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June 1972
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters
Search and Discovery
Articles
Physical world of the child
Physics Today 25 (6), 23–27 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070889
The physics concepts that children develop earliest, such as “velocity” and “action,” have proven to be the same concepts that have best withstood the “revolutions” in science.
Reflections on a decade of grade‐school science
Physics Today 25 (6), 29–34 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070890
The schoolroom is a subtle place where properly planned experiments, such as those in the Elementary Science Study, can lead children to a working understanding of the ideas of science.
Physics for beginners
Physics Today 25 (6), 36–47 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070891
During the early school years we should provide a highly diversified program based heavily on concrete experiences. The Science Curriculum Improvement Study is one such program.
Science and the worldview
Physics Today 25 (6), 48–54 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070892
Any attempt to provide equal educational opportunities for all must involve us in an effort to reconcile cultural differences whose existence and implications we have largely ignored.
Books
The Spectra and Structures of Simple Free Radicals: An Introduction to Molecular Spectroscopy
Physics Today 25 (6), 55–56 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070893
State and Society
Physics Community
We Hear That
Obituaries
Calendar
Editorial
The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei
Witold Nazarewicz; Lee G. Sobotka
FYI science policy briefs
Lindsay McKenzie; Jacob Taylor