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Iowa Science Teachers Journal

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Weather Changes And Crop Yields

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Some scientists, believing that the earth is getting colder, are now predicting the future of world crop production, based on projected temperature changes.

Notes On Science Teaching - 1, Sherman Lundy

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Many teachers seem to operate from a partial teaching model that does not adequately relate the various parts to the whole of science education. The current state of affairs is much like that of the six blind men describing an elephant. Each teacher sees in part and formulates a description of science education from that point of view. As a result, teachers often become torn between subject matter; student needs; teaching techniques; administrative, community, and governmental influences; and other concerns, all tending to fragment the approach to science education.

Scientific Instrumentation: It's Older Than You Think

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If you accidentally walked into the wrong room at a university and found yourself surrounded by balances, glass tubing, Bunsen burners, flasks, beakers and the like, you could safely assume that you had entered a chemistry laboratory. Had the room been filled with timers, force tables, pulleys, oscilloscopes and the like, it might be a physics lab. The tools and instruments a scientist uses betray not only his profession but often his current line of research and the questions he is asking. In the space below a major scientific instrument is described. Read the list slowly and try to identify …

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Iowa Science Teachers Journal

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Science, Schooling, And Society: Toward An Integrated Curriculum, Peter B. Dow

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Those of us who have participated in the curriculum movement over the past decade have seen a profound change in the orientation of curriculum makers during this period. In the wave of science-based curriculum projects that followed the launching of Sputnik in 1957 there was little explicit attention given to the social purposes of instruction. The emphasis in those years was on the transmission of knowledge in the most economical form through the identification of central ideas, and on the invention of pedagogical techniques that supported and reinforced the child's natural curiosity and desire to learn. One of the most …

Length Of Life: A Study In Demography, James J. Hungerford

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Your local cemetery may be an excellent field trip site. For example, I use wooded Timber Creek Cemetery for the following study. Each student collects data from nine different headstones and also plots the location of the same grave markers on a map. The student records the name and sex of the deceased, epitaph and/ or heritage, cause of death if recorded, the condition of the headstone, the kind of rock it is, and anything unique about it.

Do We Misuse Animals In School Science Projects?, John A. Hoyt

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A 17-year-old Iowa girl won a trip to the 1974 International Science and Engineering Fair by grafting skin onto 12 mice in the basement of her home after only talking with a veterinarian. One mouse died, one sloughed off the graft, and the others were killed by the student with an overdose of ether. A 15-year-old Kentucky boy won a trip to the same fair by trapping three squirrels in a park, confining them to cages in his basement, and giving them electric shocks over a period of several months to learn if they would respond to visual tests. This …

You Scream, I Scream

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Artificial food colors and flavors found in such food as ice cream may be a cause of hyperactivity in children.

Quotations, Thomas H. Huxley, J. J. Rousseau

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A series of quotations by Thomas H. Huxley and J. J. Rousseau.

The Copper Ion (Kingston Collegiate And Vocational Institute)

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The Copper Ion is a weekly publication of Ivar Peterson's grade 12 chemistry class at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute.

Publications

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Heredity and You: How You Can Protect Your Family's Future, by Augusta Greenblatt

To Understand Is to Invent (The Future of Education), by Jean Piaget

How to Make Your Science Project Scientific, by Thomas Moorman

Exploring Energy Choices, preliminary report of the Ford Foundation's Energy Policy Project

Energy Perspectives from the Batelle Institute

Indoor-Outdoor Natural Learning Experiences: A Teacher's Guide

Metric News: Points To Remember, George Fors

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A list of “points to remember” regarding the metric system and metric units.

Iowa Academy Of Science Officers & Directors; Standing Committee Chairmen; Section Chairpersons; Editorial Review Board

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Nsta Pit Stop

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You'll be able to make a pit stop at this year's area convention in Indianapolis on October 23-25. While we hope there's no need for "major repairs" you'll be able to refuel your tank of teaching ideas as you see and hear what others are doing.

Assessing Laboratory Instruction In Biology, Melton E. Golmon

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Biology curriculum developments of the last decade have emphasized the importance of laboratory instruction in the learning environment. Not only do most students enjoy laboratory work but it provides them with an opportunity to make first hand observations, manipulate equipment, collect data, organize data, and draw their own conclusions concerning this information. One teaching strategy for laboratory instruction developed by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) creates a setting in which a question can be formulated that may be answered as a result of laboratory work. Special instruction is given for specific laboratory techniques and skills when necessary but major …

Team Orientation In The Chemistry Laboratory, David N. West

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The importance of laboratory experience for students is widely accepted by chemistry educators and usually includes the following behavioral objectives: 1. Training in the scientific method. 2. Developing skills with laboratory apparatus. 3. Learning and applying chemical theory. 4. Communicating laboratory results. It is the opinion of this writer that through a team orientation approach to instruction other behavioral objectives can be attained in laboratory situations that are also useful to students pursuing professional careers in chemistry.

