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Florida State University Science Education Curriculum Development Collection, 1966-1985

 

Summary

Abstract:
This collection consists of planning documents, proposals, correspondence and products of major science curriculum projects that had a major impact on the science curriculum used in our nation's middle and high schools.  These projects are the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS), the Individualized Science Curriculum Study (ISIS), and the Interactive Media Science (IMS) projects.
Extent:
98.25 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Florida State University Science Education Curriculum Development Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2012-0322

Background

Scope and content:

This collection documents the creation and development of science teaching materials produced by the science education program at Florida State University from the 1960s to 2005.  The collection consists of the products of all major projects created in science education: The Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS), Individualized Science Curriculum Study (ISIS), The Interactive Media Science (IMS) projects.  Projects created by IMS are Science Vision, EcoVentures: Focus On The Gulf; Burning Issues I and Burning Issues II; Fire in Wildhorse Basin and; Silent Invaders.  Also included are files of the original proposals to funding agencies, planning meetings, and other correspondence for each of the projects.

Biographical / historical:

The Florida State University Science Education Curriculum Development Collection documents the creation and development of science education at Florida State University from the late 1960s through the present. The items in this collection were assembled and held by George Dawson, Professor Emeritus over the course of his 34 years at Florida State University.  They represent approximately $20 million is grants and contracts awarded to the science education faculty members from 1964 to 2005. These materials, constituting several Middle and High School level curricular projects, have had a major impact on science education, in that they were prototypes, funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of the Interior. These projects, the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS), the Individualized Science Curriculum Study (ISIS) and the Interactive Media Science (IMS) projects, were and are extremely successful as measured by numbers of copies in use and the influence they had on curriculum projects done by others. 

Physical location:
Claude Pepper Library
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers. Users may access this collection at the Claude Pepper Library.

Terms of access:

Rights statement: All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Florida State University Science Education Curriculum Development Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2012-0322

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA