Describes an animal laboratory course using male Siamese fighting fish which is inexpensive, compact, and permits students to conduct a wide variety of behavioral investigations. (Author/CK)

This packet is the first of five developed as a set of self-appraisal instruments with which teachers (and others) can systematically examine their instruction methods in communication skills. The packet contains forms for teachers, students, administrators, and parents addressing two levels of specificity: responses to the overall communication…

This packet of materials is a compilation of materials from the "Library Use Instruction" class (LIS 450AC) in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois. This half-credit course, which is designed to prepare librarians to teach library skills to users, reviews the history of bibliographic…

As part of the overall goal of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help provide environmental professionals with the skills required to plan and deliver training programs, this participant reference manual, and its related staff guide, have been developed for conducting a workshop in basic instructional technology. The workshop consists…

This educational guide is designed to aid both the experienced and inexperienced teacher of personal and family finance. It includes the following five units of study: (1) financial planning; (2) coping with credit; (3) protection through life insurance; (4) financial aspects of housing; and (5) making your money grow. Each unit contains teaching…

Designed to encourage students to discover that grammar merely represents the patterns that exist in language, this book presents lessons on 19 grammar points: nouns; pronouns; verbs; subjects; capitalization; end punctuation; commas; sentence fragments; run-on sentences; contractions; possessives; quotation marks; adjectives; adverbs;…

There is offered in this book a year's work in numbers for those boys and girls who know one to ten thoroughly. The book is designed for the children themselves. The practical use of this text in various schools for several years gives evidence by its success that as soon as children can read they should have arithmetics in their hands. [Cover…

This textbook is the fifth volume in a series of readers. New words are defined, and selections are preceded by suggested points to consider.

This textbook is the sixth volume in a series of readers. New words are defined, and selections are preceded by suggested points to consider.

This textbook provides the foundation for a course in mathematics covering arithmetic, algebra, geometry, conic sections, and arithmetic of infinites. An appendix on practical gauging is included, as well as a supplement containing the history of logarithms. [This edition was corrected and improved by Samuel Clark.]

Hegel's teaching is often omitted or considered summarily in political philosophy courses. In order to reduce these difficulties, an introductory discussion of Hegel's political thought in the context of a dialogue is presented. (RM)

This textbook is designed to present to its readers a few examples from the work of the English novelist Charles Dickens and to develop in them a profound interest in his varied writings. Preceding each selection is a note on the book from which the extract has been taken. With some abridgments, the author's diction has been carefully followed. In…

This textbook is an introductory mathematics course. It is a treatise of arithmetic, containing all the practical parts thereof; both in whole numbers, vulgar fractions, and decimals; likewise the theory of numbers, and their principal properties, demonstrated in a plain and easy manner.

This arithmetic textbook uses small concrete numbers to lead pupils to understanding numbers' properties and relations. This work is intended as a connecting link between the Primary and Written Arithmetics of the Author. It presents a mental analysis of Arithmetic adapted to the younger pupils by its easy gradations, and to advanced pupils by its…

Contains a primary source document--President Nixon's resignation letter--and suggests teaching strategies for its use with secondary level students. To refresh students' memories of the events surrounding the letter, a selective chronology is also presented. (RM)