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The Iowa Science Teachers is sponsoring the following activities for science teachers of Iowa

2nd Annual Workshop on Inland Waters Spawns Project on Little Sioux

The second annual workshop on Inland Waters held at Lakeside Laboratory at Lake West Okoboji has ended

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One of the current fads spreading through the schools of Iowa is the attention being given to mysticism. The science teacher can do a great deal to give the youth of our schools the proper attitude to deal with the technics of the occult. One of the sessions of the Science Teaching Section of the spring meeting of the Iowa Academy will be related to dealing with the problems of the occult

Spirit Lake High School Junior Research Program: A Course of Study

To begin with, I had felt that the time had come in the curriculum development of Spirit Lake High School to offer some further incentive to the science talented student to beyond the regular offering of the curriculum, and to engage in activities which would teach him more of the true essence of science than he could receive in the regular classroom procedures – at least to approach it in a different way

The Only True Multi-Medium Is the Human Being

I would like to react to the present mood of our culture by paraphrasing a statement from Lewis Mumford\u27s great book, The Myth of the Machine. What is needed in education today is a multi-medium for teaching so varied, so many sided, so flexible, so responsive to human need, that it can serve every human purpose .... And then he says, The only true multi-medium remains the human organism itself

The Secondary Science Teacher as an Elementary Science Consultant

Helping the elementary science program grow in the environment m which we find it in our Iowa schools should be the aim of every high school science teacher in our state

High School Science Instructors Can Help with Elementary Science

Four years ago a number of questions were raised by the staff and administration at Spirit Lake. What is the nature of our science instruction at the elementary level? What capabilities do our staff have? What is needed to improve our elementary science program

A Physio-Chemical Analysis of the Headwaters of the Little Sioux River

The magnitude and seasonal variation of 11 selected physiochemical characteristics at four collection sites in the headwater region of the Little Sioux River are reported for a 12-month period from March 1969 through February 1970. Little variation was found between study sites for given sampling times

What Do I Do Now, Teacher?????

Fifteen years of science fairs has brought me into contact with excitement, danger, success, failure, and freakishness such as never could be known if the spontaneity and creativity of youth had not been challenged. The writer is not sure whether science fairs are necessary or not. Sometimes, after they are over, the justification for another is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer because it feels so good when you stop. Let\u27s go back, readers, to some things in the past

This is What I Am!!

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\u27 Journal be an avenue for establishing contact I was at first reticent about telling of myself