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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.

News And Notes

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A listing of upcoming science-related meetings and conferences.

Cover - Ias & Ists Officers, Directors And Chairpersons - Ist Journal Information - Table Of Contents

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

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This Is What I Am!!, Milbert H. Krohn

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Getting to know science teachers about the state is somewhat of a problem for the teacher in smaller Iowa high schools. I suspect that this is a problem of communication rather than one of design by those of us in the less urban areas. When it was suggested that the Iowa Science Teachers' Journal be an avenue for establishing contact I was at first reticent about telling of myself.

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Iowa Science Teachers Journal

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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.

An Open Letter From The Chairman Of The Science Teaching Section Of The Iowa Academy, Warren Classon

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

When was the last time you took advantage of the opportunity to exchange ideas relative to science instruction and emerging and changing science programs with fellow teachers?

Full Capability And Automatic-Program Planetariums Offered To Schools For The First Time

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Planetariums Unlimited, a subsidiary of Viewlex, Inc., is now offering the first complete series of school planetarium instruments.

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.

A Brief History Of Scholarly Publishing, Donald D. Jackson

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A humorous, tongue-in-cheek time-line of the history of scholarly publishing.

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.

Open Letter From The Ists President, Richard L. Sweeney

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The Iowa Science Teachers Section of the Iowa Academy is growing and is becoming very active in the Science teaching of Iowa. I would like to take this opportunity to thank those who in the past have made the Science Teachers Section an organization in which a science teacher can become active in local, district, and state meetings.

An Analogy Between The Cell And A Factory: A Teaching Technique, Paul A. Christiansen

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Often in a study of the cell and its cellular processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, assimilation, and growth, biology students find it difficult to acquire an adequate idea of how these living processes interact. Synthesis of these separate processes into an organized whole is even more difficult to comprehend. This paper describes an analogy between a factory and the cell that has been found effective as a classroom discussion technique to more clearly illustrate what the cell must do to maintain itself and to divide.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

Call For Papers For Spring Meeting

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Titles for contributed papers should be in the hands of all section chairmen soon.

The Ias Bulletin, V2n1, January 1968, Iowa Academy Of Science

IAS Bulletin

In this issue:

--- Spring Meeting Plans Progressing
--- General Instructions for Program Participants
--- 1965 Proceedings Distributed; 1966 and 1967 on the Way
--- Authors Please Note
--- ISTS Regional Meetings Planned
--- Call for Nominations for Outstanding Teacher Awards
--- Third Articulation Conference Planned
--- Section Interests of the Academy Members
--- Academy Representatives Attend AAAS Meeting in New York
--- Message from the Executive Secretary to all Members

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.

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.

A Dna Extract From Grocericus Storeii, Roger Volker

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A simple, but accurate DNA model can be constructed by students, working in groups of two, from common grocery store materials.

Letter To The Editor, William W. Berg

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

I feel moved to call to your attention an item from Mr. Jackson's article in the February issue of The Iowa Science Teachers' Journal, "A Method of Teaching Evolution in High School." Though it is not the major area of the article's discussion, the author's treatment of the Earth's origin irritated me.

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.

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Iowa Science Teachers Journal

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