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Camas School District; Mathematics Curriculum, Student Learning Objectives K-8, Gregory C. Strohmaier

All Graduate Projects

The Camas School District; Student Learning Objectives (K-8) is designed to help school district personnel comply with Washington State Student Learning Objectives Law RCW 28A.58.090, which requires that all school districts in the state of Washington develop student learning objectives in the areas of reading, language arts, and mathematics. This guide was developed to identify, clarify, and catagorize, sets of goals and student learning objectives which will improve students' learning opportunities in the area of mathematics, and at the same time provide direction for the classroom teacher.

This guide does not reflect all of the goals and objectives taught at …

Development Of The Minimum Competency Exam In Mathematics For The Hoquiam School District, John Daniel Descher

All Graduate Projects

Two competency exams (Test A and Test B) were constructed and field tested on high school students in the Hoquiam School District. Individual results were compared to respective Stanford Achievement Test scores. Statistical analyses were performed to investigate population differences. Results from Test A were compared to results from Test B. Also, differences between performances of juniors and seniors were analyzed. A further statistical analysis was performed to compare performances between boys and girls.

Transformational Geometry Unit, Elizabeth Ann O'Neill

All Graduate Projects

The study included the development and writing of a unit on transformational geometry which involved a holistic approach including the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains. This unit was taught to the eighth grade class in the Oakville School District in Oakville, Washington. The results showed support that the teaching of this unit was effective.

Graduate Bulletin, 1980-1982 (1980), Moorhead State University

Graduate Bulletins (Catalogs)

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No Pain Infliction By Untrained Youths, Christine Stevens

Education Collection

Outlined are the efforts of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWl) for the last twenty-five years to end abuses to animals in high school biology programs. After concluding that the AWl's two brief rules prohibiting painful experimentation were not well understood by students even after years of effort, the AWl adopted the rules of the Canadian science fairs, which are similar to the Westinghouse Talent Search in that they simply prohibit experimentation on vertebrate animals. The presentation includes reference to the AWI manual, "Humane Biology Projects."

Secondary And Elementary School Use Of Live And Preserved Animals, Marvin B. Emmons

Education Collection

The broad use of living animals in elementary and junior school programs that are currently in vogue will be discussed as well as their use in biology classrooms at the senior high level. A comparison will be made of the present use of animals in the biology curriculum at the high school level, both living and preserved, with the use levels some ten and fifteen years ago. The implications of wildlife habitat encroachment and subsequent depletion of native species of classic animal models as well as some alternatives will be reviewed.

The Vertebrate Animal In High School Biology, Alan M. Beck

Education Collection

Live vertebrates afford opportunities to capture student interest and develop important educational experiences. Humane care and handling of the animals can be one of the most significant aspects of the lesson.

The study of classroom animals could include a wide range of observational and experimental protocols that do not compromise humane or conservational standards while providing background on the basics of science that encourage and prepare the student for continued education. Basic attention to detail and careful supervision will insure humane care of the animals and minimize the possibility of injury to students from bites and infection or discomfort from …

Animals In British Schools: Legal And Practical Problems, Jennifer Remfry

Education Collection

Well-managed, healthy animals can be useful and beneficial aids to the emotional and intellectual development of young people at the primary and secondary levels of education. In Britain, vertebrate animals are not used in schools for experiments which might cause pain, distress or disease. The laws protecting animals are comprehensive but at present it is the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) which is having the most impact on the keeping of animals in British schools. The practical skills most needed by teachers are in the handling, sexing and humane killing of animals. Training of teachers should include instruction …

Reverence For Life: An Ethic For High School Biology Curricula, George K. Russell

Education Collection

Ethical and pedagogical arguments are presented against the use of animals by high school students in experiments causing pain/suffering/death of the animal. No justification is seen for such experimentation when perfectly valid alternatives, using noninvasive techniques, exist or could be developed. An important concern is the emotional and psychological growth of young people. An overall objective of high school biology curricula must be to assist students in making viable connections with living biological processes and the natural world.

Humaneness Supersedes Curiosity, F. Barbara Orlans

Education Collection

Ethical considerations need to be addressed with respect to educational use of animals. Society extends greater latitude in what is permissible to do to an animal in the name of science to a professional research worker than to a high school student. A balance needs to be made of the significance of the expected experimental results, on the one hand, which the ethical costs, (in terms of pain or death to the animal), on the other. A reasonable boundary can be drawn, based on ethical as well as on practical considerations, to exclude invasive procedures on vertebrate animals in high …

Student (And Animal) Welfare, Leonard M. Krause

Education Collection

Adolescents exhibit affection for numerous vertebrates and appear to sympathize and to identify with traumas these animals experience. Therapeutic benefits students attach to nurturing and breeding certain vertebrates are evident; destruction of these same creatures produces clearly negative attitudes by students toward the science course and the instructor. "Case histories" documented while teaching high school students working with vertebrates are reviewed and are related to specific techniques (e.g., pithing) utilized by numerous instructors. Motivation, increased attention span, sustained interest, involvement with community issues and other desirable educational goals are demonstrated to be resultants of student involvement with living vertebrates studied …

