An excellent report by the Physical Sciences Resource Center reviewing middle school physical science textbooks is available online at http://www.psrc- online.org/curriculum/book.html. The authors point out that errors in content are common in the physical sciences and that most authors have life science backgrounds. The report is disturbing given that few middle school teachers have the necessary content skills to catch the errors and that textbook publishers do nothing to correct errors so that they are perpetuated in supposedly revised editions. The answer lies in training teachers to be more competent in teaching science and not to rely on a textbook to do their teaching. Ni Mackevicius, CPS Department of Curriculum --------------------------------------------------------------- Get Free Internet Access And WebEmail At http://www.address.com -- This is the CPS Science Teacher List. To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For more information: <http://home.sprintmail.com/~mikelach/subscribe.html>. To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/science%40lists.csi.cps.k12.il.us/>
