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Starting A Science Center?

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Starting a Science Center? is a 34-page booklet prepared for the Association of Science-Technology Centers by Victor J. Danilov, director of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

Content Analysis And Categorization Of Violence In Young Adult Novels, Janice Burriss Reelitz

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this paper was to develop a means of identifying and categorizing violence in young adult novels. The professional literature reviewed helped to determine a working definition of violence and also provided insights for the researcher on how violence is categorized in the various medias by educators and socialogists. The identification and categorization of violence was applied to ten selected novels to form the basis for this research. The researcher selected five experts in the field of young adult literature who were interviewed and asked to submit ten or more titles of novels that they knew young adults …

Annual Report Of The Iowa Academy Of Science 1977-78, Robert W. Hanson

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The completion of the 100-year history of the Academy in the fall of 1974 led to the current practice of writing a running history on a year-to-year basis, in the form of the Annual Report. The Board of Directors decided in the fall of 197 5 to publish the Annual Report in the PROCEEDINGS. Recent committee reports and Board minutes, from which most of this report derives, are on file in the Academy office. Records older than 1975 are in the Special Collections section of the Iowa State University Library, constituting the official archives of the Academy.

Editorial Board

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

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Structure And Characterization In Popular Adolescent Fiction, Marcia Fox

Graduate Research Papers

For this study the author identified two criteria to be examined in junior novels. These criteria originally came from Stephen Dunning's five categories which he suggested as representative criteria against which the literary quality of the junior novel could be measured. The two categories chosen were structure and characterization in the novel. Each aspect of these two categories was defined and then applied to twenty-one junior novels that were fiction. The twenty-one novels examined were chosen from G. Robert Carlsen's list of popular books depicting adolescent concerns in the 1977 and 1978 English Journal. Each book was then measured numerically …

Editorial Board

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

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Index For Volume 85

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

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Teaching Both Brains, Roy Unruh

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

In the advanced vertebrates, including man, the two large hemispheres of the cerebrum of the brain serve as centers of perception, of voluntary motion, and of the higher mental faculties such as thought and memory. The two hemispheres are connected by several bands of nerve tissue the major tissue being the corpus callosum. The two hemispheres control the motor and sensory responses of the opposite sides of the body. Some hemispheric differences in function were reported as early as 1861 when Dr. Paul Broca observed that patients with lesions on their left cerebral hemispheres were more likely to suffer loss …

On Visual Art And Camouflage, Roy R. Behrens

Faculty Work

In a number of books on visual fine art and design [1, 2], there is mention of the kinship between camouflage and painting, but no one has, to my knowledge, pursued it. I have intermittently researched this relationship for several years, and my initial observations have recently been published [3]. Now I have been awarded a faculty research grant from the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to pursue this subject in depth. I am, therefore, collecting documents and personal accounts pertaining to historical and theoretical connections of the kind that are listed below.

How Do I Get There From Here? Attitudes Toward Different Modes Of Transportation, Molaan K. Mosell, Connie M. Lamka, Morris J. Gray, Irwin P. Levin

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The acceptance of multiple-occupant modes of transportation such as buses and carpools is an important factor in energy conservation. Two experiments are reported which show how attitudes toward different modes of transportation are influenced by interpersonal factors. Experiment 1 showed that individuals perceive differences in the characteristics of people who use different modes and that these differences are related to their own transportation preferences. Experiment 2 showed that the sex of each potential rider and whether or not each rider is an acquaintance of the respondent are important factors in carpooling. The implications of such results to policy makers are …

Editorial Board

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

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Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

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Survey Of Iowa Teacher Preparation Programs In Speech Communication, Douglas M. Trank

Iowa Journal of Communication

Institutions and individuals involved in the preparation of speech and drama teachers in Iowa currently face a number of critical issues. The Speech Communication Association, in consultation with the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education programs, has prepared a detailed set of guidelines for undergraduate and graduate speech and drama education programs. These guide-lines will be used to evaluate college and university teacher education programs that wish to obtain or maintain N.C.A.T.E. approval in the future. Eighteen Iowa institutions currently hold N.C.A.T.E. endorsement in secondary speech education.

A Survey Of The Selection Procedures And Practices Used In The Employment Of Superintendents In Iowa Public Schools, Joseph Hrecz

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of the study was to determine the selection practices used in the employment of public school superintendents in the State of Iowa. The study was centered on how closely and how extensively Iowa public school boards followed recommended selection procedures.

The method used was a survey instrument mailed to the president of the board of directors of the sixty-five Iowa public schools in which a vacancy for the superintendency occured during 1977. Forty-five replies were received for a response of 69.2 percent. Data was tabulated according to school enrollment and for all schools.

The prominent findings were (1) …

A Survey Of Selected Iowa Colleges And Universities And Their Elementary Teacher Education Programs For Ige Training Of Preservice Teachers, Leotis D. Swopes

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of the study was to survey the Elementary Teacher Education Programs (ETEPs) of Iowa's three public institutions of higher learning and Iowa's three largest non-public institutions of higher learning. Using a questionnaire and interview method, the survey was to answer two questions: 1. Do (ETEPs) at Iowa's six sample institutions of higher learning prepare preservice teachers through an IGE Teacher Education Program for IGE elementary schools in the state? 2. Do ETEPs of Iowa's six sample institutions of higher learning prepare preservice teachers for IGE elementary school programs in the state?

A 10-item questionnaire with subdivisions was used …

Language Concept Development In Differentially Educated Deaf Children: The Aural/Oral Versus A Simultaneous Approach, Sheril L. Doughman

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The present study was designed to compare the understanding of the fifty items on the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts (Boehm, 1971) in three groups of eight children ranging in age from 5-3 to 11-6 years. One group consisted of deaf children who were primarily educated in the aural/oral method (AOM). This approach is said to utilize residual hearing, amplification, speech, and speechreading while signing is discouraged or forbidden. The second group consisted of deaf children who were taught in a simultaneous method approach (SM). Natural gestures, fingerspelling, facial expression, body language, and a signed language system in conjunction with …

An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Seriation And Classification Skills In Young Children, R'Delle Marie Anderson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The results of the Benziger Early Learning Assessment (BELA) classification and seriation subtests previously administered to 359 white, primarily middle-class preschool and primary grade school children were analyzed to determine the degree of relationship, interaction and parallelism between these two cognitive skills across age groups of children. In addition, the existence of any sex differences in performance was examined. The 359 children were grouped into three successive age groups at six-month intervals beginning with the age of four years and six months.

Results indicated that the relationship between seriation and classification, as measured by the BELA, was positive and quite …

The Precision Of Teacher Judgments In The Identification Of Gifted Children, Ann Louise Neumann

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to determine some of the factors leading to the variability of teacher judgments in the identification of intellectually gifted elementary school children.

Subjects: The study was conducted with 14 female teachers having a total of 317 students in their classes. The schools were located in a small urban center in an agricultural region of northeastern Iowa.

Procedure: Teachers were asked to rate the children in their classes as to whether they should be classified as intellectually gifted. The research criterion used was a percentile score of 98 or higher on the Comprehensive Test of …

Sculptural Constructions In Fabric, Judith Keipp Johnson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The title of this artist's thesis exhibition was "Fibre Works," but this abstract title is more appropriately "Sculptural Constructions in Fabric. It has been her experience that "fibres" is often associated . . with the weaving process and it is important to note that she works with fabrics--the end product of weaving. The artist's objectives are three-fold: 1) to take advantage of various fabric properties and utilize those qualities in a three-dimensional form, 2) to show clothing influence in the constructions, and 3) to suggest how particular clothing pieces might reflect broader restrictions in people and their environments. Of paramount …

Consumer Science: A Viewpoint, Donald J. Schmidt

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

As a member of the Iowa Academy of Science and a former Iowa teacher, I know that science teachers in Iowa are constantly striving to make their classes more interesting and meaningful to students. I would like to share with you some ideas generated by a group of twenty-three secondary school science teachers at Fitchburg State College in a summer workshop dealing with consumer science education.

Science And Mainstreaming The Educable Mentally Retarded Students, Muhammad Hanif

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The concept of mainstreaming rein forces the belief that all children are capable of learning if education is individualized and attention is given to learning styles, rates of learning, and individual capabilities. It is now widely accepted that children with mild learning impairments should no longer remain segregated and confined to separate classroom situations during their entire day in school. Effective mainstreaming addresses the academic and social needs of all youngsters and functions in the least restrictive environment. The basic assumption that the large majority of handicapped children can be absorbed into regular classrooms with adjustments and adaptations in the …

Human Physiology And Anatomy: For All Students At The Same Time, Irene M. Edgar

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

How should a specialized science course in high school be taught? Should it be treated as a career education course or as a general survey course? Should it follow traditional methods or should it be individualized? These questions were explored in teaching a two semester course in Human Physiology and Anatomy at Dubuque Senior High School. This course attracts students who plan a post-high school career in health oriented fields, as well as students interested in additional exploratory study that goes beyond general biology. In addition, others enroll for needed science credits. As a result, the course must service a …

Plant Hemoglobin

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Plants die so that man might eat. Now they're also bleeding so that scientists might understand how hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying molecule in human blood, is made.

The Metric "Indy", Janice Brandt, Daniel Yates

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The following is a game designed to provide practice with basic metric units of linear measurement. Students turn up cards to advance their "race cars" along a centimeter track. The race cars can be made of white cuisenaire rods, centicubes or similar objects. This game is suitable for grades 3-8.

When You've Reached The Last Straw

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Flatten one end of a drinking straw. With scissors, trim the flattened end into the shape shown in Figure 1. Put the flattened, trimmed end into your mouth and blow hard. With a few tries you should become proficient in producing a loud squawk.

New Scientist

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

New Scientist is an interesting magazine concerning new discoveries in science having large social, environmental and technological impact written in a popular style.

Achievement Motivation And Achievement: The Role Of Locus Of Control, Marilyn Preston, R. Michael Latta

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The status of locus of control as a moderator of the relation of resultant achievement motivation to achievement was investigated for a sample of females. Locus of control was found to moderate resultant achievement motivation in predicting academic achievement for females. The conclusions to be drawn from these data are not clear since the sample of females was predominantly internal in beliefs about the control of reinforcement. The implications of the definition of internality/externality for future research on this question are discussed.

A Study Of In-School Suspension Programs In Area 7 Of Iowa, Stephen Darryl Glass

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Suspension has increasingly become one of the foremost problems confronting educational administrators in American public schools. The controversy over the advantages and disadvantages of out-of-school suspension has been on stage in the current educational scene. This conflict has evoked public skepticism and some intervention on the part of courts.

Educators have begun to develop in-school suspension programs as an alternative to out-of-school suspension. The major objective of in-school suspension is to have suspended students remain in the educational setting. This change in practice enables the school and community resources to be more readily used in remediating and facilitating the improvement …

Counselor Perception Of The Need And Role Of Guidance Consultants In Iowa’S Area Education Agencies, Lauren Simonson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

While Area Education Agencies (AEA's) have hired consultants in many curriculum areas, few guidance consultants have, at the time of this study, been hired.

The research of literature showed that counselors, at all stages of their career, have need of consultative help. Much of this need arose from an environment in which counselors work. They needed help in reaching their potential. Guidance consultants were seen as a help in reaching this potential.

A survey of Iowa school counselors was made to determine present need and role of guidance consultants. Data was received from one-hundred sixty-four counselors (78 percent of the …