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Comment: Remember The Humanity In Science Instruction, James J. Hungerford

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

There go the "alphabet sciences" and here come the "pace sciences." PACE, Personalized Adventures in Chemistry Education; PABE, Personalized Adventures in Biological Education; PAPE, Personalized Adventures in Physics Education; PAESE, Personalized Adventures in Earth Science Education.

Open Letter From The President, Kenneth E. Frazier

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Regional Directors for the 1973-74 school year have been appointed and are listed on the inside front cover for your convenience. Please contact them about programs they will offer during the coming months.

Call For Participation In The 1974 Ssma National Convention

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Information about the School Science and Mathematics Association 1974 convention.

Ists Meeting, Don E. Murphy

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The 86th session of the Iowa Academy of Science will take place at Upper Iowa College, Fayette, on April 19-20, 1974.

Candidates For Nsta Office

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

One of our neighbors, Darrell Goar, has been nominated for president of NSTA.

To Dye Or Not To Dye, A. C. Haman

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

In the beginning there was water and rock, but as plant life evolved, the globe became more colorful. Cool greens gradually enveloped the earth as successive waves of mosses, ferns, conifers and angiosperms conquered the land. In addition new pigments evolved providing artistic man with new mood-creating dyes with which to color his existence. Primitive man utilized dyes to color his skin to frighten his enemies and increase his prestige. Greek ladies, dissatisfied with the color of their hair, used buckthorn, Rhamnus, to stain their hair yellow and add to their charms. European aristocrats of the Middle Ages, traveling …

An Experimental Study Of The "Doctor Fox Effect", John E. Ware, Reed G. Williams

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Colleges and universities are employing student evaluations of faculty with increasing frequency. On some campuses, the forms are used at the instructor's option and serve primarily as a source of feedback for faculty development purposes. Others require student evaluation of instruction and publish the results in academic "consumer's guides." Still others consider student evaluations of instruction in making decisions with regard to faculty salary increases, retention, tenure and promotion. The optional use of student ratings in order to improve instruction often evolves to the mandatory consideration of student rating data in making decisions about faculty retention, promotion and tenure. As …

Publications

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Short comments regarding the publications:

The World of Carnivorous Plants by James and Patricia Pietropaolo.

The Language of Science by Alan Mandell, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

Selected Outcomes Of A Summer Institute For High School Biology Teachers, Melton E. Golmon

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The 1972 University of Iowa Summer Institute for High School Biology Teachers was designed to assist participants in implementing the course, Biological Science: Molecules to Man (Blue Version), developed by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS). The program consisted of eight weeks of classroom instruction and was supported by the National Science Foundation. Instruction was planned to provide the participants with an opportunity to improve their competence in biological subject matter and to become acquainted with teaching strategies inherent in materials produced by BSCS. In order to accomplish these objectives, participants were enrolled in three related courses.

National Science Teachers Association

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

NSTA headquarters and staff recently moved out of the NEA Building into their own home at Connecticut Avenue and S Street NW. The Georgian-style building is conveniently located downtown where public transportation is available, and parking facilities are nearby. The spacious mansion has a large conference room suitable for committee meetings. Owning its own headquarters symbolizes NSTA's ability to build an identity as an independent organization and its hope to intensify the feeling of active membership on the part of science teachers.