--- Registration Form
--- Invitation from the Midwest Benthological Society
--- ISU Announces Sigma XI and Bessey Lectures
--- Call for Papers
--- Membership Facts

The Alumnus, V57n1, February 1972, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

The Alumnus

Inside This Issue:

-- Dutch Elm Disease
-- Jepson and McDonald
-- Price Laboratory School
-- Reunion
-- Annual Foundation Report
-- Hillside Courts
-- Sports
-- News Notes

Did You Know About Our Activity?, Milbert Krohn

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The Iowa Science Teachers is sponsoring the following activities for science teachers of Iowa.

Information Needed, Milbert Krohn

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

One of the current fads spreading through the schools of Iowa is the attention being given to mysticism. The science teacher can do a great deal to give the youth of our schools the proper attitude to deal with the technics of the occult. One of the sessions of the Science Teaching Section of the spring meeting of the Iowa Academy will be related to dealing with the problems of the occult.

Metric Maxims

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A list of familiar maxims substituted with metric units.

Nsta To Interpret Naep Science Findings - A First

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The first in-depth interpretation of National Assessment findings is being carried out by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). A representative study team of scientists and science educators will attempt to answer the question: “NAEP findings in Science: what do they mean?”

In-Service Institute In Environmental Science At Uni

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A course entitled "Environmental Applications of Physics" will be offered at the University of Northern Iowa during the 1973 spring semester under a grant from the National Science Foundation.

A New Approach To The Training Of Chemistry / Physics Teachers, Kenneth E. Borst

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

In 1950, during my first week as a junior high school science teacher, it became apparent to me that my training to become such a teacher was almost a complete waste of time. I have also observed that there has been very little effort on the part of colleges to change the situation.

Journal Articles Welcomed

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Iowa science teachers are requested to submit teaching tips, notices of events, or anything that would be of interest to other science educators.

Continued N.S.F. Support For Summer Institute At The University Of Iowa

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Word has been received from the National Science Foundation that the Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Summer Institute has been funded for another year.

Project Assist: A Status Report, Robert E. Yager

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Project ASSIST (Alternatives for Schools of the Seventies for Improvement of Science Teaching) is a concept for statewide improvement of science education in Iowa. Science is broadly conceived to include mathematics, physical sciences, biological sciences, behavioral sciences, and social sciences. Cooperation among the various agencies and persons involved with education is central to the Project ASSIST concept.

The American Museum Of Natural History Release: Mummy X-Rays Give Medical Histories Of Egyptian Pharaohs

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

By X-raying mummies, a professor of dentistry at the University of Michigan and an egyptologist from the Metropolitan Museum of Art have discovered that the royal rulers of ancient Egypt were prone to many of the same diseases and afflictions that plague modern man.

Given: The Chance, Claire Marie Patik

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

This paper presents some practical suggestions for motivating the "educationally uninvolved" student on the one hand, and challenging the intellectually gifted student on the other. Teacher-planned, but student-oriented and directed, three courses geared to the pace of the individual student, are described. The net result of two of these courses as approached the past two years, is a reason- able degree of success leading to a strong acceptance on the part of the author of the basic philosophy of "Schools Without Failure.“ The third is a new plan to be introduced in the author's school in the fall of 1971.

National Science Foundation News: Nsf Expands Studies Of National Science Computer Network

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A National Science Computer Network that would link scientists, engineers, and educators at both small colleges and major universities, non-profit organizations, government, and in industry, with advanced computer resources is being studied by the National Science Foundation.

National Science Foundation News: Nsf Established R&D Incentives, Assessment Offices; Smith And Lederman Appointed Directors

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Dr. H. Guyford Stever, Director of the National Science Foundation, today helped implement President's Nixon's call for new actions and relationships to enhance research and development in the United States by establishing the Office of Experimental R&D Incentives and the National R&D Assessment Program Office.

University Of Wisconsin News

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Scientists tend to be cold, unemotional people. They cannot appreciate the beauty of nature, and scientific truths once established never change--true or false? These are a few of the popular stereotypes a recent University of Wisconsin-Madison survey tested.