Coal? What's That?

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In any analysis of the energy resources now available to the United States of America, coal occupies a dominant if not a preeminent position. The very fact that, within the borders of the U.S., there is more energy in the form of coal (more than three trillion tons) than in all of the other combined resources of fossil fuel-petroleum, natural gas, oil shale, and bituminous sandstone-makes coal loom as our most important source of energy for the remaining years of this century, and perhaps for centuries to come.

A Pound Of Prevention: Teacher's Guide To Behavior Problems, James L. Hymes Jr.

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They come to school with one big urge: to be liked by the other children, to find a place they can fit in. It is not a question of being in or out; IN they have to be. Children have only one choice: to be in on something good or to be in on something bad. No child can stand to be ignored. It feels better to be noticed for swearing, or for mistakes, or for forgetting, or for silliness, than not to be noticed at all.

On Appreciating Science

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The scientific attitudes which should be developed are: An intense curiosity about the world in which we live; A firm understanding that every effect has a cause, and every cause is the effect of a prior cause; A firm belief in truth; Making careful and accurate observations; Weighing all the evidence before drawing a conclusion; Appreciating the debt owed to scientists of the past.

Earth Incorporated, Robert Rienow, Leona Train Rienow

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"Earth" is a proper name. Do we speak of "the mars," or of "the jupiter," or of "the venus"? Then why "the earth"? It is a degradation of both our thinking and our very special planet.

Future Shock, Doris A. Simonis

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A short poem by Doris A. Simonis

Algae And Energy, James J. Hungerford

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The extent to which algae contribute to human welfare is often forgotten, ignored or unappreciated. Many types of algae serve as bases in commercially prepared foods and condiments. Algal products are used in cosmetics, textiles, pharmaceuticals and paints. In Asia, algae are often mixed and served with rice and fish to supplement the human diet. In coastal areas of the world, kelps are often chopped as food for livestock. The alga Poryphyra is cultivated in Japan to supply a 65 million pound annual market.

Gracious Reader, Please! Heed Humble Editor's Request

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Confusion says we need certain elusive copies of the ISTJ to complete the library at the Science Education Center.

The Need For Nitrogen, Ralph Hardy

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Exacting a toll of death and suffering, the world's food supply trails population growth. To help bridge this gap, scientists are probing a uniquely-talented group of bacteria. This is Stuart Finley for Men and Molecules, presented by the American Chemical Society. Today, a report on the progress and promise of nitrogen fixation.

Trends In Secondary Science Enrollments In Iowa, Gary Downs

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Enrollment data were collected from the district administration for the five reported years starting with the 1968-69 school year. The data for the 1973-74 school year were collected at the school level. Collection at the school level should provide a more representative data bank for the academic programs. All the science offerings were grouped into the following seven categories: biology, chemistry, earth science, enrichment science, general science, physical science, and physics. It is interesting to note that in the 1968-69 data collection only 19 different courses were reported. In the succeeding years, 25, 56, 71, 74, and 96 were reported …

Student Philosophy In Science Class, Owen Primavera

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As a science teacher I know that facts are vital parts of teaching chemistry or biology, and that the better students understand chemical and biological systems the better they will understand how organisms function. But more than facts seems to be needed to teach ecology.

Iowa Academy Of Science Celebrates Centennial Anniversary Of Founding, Robert W. Hanson

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April 17-19, 1975, marks the observance of an important historical event in Iowa, for it was in 1875 that Charles E. Bessey and a handful of scientists and medical men conceived the original Iowa Academy of Science. One hundred years have produced fantastic changes in life in Iowa, and the Academy of today has almost forgotten its heritage. It has grown from a small fellowship of men dedicated to furthering scientific work in Iowa to 1,400 members-a sizable cross section of the entire scientific community representing pure and applied research, conservation activity, engineering, economics and all levels of education and …

On The Feasibility Of Coal-Driven Power Stations, O. R. Frisch

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The recent discovery of coal (black, fossilized plant remains) in a number of places offers an interesting alternative to the production of power from fission. Some of the places where coal has been found show indeed signs of previous exploitation by prehistoric men, who, however, probably used it for jewels and to blacken their faces at religious ceremonies. The power potentials depend on the fact that coal can be readily oxidized, with the production of a high temperature and an energy of about 0.0000001 megawatt days per gram. That is, of course, very little, but large amounts of coal (perhaps …

Notes On Science Teaching - 2, Leonard H. Sibley

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How are you going to teach? The cone of experience.