PROFESSIONAL RESUME

michael b. leyden

an introduction

Michael B. Leyden is a native of Attica, New York, where he attended local schools and his collegiate experiences are cited below. After teaching JHS for three years he completed his Masters and then joined a college science staff where he also taught for three years. It was at this time his children were born: Andrew in 1966 and Margot a year later. He then finished his doctoral studies and assumed his science education career in 1970. His dissertation is entitled:

"A Laboratory-Oriented College Course in Environmental Geology"

Dr. Leyden has conducted scores of workshops and presented the keynote address at many conventions throughout the country. The topics are varied but center on the various themes in science education; Piagetian thought, and brain functioning.

Michael has written numerous journal articles / textbooks that are listed elsewhere.

Home
2610 South Fifth Street --------- Charleston, Illinois 61920
Phone: 217 - 345 - 2326

Retired Professor
Elementary Education -- Eastern Illinois University -- Charleston, Illinois 61920

Internet: cfmbl@eiu.edu.
Home Page: http://www.eiu.edu/~scienced

DEGREES

BS 1961 - Elementary / JHS Education
State University New York - Brockport

MED 1965 - Earth Science Education
University of Florida - Gainesville

EdD 1970 - Earth Science Education
University of Florida - Gainesville

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1989-1999 --- Eastern Illinois University - Charleston

1988-1989 --- National Science Consultant - Addison-Wesley Publishers

1970-1988 --- Eastern Illinois University - Charleston

Science in the Elementary School
Science Curriculum in the Elementary School
JHS Science/Mathematics Methods
Materials/Activities in Science
Developing Student Creativity
Senior Practicum Supervision
The Interdisciplinary Curriculum in the Middle School
Computers in Education
Accessing / Assessing Internet Science Resources
(this is a Web-Based course; no direct classroom instruction)
Senior Seminar: Controversial Issues in Education

1965-68 --- State College - Westfield, Massachusetts

Astronomy
Geology
Physical Science

1961-64 --- Junior High School - Batavia, N.Y.

7th / 8th / 9th Grade General Science
9th Grade Mathematics
10th Grade Biology Labs

Guest Faculty: Short Course

'74 -- U. Wisconsin - Superior
'86 -- Alaska Pacific University
'86 -- U. Alaska - Fairbanks
'89 -- U. California - Long Beach
'90 / '91 / '93 / '95 -- U. Nevada - Las Vegas

NSTA Honors Seminar Presenter:

Summ '84 -- U. of Iowa
Summ '85 -- Temple U.

Seminar: The Brain and The Curriculum

Spring '83 -- Indiana University - S.E.
Summ '83 / '84 -- Chicago Museum of Science / Industry

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan:

For three months in summer of 1994, and again in December,
he was the chief curriculum consultant for a 1st-8th grade textbook writing project
in the Ministry of Education -- Amman, Jordan.

King Alfred's College - Winchester, England

1998 - Spring Semester Sabbatical -- Visiting Professor

Tekyio University - Europe:
Maastricht Center For Trans Atlantic Studies --- Maastricht, Netherlands

2000 - Spring Semester: Water and Earth - A College Geology Course

GRADUATE EXPERIENCES

Dr. Leyden's unique graduate record of over nine years of study at 23 colleges
and field sites in 13 states and 6 countries on 5 continents is the result of a dozen grants
from the National Science Foundation; New York State and a graduate assistantship
during his doctoral studies in at the University of Florida.
It testifies to his belief in lifelong learning.

State University New York: Buffalo
Biology Field Methods ---- Fall 1961
Human Biology ----------- Sprg 1962

State University New York: Oneonta
Physiology of Man ---- Summ 1962
Historical Geology ---- Summ 1962

State University New York: Brockport
Evolution ---------------------- Fall 1962
Adolescent Psychology ----- Sprg 1963
Radiation Biology ---------- Summ 1963
Selected Topics: Physics ------ Fall 1963
Selected Topics: Physics ---- Sprg 1964

University of Florida: Gainesville
Masters Degree Program
Fall 1964 -- Summ 1965

Smith College: Northampton, Massachusetts
Chemistry ----- Fall 1966
Chemistry ---- Sprg 1967

