This resource guide is designed to help educators find curricula, multimedia resources, and other educational materials that can enhance the teaching of environmental education in a variety of settings. Curriculum guides and other educational materials listed in this guide were evaluated by classroom teachers, content experts, and environmental…

Describes the development of a unit on alcohols for high school chemistry students. Learning activities were heavily based on previous experiences. (PS)

The inherent characteristics of industrial arts can provide many opportunities for promoting the developmental growth of children. Industrial arts curricular activities and learning experiences that are based on the student's developmental tasks can foster self realization and personal growth. (SK)

The two-part essay explores problems of developing history curricula and provides a specification for building history curricula that confronts problems about the nature and value of history. Propositions which underlie the specification are also presented. (KC)

Suggests consumer economic activities which can help elementary and secondary social studies students understand how to make wise consumer decisions. Also presents a directory of organizations and activities which distribute free materials related to the activities. (Author/DB)

This article includes information about the development of a rubric originally designed to assess the quality of curricular units that are submitted annually to the National Association for Gifted Children Curriculum Division's Curriculum Competition. Information about four different, but related, uses for the rubric is provided. (Contains…

The Multiple Menu Model is a practical set of planning guides that can assist developers of curriculum for gifted students to combine content with instructional strategies. Planning menus in the areas of knowledge, instructional objectives, student activities, instructional strategies, instructional sequences, and artistic modification and a…

Reviews a curriculum resource unit entitled "Life Expressions: West African Art in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum," produced by the museum and adaptable to any grade level. The unit depicts art in its cultural context and allows students to take in information in their preferred learning style. (MDM)

Buchenwald offers an omnipresent reminder that future success of political and economic reunification is related to slow, but necessary, healing of national wounds over dual legacies of Hitler and the Cold War. In midst of painful transitions, the living memorial of Buchenwald holds promise as a place where German youth might continue arduous…

A United Kingdom teacher training course specializing in the exceptionally able child is described. The paper focuses on the course's research-based themes, students' reasons for taking the course, students' achievements, and examples of the types of learning experiences developed for exceptionally able children ages 3-15. (JDD)

Presents a proposal of what is possible and necessary for teaching, studying, and learning the "Bible" with children, youth, and adults of religious congregations. Looks to scripture to gain clues regarding its important role in the spiritual formation of believers of all ages. Offers examples of ways to implement effective strategies…

Offers identifiable milestones to help educators effectively use the Web to engage students in advanced thinking. Highlights include finding interesting Web pages, human connectedness that the Web makes possible, supplementing the current curriculum, designing goal-based Web activities, using new knowledge to promote higher-order thinking, using a…

Describes radio applications for education and summarizes radio activities for elementary and secondary school classrooms. Discusses teaching the history of radio communications; AM-FM radio; international shortwave broadcasts; NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) weather service broadcasts; scanner radios; and amateur radios.…

Explores changing curricular designs and the differences between traditional and authentic learning. Identifies significant design features of authentic design, and provides examples of these features with instructional units. (AEF)