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Iowa Science Teachers Journal

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Evaluation Of Affective Behaviors Of High School Science Students, Gary E. Downs

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

American education has been in a constant state of change during the last half-century. Some of the changes in science education are being questioned by the critics. Some of the criticism has come about because of the emphasis on subject matter content and very little emphasis, if any at all, on values. Science education must be part of the movement to a more humanistic education for young people. One method that teachers can use to help determine the direction of science education is to try and teach for and measure the affective behavior of their students. This paper is a …

Chemiluminescence, Erwin Richter

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A dramatic chemiluminescence is described by Huntress, et al., which is based on the basic oxidation of luminol.

Roots, Richard F. Trump

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

When I found a way of giving my students a better view of what goes on underground, they started asking better questions, and they found better ways of answering those questions. That was the most exciting aspect of some work I was doing for the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). My assignment was to find ways of using, in the classroom, some of the techniques developed by Dr. Howard Taylor and his associates at Iowa State University involving investigations into root growth.

Outdoor Education At Knoxville, Curt Froyen

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Many of the outdoor science activities at Knoxville wouldn't be possible if it weren't for the unusual arrangement of science classes. Students in the environmental science class, which meets during the fall semester, and the field biology class, which meets in the spring, attend class twice a week for two hours straight and once on Friday for one hour. All students are required to either take one of the field classes or general chemistry, as well as a semester in human biology.

Congratulations

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The Iowa Science Teachers Journal congratulates Floyd Sturtevant of Ames High School for being selected as the recipient of the 1981 American Chemical Society (ACS) Midwest Regional High School Teaching Award and the 1981 ACS James Bryant Grant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching.

Two $200 Cash Scholarships

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

This year at the Hawkeye Science Fair April 3-4, 1981, there will be two special awards given by the Iowa Association of County Conservation Boards and an anonymous donor.

A Review Of A Prose Gem, Dave Fagle

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

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Now and then as we move through this life we are happy that we can read because some small written gem catches our eye. Sharing Nature With Children by Joseph Bharat Cornell is such a gem.

Winter Birdfeeding

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Winter's freezing winds and snow should remind us that many birds maintain permanent residency instead of migrating to warmer climates. Besides finding adequate shelter, their most important task is obtaining a sufficient and steady supply of food.

Energy Booklet

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The following energy booklet is available free from Edison Electric Institute.

Trailing The Trilobite, Joseph H. Brown

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Rocky ledges jutting forth to form stony outcrops along -Iowa's streams, roadcuts and hillsides provide evidence of ancient environments entirely different from the rolling prairies of today. These rocky ledges were laid down in the bottoms of vast shallow seas which covered most of Iowa in its past history. Over great lengths of time, the waters swept back and forth, rising and subsiding, leaving a record in the layers of the earth's materials deposited in their depths. As the seas rose and fell, the deposits buried one another and became layers of conglomerate, sandstone, shale and gypsum. Minerals of calcite, …

The Meter Redefined

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The current definition of the meter, based on the measurement of the wavelength of a line in the ⁸⁶Kr spectrum, is 10⁴ times less accurate than the definition of time by the cesium "atomic clock."

Ethics As A Science: Going From "Is" To "Ought", Warren Shibles

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Two beliefs which serve to prevent teaching, defining, or progress in ethics and morality are: 1. That we cannot derive an "ought" from an "is." We supposedly cannot derive value statements from factual statements. 2. That we cannot define ethical terms in terms of non-ethical terms (naturalistic fallacy). But can we derive an "ought" from an "is?" Does it ever make sense to do so? Let's take a case as it may arise. It is cold outside. I know that a chill may bring on a cold and I wish to avoid catching cold. I then conclude "I ought to …

Nasa Slides

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

NASA is offering sets of slides on 20 different topics in return for Kodachrome 25 film.

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Iowa Science Teachers Journal

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Short Courses

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The University of Northern Iowa has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to improve elementary and secondary teachers' knowledge in the subject matter of science and mathematics.

A Look At Copper, Erwin Richter

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The study of copper and its compounds is among the more aesthetically pleasing aspects of chemistry. Copper compounds range in color from white to black, and include virtually all colors of the visible spectrum. The following exercise is designed to explore some of the chemical properties of copper and copper compounds.

Chemsmiles

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

A brightly-colored collection of slogans on seven different shirts, and 20 stickers for introductory chemistry are now available.

A Non-Polluting Method Of Silver Reclamation, Craig A. Perman

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Pure silver is a brilliant, lustrous, white transition metal occupying the copper subgroup of the periodic table. This metal has been known since antiquity, having been mentioned in Genesis and in pre-dynastic Egypt where it was originally used for coinage and decorative purposes.