Gulf Coast Research Laboratory: Biloxi, Mississippi
Chemical Marine Geology ---- Summ 1967
Physical Marine Geology ----- Summ 1967

State College: Westfield, Massachusetts
Elementary Statistics ---- Fall 1967

Rice University: Houston, Texas
Gulf Coast Geology ---- Summ 1968

SW Center For Advanced Studies: Dallas, Texas
Experimental Petrology ---- Summ 1968
Isotope Geochemistry ------ Summ 1968
Rock Magnetism ------------- Summ 1968

University of Florida: Gainesville
Doctoral Degree Program
Fall 1968 -- Summ 1970

East Central State College: Ada, Oklahoma
Elementary Science Curricula ---- Summ 1971

University of California: Berkeley
SCIS Workshop ---- Fall 1972

University of Wisconsin: Superior
ESS Workshop ---- Summ 1974
Physics ----------------- Fall 1974
Physics ---------------- Sprg 1975
Outdoor Workshop -- Summ 1975

Ohio State University: Columbus
JHS Science Curricula -- Summ 1975

Western Kentucky University: Bowling Green
Science & Development of Reasoning --- Sprg 1980

South Dakota School of Mines: Rapid City
Geology Field Camp ---- Summ 1981
A four week program sponsored by EIU and hosted at SDSM

Eastern Illinois University: Charleston
Environmental Biology ---- Summ 1972
Photography ------------------ Sprg 1974
Modern Global Geoscience --Summ 1975
Basic BASIC: TRS-80 ----- Summ 1979
Basic BASIC: Apple --------- Sprg 1981
Brain and Mind ------------- Summ 1981
Geology Field Camp ------- Summ 1981
Petroleum Geology --------- Summ 1982
Math Anxiety ----------------- Summ 1982
Martin Luther & Reformation - Summ 1984
The Creation-Evolution Debate - Summ 1987

Lakeland College : Mattoon, IL
Stock Market Investing ---------- Sprg 1987

Digital Photography ---------- Sprg 2011

Dr. Leyden has been a research participant on Earthwatch expeditions associated with . . .

University of Tarapaca: Arica, Chile
Pre-Columbian Peoples ------- Summ 1986

University of Zurich: Zurich, Switzerland
Life & Death of Plateosaurus ------- Summ 1988

University of Newcastle: Newcastle, England
Roman Fort on Tyne ------- Summ 1995

University of Notre Dame Field Station: Fort Peck, Montana
End of the Dinosaurs ------ Summ 1997

University of Notre Dame Field Station: Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
Dinosaur Discoveries ------ Dec 1997-Jan 1998

University of Notre Dame Field Station: Fort Peck, Montana
K-T Dinosaurs ------ Summ 1998

University of Notre Dame Field Station: Fort Peck, Montana
End of the Dinosaurs ------ Summ 2000

University of Notre Dame Field Station: Fort Peck, Montana
TRexes & Triceratops ------ Summ 2003

PUBLICATIONS

About 100 million students have investigated their environment
with the numerous curriculum activities that Dr. Leyden has designed.

Science Activities

Feb 72 --- The Girth Of The Earth
May 72 --- Window Astronomy - On Plotting Celestial Motions
Jan 73 --- Piaget and the National Clay Boat Contest
Mar 73 --- The Helium Balloon Project - Expanding Student Horizons
Oct 73 --- Testing For Process
M-J 74 --- Analysis of That Mysterious Figure 8
J-F 75 --- Telephone Poles, Pencils and Inquiry
S-0 75 --- Carbonated Beverages - The Bubble Machine
M-J 76 --- Bubbles - A Many Sided Project
S-O 76 --- Lunar Movements - A Teaching Model
Spg 78 --- Oh Nuts! I Don't Understand Acceleration
F-M 80 --- Science Can Be Wheel Fun
S-O 80 --- Piaget and One Square Inch of Thought
N-D 80 --- Hamburger Mathematics
F-M 8l --- Rocks in a Box
A-M 8l --- Directory Assistance
N-D 83 --- Einstein, Relativity, and the American Revolution
F-M 84 --- Tick-Tock: Time On My Hands