Open Letter To Science Teachers: Iowa Science, Engineering And Humanities Symposium, Ronald D. Townsend

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Early in the 1971-72 academic year, letters describing the tenth annual Iowa Science, Engineering and Humanities Symposium were sent to all high school science teachers in Iowa. Letters were also sent to schools in western Illinois that had participated in symposia in previous years. The letters delineated symposium activities such as: (1) renowned speakers presenting recent and future interactions between science and society; (2) visits to university research laboratories; ( 3) student papers on their own research projects; (4) personal interviews with professors to discuss future research and careers; (5) concurrent sessions with leading scientists presenting their present research endeavors; …

Secondary Science Training Programs - Enrichment For The High School Student (1972), Edward L. Pizzini

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Success was evident with the experimental 1971 SSTP at The University of Iowa. Eighty high-ability high school students, hailing from California to New York, participated in the programs at the Science Education Center.

Teachers Group Calls For Scientific Literacy

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The nation's science teachers are proclaiming scientific literacy as the goal of their efforts for the 1970s. If they achieve this goal, the schools will be turning out people who are comfortable in science, understand its limitations and possibilities, can use it skillfully and intelligently, and who will continue its development.

Entropy, The Universe And Man, Peter H. Sweedy

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

"You can't unscramble an egg." This phrase and many others throughout literature are examples of what physicists have come to call entropy. The concept of entropy is unique because, unlike the conservation of momentum and the conservation of energy, there is no principle of conservation of entropy.

Students For Environmental Awareness (S.E.A.): A New Concept, Charles Frederick

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

We live in a world which consists of many different ideas, cultures and institutions. This array of differences, although stimulating, should not be construed as being completely represented in the product, education.

Summary Of A 15-Month Biology Articulation Program Through Drake University, Everett Drevs

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

During the summer of 1970, a five-day workshop was held at Drake to begin our 15-month articulation program. Discussion of textbooks and their merits and identification of lab manuals used was our first consideration. Many sessions were held on the criteria for evaluation of biology programs and facilities, with a rating scale for our use developed after discussions on ideal conditions.

A Not-So-Obvious Solution To The Black Beetle Puzzle

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

True or false: Most desert animals whose life styles keep them out and around during the day are light in color because, as scientists know, light coloration reflects heat and desert animals would naturally evolve in that direction?

A Comparison Of Girls' Achievement In Unisexual And Bisexual Physics Classes, Robert L. Hare

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A battle cry heard for the past few years is, "Why have physics enrollments not increased?" There have been many possible solutions to the problem, and many of them have had some success. For example, the Physical Science Study Committee and Harvard Project Physics have done much in creating interest in physics and thus have helped to increase physics enrollment. Also, the emphasis on laboratory experiences and the increase in audiovisual aids have contributed in making the physics classroom more enticing. It is the writer's opinion that a possible source of physics students might come from those of the female …

How Much Bang For The Buck?: Teaching Computer Systems Faces A Test

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A National Science Foundation release featuring PLATO, for Programmed Logic Applied to Teaching Operations. PLATO is now nearing the end of more than a decade of research and development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Lightning

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Lightning supposedly does not strike twice, but once is too much for the more than 100 humans and thousands of animals that die each year from lightning bolts. University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineer Theodore Bernstein told scientists gathered at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference recently how electricity affects living things.

Group Independent Study: A Unique Approach To Undergraduate Research, James E. Privett

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Briar Cliff College has a program of independent study in the student's major field during the junior and senior years. In the past the program was used for library research projects and independent laboratory projects. In all cases the projects were truly independent, that is, separate projects for different students with no interconnections between projects. The investigator felt that it would be advantageous if all of the senior chemistry majors and some of the junior chemistry majors who felt ready for the experience would work on the same general research project but with each student studying just one aspect of …

Do Birds Have A Built-In Magnetic Direction Finder?

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

How do birds find their way south in the fall? Some may have a built-in magnetic compass to help them find the way. At least there is an upsurge of scientific interest lately in the possibility that birds can orient themselves for their seasonal migrations by using the earth's magnetic field as a navigation aid.

Biological Specialty Teaching Materials

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Teaching materials for biotechnicians will be developed for the American Institute of Biological Sciences Project BIOTECH during 1972-73, with emphasis to be placed on the following topic areas.

Seeking The Meaning Of The Missing Bones

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

What a scientist doesn't find at an archeological dig can be just as important as what he does find, if he can figure out what is missing and why. The search for just such missing evidence and its meaning has set University of New Mexico archeologist Lewis R. Binford roaming Alaska's Brooks Range, interviewing Nunamiut Eskimos and exploring ancient Eskimo dwelling sites there.