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A One Year Integrated Natural Science Course for Colleges, and Its Problems

A One Year Integrated Natural Science Course for Colleges, and Its Problems

Deductive systems and the integration of natural science courses

Deductive systems and the integration of natural science courses

Physics without sight

As recently as ten years ago blind students in colleges and universities of New York City were excluded from natural science courses because of the belief that they would not be able to handle the laboratory work. The writer has personally known of many similar occurrences in other places and of even more recent origin. The notion that blindness necessarily bars an individual from any discipline involving laboratory work is, for the most part, a pure fallacy, and this is certainly the case in the domain of physics. During the past few years enormous strides have been taken toward making practically all physical data directly available to the blind, and it now seems highly appropriate that these advances should be made a matter of record, readily available to all who might be concerned.

Prof. H. P. Lewis

HERBERT PRICE LEWIS, professor of geology in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, died suddenly at his home at Borth, Cardiganshire, on January 22 in his fifty-second year. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lewis of Llangollen, and was a pupil of Llangollen County School, going thence to University College, Bangor. He served in the War of 1914-18 and was severely wounded. Proceeding to Downing College, Cambridge, he took the course in natural science, studying geology under the late Prof. J. E. Marr. He was for a short time a master at Oundle School, and in 1921 went to the University of Sheffield where, as a lecturer in geology, he was closely associated with Prof. W. G. Fearnsides. In 1922 he was awarded the Daniel Pidgeon Fund by the Geological Society of London, and in 1931 the J. B. Tyrrell Fund. As holder of the latter he spent some months in Canada studying the fossil faunas of the Devonian and Carboniferous rocks. In the same year he was appointed to the professorship at Aberystwyth. He was awarded an Sc. D. of the University of Cambridge in 1940 ; and he served on the council of the Geological Society during 1942-44.

AN EXPERIMENT IN EDUCATION

IN an article, An in Education, appearing in the September issue of this Journal, mention was made of the units which constituted the background of that Experiment which is being conducted in Providence, R. I. These units are Ehglish, natural science, biological science, social science, literature, psychology, and the science of politics and government, with such electives as will meet the entrance requirements of the higher institutions of learning where the individual pupil wishes to continue his or her education. The writer has been requested to give a somewhat detailed description of the course in natural science with illustrations which will be reproductions from the notebooks of students taking the course. You may recall that through the

The Correlation of Laboratory and Classroom Work in the Teaching of High-School Chemistry

The purpose of this study is to compare the relative efficiency of three methods of correlating classroom and laboratory work, in the study of high-school chemistry, as measured by immediate and delayed recall of subject matter. It will be seen that the methods vary with relative time of class and experiment ; but that other factors were kept as nearly constant as possible. The three procedures are indicated as : method 0, method 1, and method 2. By method 0, the experiment preceded the class work ; by method 1, a one day pre-view of the topic was made be fore the experiment; by method 2, all class-room work was completed before the laboratory period. The study will attempt to present answers to the following questions : 1. Will the pupil learn more effectively if he does the experiment and then studies in related subject matter than if he is given a pre-view of the topic in class and then w^orks on the experiment? 2. Will the pupil do better if he thoroughly covers the work in class before he does any laboratory work? 3. Which method is most efficient in instructing pupils of differing degrees of intelligence? Science teachers will agree probably that in beginning natural science courses, such as are found in the ordinary high school, the classroom and laboratory work should be definitely interrelated ; that is, on any given topic the two should run parallel, or at least one should follow the other quite closely. The committee on Chemical Education of the American Chemical Society, published in 19241 a Standard Minimum High-School Course in Chemistry. One of the principal teaching objectives of this course is : uTo develop a careful correlation between recitation and ex periment. Whether the recitation should be followed by the experi ment or whether it is desirable to reverse the order is not stated.

The Course in Natural Science in the University Elementary School. III

Previous articleNext article FreeThe Course in Natural Science in the University Elementary School. IIIOtis W. Caldwell, Margaret M. Gordon, Cordelia Kingman, Tirzah S. Morse, C. Frank Phipps, Adaline Sherman, Grace E. Storm, Eleanor Troxell, and Elsie A. WygantOtis W. Caldwell Search for more articles by this author , Margaret M. Gordon Search for more articles by this author , Cordelia Kingman Search for more articles by this author , Tirzah S. Morse Search for more articles by this author , C. Frank Phipps Search for more articles by this author , Adaline Sherman Search for more articles by this author , Grace E. Storm Search for more articles by this author , Eleanor Troxell Search for more articles by this author , and Elsie A. Wygant Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Elementary School Journal Volume 18, Number 8Apr., 1918 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/454634 Views: 5 PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Course in Natural Science in the University Elementary School. II

The Course in Natural Science in the University Elementary School. II

The Course in Natural Science in the University Elementary School. I

The Course in Natural Science in the University Elementary School. I