Science and Children

J-F 73--- Domestic Oases: A Study of Household Water Use
J-F 74--- Letters: The Helium Balloon Data Bank
Nov 73--- Goo
Nov 74--- CB IV: The Fourth National Clay Boat Championships
N-D 75--- Histograms and Raisin Bread
N-D 75--- Phenomena for Inquiry: Transmission Poles
N-D 77--- Phenomena for Inquiry: Radio Reception
Feb 76--- Blackboard Ellipses
May 78--- Changes - A Study of Solar Motion
Apr 84--- For Its Only A Paper Moon

Summer l984 - Named Editor of Early Adolescence Column (EAC)

Oct 84 --- EAC - (Bettye Sue Tubertini) A Camp Out - Conference Style
N-D 84 -- EAC - Patience, My Child! Patience
Jan 85 --- EAC - The Great String Drop
Feb 85 --- EAC - Good Vibrations
Apr 85 --- EAC - Celestial Meetings -- Synodic Periods
Sep 85 --- EAC - The Strange Silo Problem

The Science Teacher

Nov 73--- Clay Boats: Classroom or National - Idea Bank
Apr 76--- Stepping Into Water and Mud to Move With River Rhythms
Oct 76--- Letters - response to above
Dec 76--- Repair of Thermometers - Idea Bank
Mar 77--- Retelling the Barometer Story
Apr 80--- Calling Scientists
Mar 84--- You Graduate More Criminals Than Scientists
Nov 84--- The Elliptical Johannes Kepler : ( Washington Educational Press Award )
Sep 85--- Reflecting on William Herschel

1996-97 -- NSTA / EXXON Energy Posters
He was a member of the author team who created ten posters -
(22" x 34") - distributed by NSTA in their journals:
The Science Teacher, and Science Scope.
He designed and wrote THE SUN; and THE EARTH.

Science Scope

Sep 84 --- The Water Planet - An Illusion
Apr 86--- Nature's Angles
Oct 86--- A Drop In and Out of the Bucket

School Science and Mathematics

Oct 74--- An Analysis of Helium Balloon Data
Apr 76--- Science, Careers and the Elementary School
Apr 8l--- A Funny Thing Happened To Me While Waiting for a Hamburger

Science Education (Book re-vus)

Jan 73--- Imagination and the Growth of the Sciences
Apr 73--- A Sense of the Earth
Oct 73--- Red Rock Country: The Geologic History of the Colorado Plateau
Jan 74--- Teaching and Earth Science in the Secondary School
Jan 74--- Trends in American Geological Education During the Critical Years (l954-60)

FAST Journal - Florida Association of Science Teachers

Sum 79--- Quantifying the Moon's Motion
Fall 84--- You Graduate More Criminals Than Scientists

ISTA Spectrum - Illinois Science Teachers Association

Fall 76--- Clay Boating in America
Fall 83--- The Triangle-Square Problem
Dec 86--- Earthwatch: Pre-Columbian Culture

Current Science ----- Jan 9, 1978

Can You Drink With a 50' Straw?

Journal of Geological Ed ----- Jan / Feb 1979

Simulated Three-Point Problems

Transescence ----- The J. of the Emerging Adolescent Education -- vol xi #1 1983

The Learning Cycle: A Teaching Strategy for the Middle Grades

ESTES Educator News ----- May 1985

Myths Of Teaching Science

USA Today -----
  July 26, 1985: Illinois: Are Wyatt's Priorities Confused?
  Dec 4, 1997:   Goodbye & Thanks to Gramblin Coach
  Feb 22, 1999:  Definition Elusive
  Mar 16, 2001:  Academics Come Second
  Jan 13, 2004:   Gateway to nowhere

Mar 15, 2011: If Unions Lose, So Do People

Aug 10, 2010: Attention spans get rewired – interviewed w/r to the impossibility of brain multi-tasking.

The brain works on one thing at a time. When you go to Task #2, it stops working on

Task #1. So you are EITHER driving the car - OR - texting. Not both.

