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Instructional Role Of The Media Specialist, Patricia S. Adams

Graduate Research Papers

A study was made to investigate the number of elementary school media specialists part1e1pat1n.g 1n the instructional program. Additional problems of the study were to further investigate what instructional tasks were performed and what values were assigned to the instructional tasks in a total media program.

A survey instrument was distributed to one hundred fifteen Iowa elementary school media specialists in April, 1975. The instrument was used to assess the following, (1) if the recipient was an elementary media specialist employed full time in one attendance center; (2) if the recipient participated with the teaching staff in planning, designing, implementing, …

A Case Study Of Professional Media Personnel Reductions In The Cedar Rapids Community Schools From 1973-74 And 1977-78, Jacki Steel

Graduate Research Papers

This was a study of professional media personnel staffing and/or reductions that occurred in the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Community School District for the period between 1973-74 and 1977-78. The purpose of the study was to gain insight into changes in enrollment compared to professional media staffing changes and also the effects that staffing changes had on media services. Literature searches were made of both library literature and general education literature to examine procedures and criteria used in media staff reductions, Information about Cedar Rapids Community Schools concerning declining enrollments, school closures, media personnel or position reductions, criteria for staffing and/or …

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 …

History Of The Northwood Public Library, Diana Stehn

Graduate Research Papers

The Northwood Public Library of Northwood, Iowa, was founded on January 29, 1907, with the first meeting of the Northwood Library Association. The library opened to its 109 subscribed members on April 26, 1907. On October 14, 1925, the Northwood Library became the Northwood Public Library. 3tate library officials assisted the Northwood Library's Board of Trustees with the planning for the operations of both the subscription and the public libraries.

Four areas in which research was focused upon during the twenty-one year period (January, 1907- December, 1927) studied included the population served by the library, changes in the geographic location …

The Role Of The School Library Media Specialist As Perceived By School Administration Students And School Library Media Specialist Students At The University Of Northern Iowa, Mary Engelkes

Graduate Research Papers

This research study was an attempt to answer the question: Do school administration students and school library media specialist students enrolled at the University of Northern Iowa possess similar perceptions of the following segments of the role of the school library media specialist: materials specialist, curriculum developer, teacher, technical processor, administrator, participator in extramural activities, and clerical-aide?

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Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

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Morphological And Cytological Relationships Between Stipa Robusta And Stipa Viridula (Gramineae: Stipeae), Margarita A. Mondrus

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Stipa robusta (Vasey) Scribn. and Stipa viridula Trin. have previously been distinguished on the basis of overlapping quantitative characters, which often are inadequate for identification. Recent chromosome counts had not been made for either species. I have distinguished several effective diagnostic characters, including palea length, shape and pubescence, ratio of lemma length to width, ratio of palea length to lemma length, and panicle density. The most reliable character is palea length.

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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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Iowa Journal Of Speech Communication, Volume 10, Number 1, Fall 1978 [Download Entire Issue]

Iowa Journal of Communication

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A Philosophical Approach To The History Of Microbiology, James Slock

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

In a previous article, science and how science operates was discussed from a philosophical point of view. In this article, the history of the Germ Theory of Disease (and hence a large part of the history of microbiology) is discussed from the philosophical perspective presented in the first article. The history presented in this article is not intended to be definitive but rather to view the history of the Germ Theory of Disease from a different perspective.

Resource Survey For Handicapped Students

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A comprehensive survey of resources in the teaching of science to physically handicapped elementary and secondary level students is being undertaken by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Project on the Handicapped in Science.

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 …

Metric Conversions, Linda B. Holm

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

After considering several approaches to the problem of teaching metric conversions, I developed an approach of my own which seems easy for students to work with and understand.

A Burning Question

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

If you burn logs in your fireplace to keep warm in the winter, can you burn antilogs to keep cool in the summer?

New Environmental Education Resource

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Environmental Education Process for Iowa Schools by Bernard Clausen and David McCalley of the University of Northern Iowa has been published recently by the Curriculum Division of the Iowa Department of Public Instruction.

Entry Into Elementary Science Through Live Animals, Stanley L. Weinberg

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Some years ago I did a series of animal behavior film loops for the Ealing Company. The film loops sold well. Their distribution has been taken over by a subsidiary of CBS and they still sell. The series has been a commercial success. But I judge it a pedagogical failure.

Learning To Write Chemical Equations Is Something Else, Robert W. Hanson

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Chemical equations are the stock-in-trade for much of what is expected of students in the first semester of college chemistry. Knowing how to read them, balance them, and interpret them in terms of molar ratios or stoichiometry is one thing; being able to write them from chemical knowledge or from experimental observations is another.

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Iowa Science Teachers Journal

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The Endangered And Uncommon Amphibians And Reptiles Of Iowa - Introduction, James L. Christiansen, Russell R. Burken

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Iowa has 23 amphibian and reptilian species whose known populations or ranges within the state are so small as to justify their inclusion in the state's endangered or threatened list (Roosa, 1977). This paper is intended to inform the Iowa scientific teaching community of the plight of these species and to recruit help in gathering information relative to their distribution. Most of the information presented here has been accumulated by Christiansen and Bailey (manuscripts in preparation or in press) in their work on the amphibians and reptiles of Iowa.

The Endangered And Uncommon Amphibians And Reptiles Of Iowa - Complete Issue, James L. Christiansen, Russell R. Burken

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Iowa has 23 amphibian and reptilian species whose known populations or ranges within the state are so small as to justify their inclusion in the state's endangered or threatened list (Roosa, 1977). This paper is intended to inform the Iowa scientific teaching community of the plight of these species and to recruit help in gathering information relative to their distribution. Most of the information presented here has been accumulated by Christiansen and Bailey (manuscripts in preparation or in press) in their work on the amphibians and reptiles of Iowa.

Further Characteristics Of An Anomalous Temperature Response Of Hypocotyls In Some Soybean Cultivars, Cyrus Samimy, Clifford E. Lamotte

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Some soybean cultivars exhibit a bimodal temperature response. Their hypocotyls elongate normally at 20 and 30 C but are inhibited at 25 C. The inhibition is inducible. It manifests itself, or continues to be manifest, after seedlings are transferred to 20 or 30 C. Sensitivity to 25 C is limited to early seedling development and disappears about 6 days after seeds are supplied with water.

Geology Teaching Aids

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The U.S. Geological Survey has compiled two packets of geology teaching aids.

Float, Sink, Think!, Timothy Cooney

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The following is a typical question asked at the end of physics units dealing with buoyancy: "A barge loaded with scrap iron is in a canal lock. The captain orders his crew to dump all of the scrap iron overboard. What happens to the water level in the lock?" I have asked this type of question to both high school and college physics students. Of course, answers are given which predict an increased, a decreased , or an unchanged water level.

A Quick Camera Obscura

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Take a Pringles potato chip can and a Planters potato chip can. Poke a hole in the bottom of each.

Free Units

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The following units can be obtained free from the U.S. Department of Energy.

A Rationale For One-Year Teacher Internship, Arlie Daniel

Iowa Journal of Communication

The idea of the one-year internship for teacher trainees has been widely discussed for at least a decade. For the most part, however, the actual implementation of such a program has never been brought to fruition. The lack of widespread acceptance and support for this approach to an old, nagging problem has been a disappointment, not only for the advocates of the idea, but also for many of the teacher trainees who have passed through one of the current attempts to educate an undergraduate student to become a proficient elementary or secondary teacher.

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.