Junior high students examine selected primitive societies in this quinmester course. The concept of culture is defined and studied to expose similarities and differences between primitive and contemporary man and civilizations, not simply for greater understanding but also to permit further insight into American civilization. Both types of…

This conceptual unit in geography at the kindergarten level consists of a student Workbook and Pictorial Test, and a Teacher Manual. The objective of the unit is to develop the concept labeled "habitat", or the idea that the earth is man's home. Teaching strategies include questioning techniques, an analysis of pictures, classroom…

A world studies elective course for grades 10-12 analyzes the political, economic, social, philosophical, scientific, technological, and psychological issues in order to provide a framework for arriving at meaningful predictions about twenty-first century life. Course goals indicate that students will explore some of the possibilities for man in…

The publication is an outline of a course (grades 10-12) which introduces the student to the basic techniques of the sociologist and to selected areas of sociological study such as population, family, urban and rural living, race relations and crime. Some of the course objectives are as follows: 1) to investigate the ways in which human societies…