Prepared for the 1971 National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Annual Meeting, this collection of ideas, activities, and unit plans from the Mounds View Environmental Education Project would be useful for junior and senior high school teachers and curriculum planners. Content includes: (1) a senior high course outline and daily lesson plans…

Describes the development, implementation, and field testing of Virginia's three-year Clusters Approach to Career Orientation (CACO) Project designed to generate an activity-based, across-the-board curriculum for pre-exploratory students relating to appropriateness in occupational choice. (TA)

Outlines the program, policies, and objectives of the Constitutional Rights Foundation with regard to legal and citizenship education of young people. Describes local, national, and regional programs of the Foundation, community education, classroom materials, inservice teacher programs, and student workshops. A list of Foundation publications is…

Presents a unit consisting of 4 lessons which focus on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s childhood, his adult life and family, his civil rights work, and the national holiday which commemorates his birthday. Each lesson features specific objectives, learning activities, and instructional guidelines for the teacher. (TRS)

This article provides an overview of how oral language and writing activities may be integrated into a typical kindergarten through sixth-grade social studies curriculum. (JDH)

Describes content of the "Career Information in the Classroom: Workshop Guide for Infusing the Occupational Outlook Handbook." The "Guide" provides detailed information on conducting workshops that will increase a teacher's ability to make career exploration part of the curriculum. Highlights from each of its chapters are described. (CT)

Outlines a K-12 scope and sequence model for technology education that has as its integrating thread the concept that technology is fundamental to human survival and that its study leads to an understanding of culture. (SK)

How easy is it for schools to discuss the question of language across the curriculum? What impact do such discussions have on more general aims, and how are they affected by existing ideas about language and learning? Authors examines teacher strategies in the light of a course called Writing Across the Curriculum Project. (Editor/RK)

Details are given concerning instructional materials on basic geometry concepts for secondary school students. The contents of the learning package and format of the material are described, samples from accompanying workbooks are presented and discussed, and enrichment activities are suggested. (DT)

Discussed a learning delivery system, representing a significant departure from tradition, designed to meet the educational needs of rural people, ordinarily unable to finance a full time education. (RK)

Suggested activities to increase children's awareness of themselves, their families, human emotions, conflicts, and cooperation. (ST)

Presents the view that laboratory work has been overemphasized. Need to critically examine effects on students of this practice. Some objections to current laboratory hours include irrelevance to student's future careers, recipe-type experiments, and conflicts with main academic objectives. (PS)

Describes a revised curriculum that emphasizes auto-tutorial study through the use of a wide range of mediated learning materials. (Editor)