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Open Letter From The Editor, Robert E. Yager
Open Letter From The Editor, Robert E. Yager
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
As we prepare copy for Volume 9 of the Iowa Science Teachers' Journal, we are reminded that this volume represents the ninth year for the Journal in its present format and as a publication of the Iowa Academy of Science. Because no appropriation was made by the state legislature during 1971 for support of the Academy, the Journal will be issued only three times during 1971- 72.
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Iowa Science Teachers Journal
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Anatomy: Its Role Today And In The Future, W. K. Metcalf
Anatomy: Its Role Today And In The Future, W. K. Metcalf
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Modern anatomy can be divided into three stages. The first stage, the dawn of modern anatomy, came in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, largely as a result of the work of two men, Leonardo da Vinci and Vesalius.
Scientific Articles And Inquiry In The Biology Classroom, Melton E. Golmon
Scientific Articles And Inquiry In The Biology Classroom, Melton E. Golmon
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Although much emphasis has been placed, in professional journals, science textbooks and teacher training programs, on the inquiry method of teaching, the inquiry teaching concept has achieved only a limited acceptance in secondary schools.
Helping Children Learn Earth-Space Science
Helping Children Learn Earth-Space Science
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
For teachers who are looking for more ideas and background in teaching earth and space science, this new publication should provide just the lift. Helping Children Learn Earth-Space Science is a compilation of outstanding articles which have been brought together from Science and Children, 1963-1971, by William B. Matthews III, Professor of Geology at Lamar State College of Technology, Texas.
Four Important Ecology Lectures On Cassette Tape
Four Important Ecology Lectures On Cassette Tape
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
A series of lectures on ecology - some of the newest thinking in the environmental field - has been taped on cassette by Ecology Focus.
Investigative Methods For The Science Teacher, Bernard D. Hermanson
Investigative Methods For The Science Teacher, Bernard D. Hermanson
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The basis for this research project was the idea: Why tell or lecture students about an idea or fact when, if given the appropriate information, they would be able to figure it out for themselves? This does not mean that we hand the students a text and tell them to learn about the subject on their own, nor is this "investigative" approach to be used all the time. Because of the different levels of reasoning needed for various topics, one cannot expect a student to deduce the composition of an atom as easily as he can deduce the composition of …
Grading Practices: A Current Bibliography
Grading Practices: A Current Bibliography
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Published by the Commission on Undergraduate Education in the June issue of the Biological Sciences News.
Iowa Science Teachers Journal To Be Distributed Only As Requested
Iowa Science Teachers Journal To Be Distributed Only As Requested
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The Board of Directors, acting on the results of a survey of interest in the Journal and recommendations of the Publications Committee, decided to reduce this publication to three issues per year and to distribute it to those in the Academy who indicate interest in the Science Teaching Section.
Count Rumford: Designer Of Clothes, Peter H. Sweedy
Count Rumford: Designer Of Clothes, Peter H. Sweedy
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
When developing a concept in class, I think all teachers realize the importance of taking into account the attention span of their students. One report I read felt that most college students can maintain a good 30-minute attention span, whereas seventh grade students can only average a period of four to five minutes of concentration on a speaker.
Science Teachers Look At Themselves And Their Schools
Science Teachers Look At Themselves And Their Schools
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The National Science Teachers Association is offering science teachers new materials to help them get a better look at their own professional development and at the conditions under which they work.
Nsta Combined Bibliography Ready
Nsta Combined Bibliography Ready
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Teachers, supervisors and administrators will find the new Bibliography of Science Courses of Study and Textbooks for Grades K-12 1970 helpful in planning the school science curriculum.
Revolutionary Chemistry
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
A chemistry course is "telling it like it is" at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Titled Revolutionary Chemistry, the new honors course for non-science majors puts the emphasis on student needs and interests. It is the brainchild of University of Wisconsin chemist, Robert C. West.
Paramecia Affected By Leaf Extracts, M. Bley, B. Frenchick, K. Smith
Paramecia Affected By Leaf Extracts, M. Bley, B. Frenchick, K. Smith
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Leaves and needles from deciduous and coniferous trees play a major role in the formation of soil in their respective forests and thus help to determine the type of life that can successfully live there. Because of the known effects of leaf and needle litter on larger invertebrate life, earthworms, millipedes, etc., it was decided to experiment with infusions of paramecia derived from both leaves and needles to see if they were similarly affected.