Jan 14, 2012: Pick Outsider for Next Coach

Mar 15, 2012: Poll Questions Deceptive

Apr 26, 2012: Buffett Rule is a Start

Aug 14, 2012: Focus on Relationships

Earthwatch ---- Apr 1989

Guest Commentator: "Nothing to Declare"

Addison-Wesley Science Professional Information Bulletin: 1989

Teaching Controversial Issues: Evolution

Journal of Geological Ed : 1992: V. 40, p. 194

Sander, P.M.; Gee, C.T.
A Volunteer-Powered Dinosaur Excavation in the Upper Triassic of Switzerland
Dr. Leyden was a member of the Earthwatch research team who uncovered
the dinosaur bones cited in the title

Yearbook Chapters

1979 AETS Yearbook
Theme: Science Education/Society -
A Guide to Interaction and Influence -- Career Education

1987 ATE Proceedings Theme:
Diversity & Challenge in Teacher Education ---
"Earthwatch: Dead Men in Chile"

Charleston Times Courier

Jan l2, 1989 --- Guest Column: If Abortion Is Outlawed
Jun l9, 1990 --- Letters: Flag Flap Harder on Rule Makers
Jan 20, 1991 --- Guest Column: Gulf War Death Toll Bound to Get Higher
Mar 22,1991 --- Letters: Here's Another Way To Pay For Freedom
Mar 1992 --- Letters: Who Gets The Bill?
Oct 22, 1992 --- Letters: Be Careful What You Wish For
Nov 19, 1994 -- 'Reporting LIVE from Jordan - It's Michael'
Mar 6, 1996 --- Political Debates Are Foreign to This Voter
Apr 1997 --- 'Keep Your Nose Clean' Takes On New Meaning
Dec 7, 1998 -- 'Mascot Name Irks Prof'
Apr 29, 1999 -- Multiply Columbine Terror By Six ....
Mar 1999 -- 'Digging For Dinosaurs'
May 10, 2001 -- Listening to The Dead Silence - Mummy Autopsy in Chile
Oct 4, 2008 – Russia By River
Mar 2010 – Parental NUMB3RS – Apollo 7 Astronauts & Apollo 7 Conference Parents
Apr 20, 2011 – Some ‘shots’ Count More Than Others
Jly , 2011 – EGYPT – Land of Contrasts

TEACHING Pre-K-8 - Science Corner Columnist: 1989-99

This journal has a subscription base of about 150,000 teachers.

1989-90:

A/S --- Shadow Watching
N/D --- Books For Young Scientists
Jan --- An Ice Way To Start The Year
Feb --- Bouncing The Beams
Feb --- Acids, Bases And Acid Rain
Mar --- Pendulum Pondering
Apr --- Exploring The Planet
N/D --- Waste Not, Want Not
May --- The Worms' Turn

1990-91:

A/S --- It's Getting A Little Crowded In Here
Oct --- Going Through A Phase
Feb --- Oil Spills Make For Troubled Waters
Feb --- Discrepant Events
Feb --- Science Bookshelf
Mar --- It's Not The Heat ... It's The Humidity
Apr --- An Earthshaking Unit
May --- Super Bubbles

1991-92

A/S --- Getting Off to a Wonderful Start
Oct --- Pulling the Plug on Science
N/D --- A Walk In Outer Space
Jan --- Up, Up and away
Feb --- A Diet Report Card: F Is For Fat
Mar --- Birds, Bears And Bicycles
Apr --- Water On The Brain
May --- Discovering Density

1992-93

A/S --- Start The Year With A Pop
Oct --- How To Give Science A Spin
N/D --- The Hole Thing
Jan --- Athletic Pressure At The Winter Olympics
Feb --- Discovering Density
Mar --- Every Breath You Take
Apr --- Sneakers, Muscles and Science
May --- Radiant Energy: What It Is & What It Does

1993-94

A/S --- Science At Your Fingertips
Oct --- Expansion & Contraction Matters
N/D --- 'Building' a Balloon in a Bottle
Jan --- A Model Thinker
Feb --- The Egg & I
Mar --- Air Pressure "Eggs-periment"
Apr --- An Attractive Science Lesson
May --- Pedaling Into Summer

