Charles Morton's "System of Physicks" was among the most important texts in natural philosophy in early America, used to teach science and the scientific method to students at both Harvard and Yale from the late 1680s through the 1720s. This copy was probably transcribed at one of those institutions in about 1700, and is a fairly complete accounting of Morton's best known work.

This 19th-century sketchbook includes about 30 astronomical illustrations done by a schoolgirl from Greenwich, most likely Connecticut. The stars in the sketches are depicted according to relative magnitude and signaled with bejeweled costume inlays.

Bentley Glass (1906-2005, APS 1963) was a geneticist known for his work with Drosophila and for his support of science education. In the 1960s, he chaired the Steering Committee of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study for the American Institute of Biological Sciences. The work of this Committee emphasized laboratory skills, rather than the recitation of facts, in the hope of producing a new generation of flexible-minded scientists. This draft Laboratory Block on Metabolism is an example of that work.

This Winter 1995 issue of CSIN-SATIONS, the publication of the California Science Implementation Network (CSIN), features essays encouraging teachers to implement inquiry-based science in their classrooms. CSIN was a project of the Alliance for Mathematics and Science (CAMS) that supported summer institutes for classroom teachers that would help teachers translate new California Science Standards into classroom practice