Orau To Develop Environmental Science Package For High School Students
Orau To Develop Environmental Science Package For High School Students
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), Oak Ridge, Tennessee, will develop and test a package of environmental measuring devices that high school students will build themselves from basic electronic components and then use to monitor air, water, noise and radiation pollution levels in their home communities.
Action Education: An Educator's Response To A Community's Drug Problem, Gene Balk
Action Education: An Educator's Response To A Community's Drug Problem, Gene Balk
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
In the spring of 1969, the Mason City area was brought face to face with an ever-increasing problem in our society-drugs and narcotics. The community and surrounding area were deeply concerned. How had it happened? When did it start? How many were involved? What age levels were affected? What can we do?
Programs In Environmental Education Readied For Mid-Fall Release
Programs In Environmental Education Readied For Mid-Fall Release
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The latest National Science Teachers Association compilation of going environmental programs held by schools will be available by mid-October. Programs in Environmental Education is an aid to teachers, curriculum planners and others interested in examples of current environmental education programs.
New Publication
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Journal of College Science Teaching is now being published quarterly by the National Science Teachers Association (Volume 1, Number 1, October 1971). The magazine is designed to disseminate the basic and innovative knowledge of science teaching and to promote the application of this knowledge to introductory college science and its function in bringing greater scientific literacy into general education.
A Semiquantitative Method For The Study Of Air Pollutant Mixtures, David J. Kuhn
A Semiquantitative Method For The Study Of Air Pollutant Mixtures, David J. Kuhn
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The envelope of pollution that encompasses a significant portion of our country, particularly the urban areas, is a source of growing national concern. All of us need to increase our understanding of the sources, the components, and the physiological and environmental effects of air pollution.
Two-Billion-Year-Old Algae
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Fossil evidence that blue-green algae much like those that exist today existed as much as two billion years ago has been found on a knoll near Eveleth, Minnesota.
Book Review - Regeneration, James F. Arnesen
Book Review - Regeneration, James F. Arnesen
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
This book, Regeneration, purports to have been written to help bridge the gap in the area of regeneration as a key to the understanding of normal and abnormal growth and development.
Material Available From Environmental Protection Agency
Material Available From Environmental Protection Agency
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The Environmental Protection Agency has available (free) pamphlets on water pollution, radiation, air pollution, solid waste, noise, pesticides and other pollution problems.
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Iowa Science Teachers Journal
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Open Letter To Science Teachers: Are You Ready For The Third Generation?, Gerald H. Krockover
Open Letter To Science Teachers: Are You Ready For The Third Generation?, Gerald H. Krockover
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Conrad E. Ronneberg, professor of chemistry at Dennison University, Granville, Ohio, states in the June issue of Chemical and Engineering News that the first generation of NSF-sponsored texts such as CEA chemistry, CHEM Study chemistry, and PSSC physics, as well as BSCS biology, are totally inadequate and will probably be ignored by the new generation of science teachers.
Science Through Choice, Darrell G. Phillips
Science Through Choice, Darrell G. Phillips
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
The young lady pictured on the front cover of this issue is deeply involved in structuring her own intellect. She is certainly finding out how particular things "work," but, more importantly she is using her own mind to plan next steps, to explore possibilities and to make decisions. Such intense involvement in learning is not at all uncommon, but this particular situation is highly unique-unique because it is taking place in a science classroom in a public school!
Nsf Launches Major Ocean Study
Nsf Launches Major Ocean Study
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Dr. William D. McElroy, Director of the National Science Foundation, announced today the first awards in support of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration. The awards, totaling $3 million, will fund a project to provide information about levels of pollutants and of fission and waste products in the sea, oceanic mixing and the production of organic matter in the oceans.
Waste Water: A Valuable Resource
Waste Water: A Valuable Resource
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Waste water isn't a problem-it's a valuable resource, according to a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee engineer.
Environmental Education In The Environment, Michael J. Naylon
Environmental Education In The Environment, Michael J. Naylon
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Man, the thinking animal, is an observer of events in the universe. He has conceded the obvious truth of his uniqueness on this planet and his religions charge him with its stewardship. However, the very quality which distinguishes him from other life forms has also proven to be his greatest weakness. Perception is a personal experience; its very nature mandates that it be point-centered in the universe. That point is the individual. Collective man is guilty of assuming that the universe "happens" around him. He has not effectively perceived that he is a happening in the universe. He has compounded …
Instant Isotopes For High School Science Courses, William G. Durkin
Instant Isotopes For High School Science Courses, William G. Durkin
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
One of the most recent innovations in science education on the secondary school level has been the production of the MINIGERATOR by Union Carbide.