1994-95

A/S --- Round and Round We Go
Oct --- A Picture Perfect Activity
N/D --- Seat Belt Science
Jan --- An Activity to Whet Students' Enthusiasm
Feb --- How Many Liters in a Wet Blanket
Mar --- A Lesson Centering on Gravity
Apr --- Beats The Daylight Out of Me
May --- Ripping Into Science

1995-96

A/S --- The Eyes Have It
Oct --- Eclipsing The Light . . . Fantastic
N/D --- Eclipse Seasons
Jan --- A Weighty Gravity Lesson
Feb --- The Sounds of Science
Mar --- "Sinkers" and "Floaters"
Apr --- A Scientific Eggs-ercise
May --- Silver Anniversary Science

1996-97

Sep --- Following the Sun : Sundials
Oct --- Rising Raisins and Sinking Divers
N/D ---The Soup-Can Olympics
Jan --- Hot and Cold and Really Cold
Feb --- Shadows on the INTERNET
Mar --- Bubbles Science
Apr --- Cool, Clear Water
May --- Science Is a Household Word

1997-98

Sep --- Toasting and Testing
Oct --- Living In A Red, White and Blue World
N/D --- A Spiral Curriculum
Jan --- Silos: Surface Area / Volume Relationships
Feb --- Measuring Seasonal Changes
Mar --- Getting Into the Swim With Dinosaurs
Apr --- Having A Ball With Science
May --- Reflections On A Year of Science

1998-99

Sep --- The Notion of Motion
Oct --- Energy On The Move
N/D --- Lighting the Lamp of Knowledge
Jan --- An Attractive Lesson
Feb --- Geologic Time
Mar --- Basking in The Sun
Apr --- Author Says Good Bye - Plans For The Future

BOOKS

About 18 million students have used his books as the
basis of their yearly science curriculum.
Some of his writings are published in
Arabic; Spanish; Dutch; German and French.

Middle School Texts : Addison-Wesley: Canada Publisher

1981 ----- Barr / Leyden Science 7-A / 7-B
1983 ----- Ecologie principes de base --- French translation
1992 ----- Consulting Author: Explorations in Science -- Grades 1-6

Addison-Wesley Publishers

1979 ----- Barr / Leyden - Life Science
1984 ----- Barr / Consulting Author, Leyden - Life Science
1986 ----- Barr / Consulting Author, Leyden - Life Science
1990 ----- Barr / Consulting Author, Leyden - Life Science

1984 ----- Barr / Johnson / Leyden - Physical Science
1988 ----- Johnson / Barr / Leyden - Physical Science
1988 ----- Leyden / Johnson / Barr - Introduction to Physical Science

Elementary K-6 Textbooks : Addison Wesley Science

1989 ----- Barman / Gutherie / Leyden / Mercier / DeSpezio / Ostlund
1992 ----- Barman / Gutherie / Leyden / Mercier / DeSpezio / Ostlund
1995 ----- Brummett / Lind / Barman / Leyden / DeSpezio / Ostlund - et. al. -- Contributing Author

1994-1995-1996 Leyden: ---Consulting Author --- Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan --- 1st thru 8th grade textbooks

Others: Houghton-Mifflin
1975 ----- Leyden / Peterson --- Career Education and Physical Sciences

Silver Burdett Publishers
1982: Barman / Johnson / Leyden / Rusch Teaching Science: Grades 5-9

Indiana University Press
1986: Barman / Cooney / Leyden

Thinking About Learning - Learning About Thinking

Tel-Education Productions
1987: Leyden - "Little Things Make Kids Wonder" -
90 min Video / Video script / Teacher Guide

Greenwatch: London Publisher
1993: Leyden --

Air Pollution --- Middle School Activity-Centered Modules

Essential Learning Products
1996: Science Content Editor: K-6 Series

Encyclopedia Brittanica
2001: Contributing author on K-9 Internet Modules

Publications International, Ltd.
2005: Look, Find & Learn: Science & Nature
Science Content Editor

Editorial Referee

Science Education -- School Science and Mathematics -- Highlights Magazine

Editorial Consultant

• Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich

• Prentice Hall

• Laidlaw Brothers

• Scott-Foresman

• Harper Collins

• Allyn & Bacon

TRAVEL

In addition to his formal educational, Michael has traveled extensively outside the United States.
These experiences have significantly contributed to the diversity of his education.

