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Textbooks On General Science

Science Bulletin

Many requests have come to us for information concerning elementary and high school science textbooks. The kind most often mentioned have been those on general science. We are therefore printing below a list of such books, with a brief statement of content in each case.

The Effects Of Weight Cutting, H. Earl Rath

Science Bulletin

During the last decade, wrestling has increased rapidly as a high school as well as a college sport. About this time of year in those high schools where wrestling is listed as an interclass or interschool sport, the coach is anxiously looking over the material available and trying to mentally arrange them into groups according to the classes in which they will have to compete.

Question Box, R. W. Getchell, Roy L. Abbott, L. Begeman

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Will you give suggestions how to organize and conduct a science club?

How may a habitat for frogs, snakes, etc. be made?

What is a Planetarium? Will you describe one?

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A Service Bulletin for Teachers of High School Science.

Carbon Dioxide: Experiments For General Science, O. B. Read

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It is quite generally thought that an elaborate equipment of test tubes, flasks, beakers, dishes and desks are needed for any experiment involving chemistry. There are, however, many simple and instructive experiments that may be tried with only common household apparatus.

About Static Electricity, L. Begeman

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Static charges of electricity occur in two forms, viz.: positive charges and negative charges. We now know that a negative charge consists of an aggregate of small particles called electrons and that a positive charge consists of an aggregate of small particles called protons. These electrons and protons may with equal correctness be considered particles of matter or particles of energy.

Editor And Advisory Board

Science Bulletin

A Service Bulletin for Teachers of High School Science.

The Physiology Of Physical Condition, H. Earl Rath

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Some men willfully break training rules because they think more of their own personal pleasure than they do of the success of the team or their own success as athletes. The treatment, if any, for this sort of individual must be mental. Many boys fail to observe training rules because they do not know what good physical condition is, or because they do not see the necessity of doing certain things in order to obtain it. It is for this latter group that this article is written, with the hope that it will make easier the grind of training by …

The Questionnaire

Science Bulletin

The request for suggestions which was sent out with the September number of the Bulletin brought a flood of unexpected magnitude. The editor was quite inundated, and even now has only partially emerged. But it was a welcome flood, which showed clearly what the science teachers of Iowa wish in such a bulletin-wish individually. Collectively they are not in all respects agreed.

Environment As A Factor In The Growth And Distribution Of Plants, O. R. Clark

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The form and appearance of plants and the activities which they carry on are due in large part to the inherited characteristics of their ancestors. The influence which heredity exerts should be clearly and forcefully presented to students. At the same time the expression of the hereditary traits may be greatly modified by the conditions under which! the plants grow.

Science Bulletin, Vol.3 No.2, October 1930 [Complete Issue]

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A Service Bulletin for Teachers of High School Science.

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Science Bulletin

A Service Bulletin for Teachers of High School Science.

Instinct Or Intelligence In The Great Golden Digger, Roy L. Abbott

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''To know everything and to know nothing according as it acts under normal or exceptional conditions: that is the strange antithesis presented by the insect race.” So said that profound student of insects, Fabre, after an immense amount of experimentation.

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A Service Bulletin for Teachers of High School Science.

Question Box, R. W. Getchell, E. J. Cable, O. B. Read, W. H. Kadesch

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How can breakage fees be best handled in connection with the high school laboratory sciences?

Will you describe the method followed by the weather bureau in weather forecasting?

When you blow burns the better. or fan a camp fire it When you blow a candle it goes out. What is the reason for the difference?

Should static electricity be continued as a part of the high school physics course?

Outline For Elementary Physics, L. Begeman

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In the September number of the Science Bulletin will be found the outlines for the subjects of Mechanics and Heat. We submit in this number the remaining outlines of the principal subjects that should be presented in a high school course in Physics.

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A Service Bulletin for Teachers of High School Science.

Science Bulletin, Vol.3 No.1, September 1930 [Complete Issue]

Science Bulletin

A Service Bulletin for Teachers of High School Science.

The Romance Of The Great Golden Digger, Roy L. Abbott

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Every year for the last fifteen years (and perhaps for much longer) a number of digger wasps have made their nests in the hard-packed sanely soil between Professor Fullerton's room and the heating plant on the campus of the Iowa State Teachers College.

Outline For Elementary Physics, L. Begeman

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The outline below is submitted with the hope that it may be helpful particularly to the teacher of physics in the smaller high schools. The outline is arranged in the form of group projects and in the order which the writer thinks is best for good teaching results. The apparatus listed can be purchased in one form or another from such supply houses as the Central Scientific Co. or the Welch Apparatus Co. of Chicago, Ill.

Question Box

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Questions submitted before the end of the month will be answered in the next number of the Bulletin.

General Science: Astronomy, E. J. Cable

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General science is, as the name suggests, a study of the practical applications of the physical and natural sciences. To be a good teacher of the subject one should have a working understanding of the fundamental principles of physics, chemistry, biology, physiography, astronomy and climatology. General science, when taught as such in the grades or junior high school, should aid boys and girls to interpret, in an intelligent and meaningful way, the application of these principles to everyday life.

Natural Science: Seed Corn, Winfield Scott

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Again we come to the annual problem of seed corn and show corn. In the first place good seed corn is important to all of us because missing hills and barren stalks mean wasted labor, wasted time, and wasted land. Since human labor and time are our most valuable assets why waste them through useless endeavor by planting corn which will not grow nor yield?

We, The Jury, R. W. Getchell

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Iowa high schools may justly be proud of their chemistry courses and of their chemistry teachers. The state ranks low in the number of schools offering this science but high in the quality of its teaching staff. One sure criterion of instructional efficiency is growth - a growth based upon the frank recognition of mistakes and intelligent effort to correct them.

Editor And Advisory Board

Science Bulletin

A Service Bulletin for Teachers of High School Science.

Planning The Year's Work

Science Bulletin

One of the important things for the science teacher to do at this season is to lay definite plans for the work of the semester or year. One way to do this is to entrust everything to the text book.

Insects And Man, Roy L. Abbott

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Because of their relationship to dangerous human parasites, insects have been responsible for the death of more people than all other animals put together. Confirmation of this astounding statement can be seen in the close relationship between houseflies and typhoid fever, between rat fleas and plague, tsetse flies and sleeping sickness, and that between mosquitoes and yellow fever and malaria.

Care Of Laboratory Equipment, Harold E. Murphy

Science Bulletin

"We have good equipment, but no place to keep it arranged in order so that we have quick access to it." The above statement describes the condition under which some high school departments operate. A condition of this kind places extra work upon the teacher and uses valuable time that is needed in class room instruction.

The Conservation Of Wild Flowers, O. R. Clark

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On almost any warm spring day when the first woodland flowers have made their appearance, it is a very common sight to see parties of children, and many older people as well, scouring the woods in search of wild flowers.

Joseph Henry, W. H. Kadesch

Science Bulletin

Have you ever asked your pupils the question, what American has contributed most to the development of electrical science? Very likely a great majority would answer without hesitation, Edison, the inventor of the incandescent light. Some might answer, Bell, the inventor of the telephone. A few, the radio fans, might say De Forest, the inventor of the three electrode tube. An occasional one might even answer Franklin, the first great American scientist, who drew electricity from the clouds, and showed that lightning and the "electric fluid" are the same. Not one, I am sure, would ever mention Joseph Henry.