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Iowa Science Teachers Journal
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Open Letter From The Executive Secretary, Robert W. Hanson
Open Letter From The Executive Secretary, Robert W. Hanson
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
One year ago this space was occupied by an open letter from then President Martin Grant. Dr. Grant is no longer with us, having succumbed June 28 from multiple myeoloma after a long and painful illness. His contributions to the objectives of the Academy through a lifetime of scholarship will stand as a memorial to a great man.
Science And Math Teaching Awards
Science And Math Teaching Awards
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Nomination forms for the annual Iowa Academy of Science Recognition of Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching Awards are now available.
Dates To Remember
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
A list of some science-related conventions occurring in 1968-69.
Frontiers In Physical Science, William R. Savage
Frontiers In Physical Science, William R. Savage
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
With the fast pace and rapid development of physical science, it is possible for the student to believe that no new problems remain which will require his attention. One may come to the conclusion that no challenging problems remain or that the challenges of today will be solved tomorrow. It is important to regard physical science as a human endeavor with a .future and broad scope. The frontiers exist and are easily described and recognized in all areas.
Flexible-Modular Scheduling With The Slow Learner, Eugene Balk
Flexible-Modular Scheduling With The Slow Learner, Eugene Balk
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
At Mason City High School this year something new has been added in the biology curriculum. It is part of the New Design, better known as Phase II Flex. Approximately 160 sophomores are in the program and are known as low achievers for various reasons. One of the reasons is that they are no longer interested in school. The lack of interest may be due to the traditional school day (fifty-five minutes, six periods a day) or to the fact that the students have never achieved success in anything they have attempted in school.
Casmt Convention A Huge Success
Casmt Convention A Huge Success
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
During Thanksgiving vacation an Iowa delegation led by Professor Robert Yager, Vice-President and Convention Chairman, and Gerald H. Krockover, Chairman, Junior High Science Section, attended the annual convention of the Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers at the Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel in St. Louis.
Rationale For Sequence Of High School Science Courses: Argument For Change, James M. Moulton
Rationale For Sequence Of High School Science Courses: Argument For Change, James M. Moulton
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
In this time of rapidly evolving curricula, it is, I fear, redundant and presumptuous for a professor of biology to comment upon secondary school education. This is particularly so if he lacks experience in the problems of secondary school administration and teaching as does the present author. The problems of adequate preparation and appealing to student interests that one encounters at the college and university levels among relatively highly selected students are magnified many, many times at the high school level.
The Overhead Projector As An Aid To Laboratory Instruction, Larry L. Schenken
The Overhead Projector As An Aid To Laboratory Instruction, Larry L. Schenken
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
In many cases the science teacher overlooks the possibility of using the overhead projector during laboratory sessions. Projectors often are covered with dust jackets and shoved into a comer like some unwanted piece of old furniture as soon as a lab activity is started. With a bit of planning these machines may become an integral part of almost any laboratory experience.
Writing And Evaluating The Laboratory Report, David N. West
Writing And Evaluating The Laboratory Report, David N. West
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
All too often the time-consuming duties of classroom instruction cause laboratory evaluation to take on a minor role. Publishers also have added to this dilemma by burgeoning the market with fill-in-the-blank type laboratory manuals. This paper shows how proper orientation of the student in his laboratory reporting encourages communication skills that include the ability to interpret, analyze, and transmit facts and ideas graphically and in writing. A cognitive approach to the evaluation of these communicative skills may not eliminate paper grading but it will do much toward making it briefer and more productive.
Junior Academy News
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
We have a new IJAS constitution and a new central headquarters. All members of an appointed Iowa Junior Academy of Science Constitutional Revision Committee have been very active this summer. Dr. Robert Yager, professor of science education at The University of Iowa, was the busy chairman.
Twenty-Five Years As A Starter?, Warren Classon
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.
Elementary Science Workshops
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The State Department of Public Instruction and the University of Northern Iowa are cooperatively sponsoring a series of elementary science workshops during the academic year 1968- 1969.
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Iowa Science Teachers Journal
No abstract provided.
Open Letter To Iowa Science Teachers' Journal, Ken Carlander
Open Letter To Iowa Science Teachers' Journal, Ken Carlander
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
While this Journal is specifically designed for the Science Teaching Section of the Iowa Academy of Science, it is sent to each member of the Academy and each member is welcome to submit articles or suggestions.
Implications Of An Elective Sophomore Ecology Course, Lynn W. Glass
Implications Of An Elective Sophomore Ecology Course, Lynn W. Glass
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
What does your high school do to provide for an interesting and enriching experience in science for the average student? Since the beginning of PSSC in 1956 all too many of us have been guilty of neglecting the high school general education science program.
Films
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The following films (From One Cell; Cracking the Code of Life; The Embattled Cell) and materials, especially adaptable for science and biology instructors, are available without charge upon request from the American Cancer Society, Iowa Division, Inc.
Book Review (Secrets Of The Nucleus, By Joseph S. Levinger)
Book Review (Secrets Of The Nucleus, By Joseph S. Levinger)
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Atomic physics reaches the high school level with Secrets of the Nucleus, a Vistas of Science book by Joseph S. Levinger. Dr. Levinger, Professor of Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, taps his years of teaching experience to communicate the excitement of nuclear research, often through simple experiments and calculations that are well within the capability of science students in today's high schools.
Nsta, Nasa Announce Youth Science Congresses
Nsta, Nasa Announce Youth Science Congresses
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The National Science Teachers Association and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announce twelve regional Youth Science Congresses to be held throughout the United States during the spring of 1969. This is the fifth year the NSTA-NASA sponsored congresses have been held.
Science Education In The Middle Or Junior High School Grades, Robert H. Carleton
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.
A Naturalist At Large: Skin-In, Skin-Out, Marston Bates
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
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.
Minutes Of The Meeting Of The Flat Society Of Lower Speight Avenue, O. T. Hayward
Minutes Of The Meeting Of The Flat Society Of Lower Speight Avenue, O. T. Hayward
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
This is a review of an effort-largely experimental-to improve the introductory geology course at Baylor University by involving the student in actual research in the teaching process and in geology. An effort has been made, and will be expanded, to remove most of the artificial restraints imposed by formal lecture-laboratory courses.
Receives Scs Award
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Margaret June Black, retired assistant professor of education at Drake University in Des Moines, has been named an honorary member of the Soil Conservation Society of America.
News And Notes
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
A listing of upcoming science-related meetings and conferences.
The Willard J. Combs Aerospace Award
The Willard J. Combs Aerospace Award
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Established to honor the late Willard J. Combs who was a teacher in the Des Moines Technical High School and President of the Air Age Education Council of Iowa, as it was then called.
Can A Young Man Whose Mind Is On Girls, Booze, Skiing, And High-Class Parties Win The Nobel Prize?, Peter Farb
Can A Young Man Whose Mind Is On Girls, Booze, Skiing, And High-Class Parties Win The Nobel Prize?, Peter Farb
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The Double Helix is a brief story of the structure of the genetic material DNA. As such, it is exceedingly valuable to the historian of science. But another, somewhat irreverent aspect of the book, to be discussed later in this review, makes it an important document for the general reader as well and one that deserves wide reading.
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Iowa Science Teachers Journal
No abstract provided.
This Is What I Am!!, Milbert H. Krohn
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.