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Download full textPennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. – 1980
Offered in this compendium of lessons are suggestions and guidelines for incorporating energy issues into the language arts curriculum at the secondary level. Among the learning strategies employed in these activities are sustained silent reading, debates, literature appreciation, interviews, assigned compositions, and reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Energy, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Allen, Rodney F., Ed. – 1981
Over 60 energy education activities related to mathematics, science, social studies, and English comprise this manual for middle school teachers. Included are issues for discussion, puzzles, science investigations, story writing exercises, and energy cost calculation problems. Among the topics covered in these lessons are energy consumption…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Energy, Energy Conservation, Environmental Education
Peer reviewedRiley, Joseph; Sowinski, K. D. – Science and Children, 1979
Activities which can be used to integrate the teaching of reading with science instruction are presented. These activities are designed to develop encoding and short-term memory skills. (Author/SA)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedFinlay, Joy – Nature Study, 1991
Eight field trip suggestions for the school grounds with activities to enhance such skills as observing, comparing, describing, drawing conclusions, investigating, mapping, developing vocabulary, sequencing events, inferring, interpreting, and writing for all grades and ages. (MCO)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Environmental Education, Field Trips, Interdisciplinary Approach
Atman, Kathryn S.; And Others – 1980
This handbook contains concept-oriented lessons which will help elementary teachers incorporate social studies instruction into their classrooms. The program emphasizes concepts from each of the social science disciplines. Included among these are learning; family; social processes of customs, cooperation, competition, and conflict; rules and…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Basic Skills, Class Activities, Concept Teaching
Judy, Stephen N. – 1979
Offered as a guide for parents, community members, school boards, and administrators, as well as teachers, this book suggests that elementary reading and writing ability is not sufficient preparation for today's world and that literacy instruction cannot be improved without a drastic alteration in the methods most schools employ. Part one…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation
Hamrick, Lesanne – 1981
Organized by sections of the newspaper, this booklet contains activity sheets that can be used to teach basic skills in a variety of subject areas, including language arts, reading, mathematics, social studies, and science. Designed for adaptation to most grade levels, the activity sheets allow students to use different newspaper sections to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Elementary Secondary Education
Cupertino Union School District, CA. – 1980
Developed to promote conservation awareness in elementary students, each of the six grade-level-sequenced activity guides provides: (1) a list of conservation concepts; (2) a criterion-referenced test; (3) a class record sheet; (4) a content guide; and (5) 90 student worksheets (40 for language arts, 20 for mathematics, 20 for social studies and…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Childrens Literature
Lewis, Francione N.; Margold, Jane – 1981
Strategies for devising primary grade academic learning activities that promote cultural diversity are provided. Based on the responsive multicultural basic skills (RMBS) approach, the strategies emphasize skill development, incorporate content from a diversity of cultural groups into all parts of the curriculum, and provide each child with…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, Ethnic Groups