1983
England ----- Wales ----- Scotland ----- Ireland

1984
England ----- Denmark ----- Norway ----- Sweden ----- West Germany ----- Holland

1985
Newfoundland ---- Italy ---- Sicily ---- Switzerland ---- France ---- San Marino

1986
Peru ---- Chile ---- Jamaica

1988
Switzerland -- Luxembourg -- Netherlands -- Belgium -- Austria -- W / E Germany -- W / E Berlin

1990
Puerto Rico

1991
Puerto Rico ---- Australia ---- New Zealand ---- Tahiti

1993
England

1994
Jordan ---- West Bank ---- Golan Heights ---- Israel ---- Palestine --- Jordan

1995
England ---- Scotland ---- France

1996
England ---- Wales ---- Ireland ---- Northern Ireland ---- Newfoundland

1997
England ---- Belgium ---- France ---- China

1998
China ---- England ---- Spain ---- Portugal ---- Spanish Ceuta ---- Morocco

1999
Romania (Solar Eclipse) ---- Turkey ---- Greece ---- Germany ---- Belgium ---- Netherlands

2000
Netherlands ---- Germany ---- Belgium ---- Kenya ---- Ireland ---- Italy --- Vatican City --- France --- Monte Carlo ---- Ireland

2001
Scotland ----- England ----- Ireland

2002
Ireland ---- Northern Ireland ---- England

2003
England ---- Switzerland ---- Austria ---- Italy

2004
England ---- Belgium ---- France

2005
Hong Kong ---- Macau ---- Sweden ---- Lapland ----- Finland ---- Estonia

2007
England --- Scotland --- Isle of Mull

2009
Egypt

2010
Ireland - Northern Ireland - England

2011

Curaçao - Aruba - Costa Rica - Panama - Bahamas

2013

England

2014

PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS

Dr. Leyden has presented many workshops to school districts, state and national conventions.

His sessions are filled with activities, slides, and student participation

which present the topic in a creatively cognitive and humorous style.

A sampling of the titles --

Discrepant Events, Piaget & the Brain's Reticular Activating System
Help! I'm Being Held Prisoner in a Science Methods Course
Left Brain/Right Brain: Fact, Fiction and a News Update
The Learning Cycle - Sensible Styles of Teaching
Critical / Creative Thinking in Children and Adults
But I Don't Have Time to Teach Science
There's a Sucker Born Every Minute
Acid Rain and the Learning Cycle
You Can Teach The "Right" Way
We Teach Teachers 'Real Good'
Did'ja Ever Wonder?

He presents workshops at Regional and National NSTA Conventions

Milwaukee ('71) -- Detroit ('72) -- St.Louis ('72) -- Memphis ('74)
Indianapolis ('75) -- Philly ('76) -- Minneapolis ('76) -- Cincinnati ('77)

D.C. ('78) -- Milwaukee ('78) -- Atlanta ('79) -- Anaheim ('80)
NY ('8l) -- Chicago ('82) -- Dallas ('83) -- Boston ('84)

Albuquerque ('84) --- Cincinnati ('85) -- Hartford ('85) -- S. F. ('86)
Indy ('86) -- Anchorage ('86) -- Washington ('87) -- Pittsburgh ('87)

San Antonio ('87) -- Miami ('87) -- St. Louis ('88) -- Portland, ME ('88)
Little Rock ('88) -- Charleston, SC ('88) -- Seattle ('89)

Atlantic City ('89) -- Tulsa ('89) -- Atlanta ('90) -- Puerto Rico ('90)
Houston ('91) -- Reno ('91) -- Boston ('92) -- Kansas City ('93)

Louisville ('93) -- Anaheim ('94) -- Philadelphia ('95) -- St. Louis ('96)

NSTA Keynoter:

1985: Cincinnati -- 1989: Phoenix -- 1990: San Juan, P.R. -- 1991: Reno

Additional sessions in --

Cincinnati ('74) -- Green Bay ('83) -- Port Huron ('73) -- New York ('79)
Honolulu ('83) -- Superior, WI ('78) -- Indy ('81) -- S. Diego ('83)

