This volume is designed to supplement materials teachers have chosen to use in teaching Colorado and community history. The materials are not a complete history of Colorado or a complete textbook; instead, teachers are provided with 14 teaching activities for use in elementary and secondary social studies or history classes. The book is divided…

The purpose of this Bicentennial handbook is to assist teachers, supervisors, and others in the preparation of programs that will encourage participation in Bicentennial activities while also developing significant knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, and appreciations in the educational process. The handbook contains a compilation of numerous…

This guide is designed to aid social studies classroom teachers develop and implement programs using the community as a social sciences laboratory. The document describes how to prepare a social profile of the community. Based upon the Colorado System-Based Social Science Project which was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the study…

One of twelve instructional units in the Native American Career Education (NACE) program, this unit is intended to help Indian junior high school students understand the economic structure of their own community, similarities and differences between it and the economies of traditional Indian communities, and the implications of adding a new…

One of twelve instructional units in the Native American Career Education (NACE) program, this unit is intended to help Indian junior high school students understand some of the principles which govern cultural change and to show how it is possible to adapt to change while retaining essential cultural elements. The five activities in the unit…