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Biology and chemistry for middle schools
Biology and Chemistry for Middle Schools is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the association that had appeared in the ASE journal, School Science Review.
The sections of this resource and the topics are as follows.
The philosophy of Middle School science
* Science in primary schools
* Integration in the primary school
School-based biological investigations
* Homoiothermy
* A student's project investigating mucus secretion by Helix aspersa
* Investigations with stick insects
* Germination rate and water supply
Chromatography
* Chromatography for junior schools
* Simple experiments in chromatography
* Paper chromatography of felt-tip inks
* Food colouring in Smarties
Photography
* Introducing children to photography
* Introducing children to photography without a darkroom
* A simple introduction to photography
Ecology
* An analysis of Barn Owl pellets from the Oxford region
* A comparative study of four species of buttercup suitable for Junior forms
* Estimation of worm population
* The ecology of a concrete pathway
* The use of pitfall, water and cover traps as an introduction to animal ecology
* Collecting, extracting, identifying and counting soil animals
Making apparatus
* Old balance cases as animal cages
* An incubator from a Perspex aquarium
* Measuring the height of trees
* A woodlouse vivarium
Miscellaneous investigations
* Experimental smoking
* Breaking strain of cement/sand rods
* Food storage in the home
* Polystyrene ceiling tiles
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