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Frontiers In Physical Science, William R. Savage Jan 1968

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.


Rationale For Sequence Of High School Science Courses: Argument For Change, James M. Moulton Jan 1968

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.


Writing And Evaluating The Laboratory Report, David N. West Jan 1968

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.


Elementary Science Workshops Jan 1968

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.


Back Cover Jan 1968

Back Cover

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

No abstract provided.


Cover - Ias & Ists Officers, Directors And Chairpersons - Ist Journal Information - Table Of Contents Jan 1968

Cover - Ias & Ists Officers, Directors And Chairpersons - Ist Journal Information - Table Of Contents

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

No abstract provided.


Open Letter To Iowa Science Teachers' Journal, Ken Carlander Jan 1968

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.


Films Jan 1968

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) Jan 1968

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 Jan 1968

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.


A Naturalist At Large: Skin-In, Skin-Out, Marston Bates Jan 1968

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 Jan 1968

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.


News And Notes Jan 1968

News And Notes

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A listing of upcoming science-related meetings and conferences.


Cover - Ias & Ists Officers, Directors And Chairpersons - Ist Journal Information - Table Of Contents Jan 1968

Cover - Ias & Ists Officers, Directors And Chairpersons - Ist Journal Information - Table Of Contents

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

No abstract provided.


This Is What I Am!!, Milbert H. Krohn Jan 1968

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.


Back Cover Jan 1968

Back Cover

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

No abstract provided.


A Study Of Terminal And Advanced High School Science Courses In The State Of Iowa, Richard W. Gates Jan 1968

A Study Of Terminal And Advanced High School Science Courses In The State Of Iowa, Richard W. Gates

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Information for the study was obtained through the use of the facilities of the Iowa Educational Information Center at The University of Iowa and through direct correspondence with the schools. Terminal science courses are those courses for non-college bound students, in addition to general science, biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics.


An Open Letter From The Chairman Of The Science Teaching Section Of The Iowa Academy, Warren Classon Jan 1968

An Open Letter From The Chairman Of The Science Teaching Section Of The Iowa Academy, Warren Classon

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

When was the last time you took advantage of the opportunity to exchange ideas relative to science instruction and emerging and changing science programs with fellow teachers?


Full Capability And Automatic-Program Planetariums Offered To Schools For The First Time Jan 1968

Full Capability And Automatic-Program Planetariums Offered To Schools For The First Time

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Planetariums Unlimited, a subsidiary of Viewlex, Inc., is now offering the first complete series of school planetarium instruments.


"What Does Membership Mean To The Elementary Teacher?", Gordon Wagner Jan 1968

"What Does Membership Mean To The Elementary Teacher?", Gordon Wagner

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

At a recent in-service meeting in our school, an elementary teacher told me, "We have specialists in our school system who come into my classroom to teach art, music, and physical education. No one helps me teach science! What chance do I have keeping up with the changes in science when I only have a few credits in the first place?"


Dr. Porter Receives Award Jan 1968

Dr. Porter Receives Award

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Dr. Thomas R. Porter, of The University of Iowa, has been awarded a Patriotic Civilian Service Award by the U.S. Army Weapons Command.


A Brief History Of Scholarly Publishing, Donald D. Jackson Jan 1968

A Brief History Of Scholarly Publishing, Donald D. Jackson

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A humorous, tongue-in-cheek time-line of the history of scholarly publishing.


Let's Teach Geology As The Science Of The Earth, Chalmer J. Roy Jan 1968

Let's Teach Geology As The Science Of The Earth, Chalmer J. Roy

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The past decade has been marked by spectacular events in science and technology. The launching of Sputnik I in October 1957 was followed by public hysteria in the United States over the low estate of our education in science.


Open Letter From The Ists President, Richard L. Sweeney Jan 1968

Open Letter From The Ists President, Richard L. Sweeney

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The Iowa Science Teachers Section of the Iowa Academy is growing and is becoming very active in the Science teaching of Iowa. I would like to take this opportunity to thank those who in the past have made the Science Teachers Section an organization in which a science teacher can become active in local, district, and state meetings.


An Analogy Between The Cell And A Factory: A Teaching Technique, Paul A. Christiansen Jan 1968

An Analogy Between The Cell And A Factory: A Teaching Technique, Paul A. Christiansen

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Often in a study of the cell and its cellular processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, assimilation, and growth, biology students find it difficult to acquire an adequate idea of how these living processes interact. Synthesis of these separate processes into an organized whole is even more difficult to comprehend. This paper describes an analogy between a factory and the cell that has been found effective as a classroom discussion technique to more clearly illustrate what the cell must do to maintain itself and to divide.


Book Review: Biology, Its Principles And Implications Jan 1968

Book Review: Biology, Its Principles And Implications

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Book review: Biology, Its Principles and Implications, by Garrett Hardin


A Method Of Teaching Evolution In High School, Jerome J. Jackson Jan 1968

A Method Of Teaching Evolution In High School, Jerome J. Jackson

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A little over a century ago, Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin formally presented the concept of evolution to the world. Since Darwin's publication of The Origin of Species, the theory of evolutionism has been attacked from various quarters, primarily by individuals without scientific backgrounds.


Nsta National Convention Jan 1968

Nsta National Convention

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The National Science Teachers Association will hold its 1968 national convention in Washington, D.C., March 29-April 2.


Cba, Chems, Traditional: The Dilemma, Verne A. Troxel Jan 1968

Cba, Chems, Traditional: The Dilemma, Verne A. Troxel

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Since the advent of the CHEMS and CBA chemistry materials, many teachers have been in a state of confusion as to whether they should use these new materials. Perhaps there is now, or soon will be, adequate research available to you so you can make your choice between the two new programs and the more conventional approach to chemistry.


Science Engineers And Humanities Symposium Jan 1968

Science Engineers And Humanities Symposium

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Iowa-Western Illinois Junior Science, Engineering and Humanities Symposium, co-sponsored by U.S. Army Weapons Command, Army Research Office-Durham, The University of Iowa, Collins Radio Co., Deere & Company, French & Hecht, Iowa-Illinois Gas & Electric Company, Massey-Ferguson Inc., Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, and Chamberlain Manufacturing Company will be held April 8-20, 1968, on the campus of The University of Iowa.