State of School Science A Review of the Teaching of Mathematics, Science and Social Studies in American Schools, and Recommendations for Improvements. (1979) / Chapter Skim
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The Elementary School Curriculum
The Elementary School Curriculum
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In the NSF case studies, Stake and Easley indicate that the teaching of science had a very low priority in most of the elementary schools visited. Most schools we studied had some written policy about what and how elementary science should be taught, but what actually was taught was left largely to individual teachers.
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The extent to which the emphasis on reading and textbooks pervaded the elementary science program is illustrated by an episode observed in an elementary life science class where the teacher opened a recitation period with the question: How do we learn? A chorus of students replied: "We learn by reading..." Other than the fairly common practice of learning science by reading from a textbook series, the selection of what was to be read and the actual time spent on reading science varied greatly from teacher to teacher.
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. It should also be noted that the usage figures in Table 2 cannot be used to calculate meaningful subtotals for science, mathematics, and social studies, since school districts and teachers commonly use materials from more than one federallyfunded project in a given category.
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Although the NSF statistical survey identifies the most commonly used mathematics textbooks, no attempt was made to analyze their content. However, the Educational Products Information Exchange (EPIE)
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. The NSF statistical survey's estimates of teacher usage of the three NSF-funded elementary science programs are lower than those which have appeared in earlier studies.
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. The four most commonly used elementary science texts listed in the NSF statistical survey utilize for the most part a didactic approach to science, in which most of the learner's time is spent reading and listening (EPIE Institute, 1977b)
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