TEACHINGOF SCIENCE I N ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARYMODERNMETHODSAND MATERIALS FOR TEACHING SCIENCE. SCHOOLS. Victor H. Noll. Longmans, Green & Co., New E. D. Heiss, Ph.D., Professor and Headof the ScienceDepartYork City, 1939. viii 238 pp. 8 figs. 13.5 X 21.5 cm. ment, State Teachers College, East Strondsburg, Pa., E. S. 52.00. Obourn, B.S., Head of Science Department. John Burroughs School, Clayton, Mo., C. W. Hoffman, M.A., Instructor of I n a bibliography of 400 titles the author cites many articles Science, Blair Academy. Blairstown, N. J. The Macmillan Co., reporting investigations in the teaching of science. The body of New York City. 1940. x 347 pp. 27 figs. 14 X 21 cm. the book summarizes their results and points out their signifi$2.50. cance t o the teacher under the scientific attitude (17 pp.), methods (31 pp.), the science curriculuh (82 pp.), measurement of Section I, one hundred forty pages, is devoted to the principles achievement (79 pp.), thescience teacher's qualifications (18pp.). of science teaching, Section 11, one hundred thirty-two pages, to According t o the index the major items under chemistry are the visual and other sensory aids, Section 111, seventy-seven pages, content of the chemistry texts (3 pp.), diagnostic studies (4 pp.), to sources of materials. The aim of science teaching is to help tests (4 pp,). But the chemistry teacher will profit by the re- pupils adjust themselves to a rapidly changing environment in sults of the many studies even though the subject matter taught. which science is playing a prominent part. Science can conby the investigator was not chemistry. All science teachers will tribute a group (1) of interpretive understandings, (2) of apprecibe grateful for this list and interpretation of investigations in the ations, (3) of attitudes or mind-sets, and (4) a method of attack on problems. teaching of science. The book provides a good bibliography of books and articles. The reviewer hesitates to call attention t o the omission from the bibliography of his own "Introduction t o the Teaching of I t reDOrtS faithfully the content of many of these, but it comes Science" (1934)book of similar purpose. The author will to no conclusions. The chapters on the psychology of science find in it summaries of a number of investigations which he has teaching, methods, laboratory and demonstration, importance of also omitted from his bibliography and which seem important t o reading, evaluation of learning, present valuable abstracts, and the reviewer. Ignorance of this body of readily available mate- perhaps it is best t o let the reader draw his ownconclusions. The beginning teacher may wish counsel. rial seems rather inexcusable. Section 111 lists titles of books and periodicals with their pubThe author gives a list of "The Best Available Tests in Science" without indicatina anv basis for his selection. His readers lishers, sources of pictures, models, charts, films. Science pupils might like a list of thos; heielegates t o the limbo of the nndesir- need to study things a t first hand. Such "aids" may be distractions unless used with moderation and discretion. Supply houses able in order to form their a+n judgments. E. R. DOWNING and publishers are in business to sell goods, not to educate youngTHE
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prwedurcs by rcading Section I. T h e other scctions sill l w used TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF ORESAND METALLURGICAL PRODUCTS. for occasiond referrncc. The book will appeal moil to tcachers F. D. Hills, Chemist, Experimental Plant, Colorado School of of general science and biology. ELLIOTR. DOWNING Mines. Second Edition, Revised. Chemical Publishing Co.. TXB UNIYHRSITY OF CAICAOO 250 pp. 14 X 21 cm. Inc., New York City, 1939. xir CHIC*OO, ILLINOLS 8.00. The author has endeavored t o present something different from the run-of-mine texts in metallurgical analysis by corre- -DEPENDABLE MODERNTREATMENTS FOR BURNS. Harold Joe lating results with the accounting procedures as practiced in the Dauis. Underhill Press, Beebe, Arkansas, 1940. 8 pp. usual plant. The theme, "no analytical method is of universal 10 X 16 cm. S.50. application" is successfully accomplished. The author's wide I n this pamphlet the author discusses the various kinds and experience has enabled him to discuss accurately the application degrees of burns, giving valuable information and advice reof different methods. garding first-aid treatment. Special attention is given t o eye C. F. BAKER bums, burns from chemicals, and poufder burns. Various modern Turns Comsas treatments far bums are discussed brgfly. A two-page glossary BOSTON. MASLUCAUS~S of terms used in discussing burns and treatments concludes the pamphlet. The author's connections and training are not given, and there THE COMPOSITION OF ANCIENTGREEK BRONZECOINS. Earl Radclife Calcy, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Princeton is no bibliography of source materials. The price of fifty cents University. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society. seems high, as similar pamphlets treating the same subjects are Volume XI, 1939. The American Philosophical Society, available from various authoritative sources, some of them free on request and others a t from fire t o ten cents each. Independence Square, Philadelphia. 1939. viii 203 pp. J. 0. FUNK 4 plates. 15 X 23 cm. Paper hound. $2.50. This publication is an account of the best w o k which has yet been done on the careful and complete analysis of ancient Greek bronze coins of known authenticity. The results, rigorously established and set down with scientilic precisian, are data for A P R A ~ I C AMANUAL Harold L oa C H E M ~ AENGINEERING. L the use of the student of political and economic history. They Tongue, Principal Assistant; The Chief Engineer's Departindicate, or really demonstrate, the changing prosperity of the ment, The London County Council. Foreword by Sir Gilbert Greek cities, the probable influx of coinage metal from Carthage Morgan. D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.. New York City, after its destruction, and the increasing imluence of Rome in the 1939. xv 560 pp. 305 figs. 15 X 24.5 cm. $12.00 (net). Mediterranean world. The author states that the practical manual of chemical engiThe book is a contribution less to chemistry than to the data of neering resulted from the expansion of notes, collected over history. I t is less a b w k t o be read than a hook to support con- twenty years, on the design and construction of chemical process clusions. Professor Caley's own conclusions are extremely in- plants. This book, therefore, was compiled as a manual of teresting, and illustrate clearly the way in which the results of reference for those engaged in problems of chemical plant design chemical studies on archeological objects may contribute t o our and operation rather than as a formal academic text. insight into the social and economic processes of the past. C. W. S ~ O N S TENNEYL. DAVIS
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