Describes the Career Oriented Pre-Technical Physics (COPP) curriculum. This curriculum, comprising 29 modules, uses a hands-on, practical, nature to stress the career-vocational aspects of physics. Students design their personal curricula and proceed at their own pace. Evaluative information, comparing this program with other physics curricula, is…

Outlines the lesson content and sequence in a science unit designed for a new Introduction to Vocations program in the State of New Jersey. The vocational program has been designed to help students in grades 7, 8, and 9 become aware of career opportunities. (JR)

This report describes a project to develop and test a number of individualized vocational physics modules designed to be laboratory-oriented, written at the lowest reading level, and supplemented with audiovisual materials. The report includes descriptions of the procedures used to develop, pilot test, and disseminate the materials. Each of the…

The second year of the Coordinated Vocational-Academic Education (CVAE) Academic Curriculum Project, Region One Education Service Center, was devoted to the production of instructional materials and to the field testing of the instructional system. Having as its target population junior high school CVAE students, the project's field test involved…