Storm Lake, IA ('81) -- N. Orleans ('81) -- Long Beach ('82) --
Kingsport, TN ('82) -- Long Beach ('84) -- Denver ('85) -- Madison ('82)

Indianapolis ('82) -- Cedar Rapids ('85) -- Wausau ('82) -- Milwaukee ('82)
Denver ('86) -- Salem, IN ('83) -- W. Des Moines & C. Rapids ('82)

Anchorage ('86) -- Lakewood, CO ('84) -- Fairbanks ('86) -- Barrow, AK ('86)
Daytona Beach ('82) -- Lexington ('86) -- Seattle ('86) --

W. Des Moines ('83) -- Fort Meyers ('83) -- Chicago ('87) -- Phoenix ('87)
Minneapolis ('83) -- Louisville ('87) -- Detroit ('87) -- St. Louis ('83)

New York ('87) -- Anchorage ('89) -- Bronx ('88) -- Bronx ('89) -- Tallahassee ('89)
St. Petersburg ('89) -- Worcester, MA ('89)

Pinehurst ('89) - Ashville ('89) - UC-Long Beach ('89) - UNLV ('90)
Albany, NY ('89) -- Kansas City ('89) --- St. Louis ('90) -- Kansas City ('90)

Charlotte ('89) -- DeKalb, Ga ('89) -- Princeton ('89) -- Newark ('89)
St. Louis PKWY ('90) -- Salem, NJ ('90) -- UNLV ('91) -- Philadelphia ('91)

Pittsburgh ('91) -- UNLV ('93) -- UNLV ('95) -- UN Iowa ('99) ...
and numerous Chicago suburbs and Illinois communities each year.

Other keynote addresses at the state / city science meetings:

Iowa ('81) --- Oklahoma ('81) --- Wisconsin ('83) --- Illinois ('83) ---
Kentucky ('84) -- Chicago ('84) --- Detroit ('85) --- Utah ('86) --- Arizona ('86)

Los Angeles ('86) -- Wisconsin ('87) --- Arizona ('87) --- Ohio ('88)
Minnesota ('88) --- Kansas City ('88) -- Madison ('88) --- Bronx ('88)

Menomenee, WI ('88) --- Kentucky ('88) --- Georgia ('89) -- SW Virginia ('89)
Ashville, NC ('89) -- Springfield, MO ('89) -- Detroit ('89)

Tucson ('89) -- Texas ('89) --- Puerto Rico ('91) --- Colorado ('92) --- Alabama ('93)

AWARDS

1971 - 1973 - 1975 - 1980 --- College of Education Nominee
EIU Distinguished Faculty Award

1980 Recipient: EIU Distinguished Faculty Award
This is EIU's highest award and was presented to him for his role
"...as a nationally influential science educator ... with witty, lively and interesting classes."

1981: EIU: Oustanding Faculty Merit Award: Teaching Excellence

1982: National Science Teachers Association Ohaus Award
His paper, "Processing/Synectics: Hope for the Timid and the Timeless,"
was cited for its creative, integrated approach to curriculum planning.

1985: Washington Educational Press Award
He received the only First Place Award (from over 500 entries) for Science Feature Articles:
"The Elliptical John Kepler" --- The Science Teacher - November l984

1986: EIU Professional Development Award
Given to selected faculty members for their teaching; research & service record over a five year period.

1986: Leonhardt Fellowship
In August, he was part of an Earthwatch archeological expedition to
Arica, Chile to study paleopathology (autopsy of mummies) of Pre-Columbian Peoples.

1993: Key to the City of Birmingham, ALA
Presented to him as Keynote speaker of the Alabama Science Teachers Association
meeting, and for his lifelong contributions to science education.

1994: EIU Professional Development Award
Given to selected faculty members for their teaching; research
& service record over a five year period.

1996: Nominee - Faculty Merit Award: Research and Creative Activities: -
unique computer / Internet technologies for instruction

1998: EIU International Study Grant -- Dinosaurs in China / Science Education in England

1999: SUNY-Brockport: Outstanding Alumni Award - Professional Achievement