All materials in the Upper Mississippi River ECO-Center bibliography are classified by Dewey Decimal number, so the listings for each section are organized in ascending order by Dewey number, and within Dewey classification, are roughly alphabetical by author. The bibliography includes some 400 citations with sections on books, curriculum aids,…

Prepared for use with the Research for Better Schools experience-based career education model, this handbook is designed to assist school personnel to formulate concrete and flexible responses to the challenges of developing exploration programs in collaboration with personnel from community resource sites. The handbook is divided into five…

Designed to provide for the improvement of student career development through group guidance instruction, the career guidance component is one of three instructional components of the Research for Better Schools' career education program and is composed of four items. The general information manual provides background information, the rationale…

This set of workshop materials and activities is designed for persons who teach academic and clinical courses to students in professional allied health programs. The workshop consists of a set of short didactic and more extensive experiential activities. The workshop is organized into four main parts. Each part is labeled an activity. The first…

This second of a series of reprints from "Soil Conservation Magazine" presents ideas and ways of incorporating environmental and outdoor education into school programs at all levels. This publication contains 11 such reprints. The titles which indicate the contents are: (1) Jordan River - Utah's Newest Environmental Study Area; (2)…

Designed to motivate a standard English class at the 9th grade level (Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School in Massachusetts), this writing unit centers on a field trip to Gloucester, Massachusetts. Broad lists of problems (tasks) are presented in 3 lists, since the original 3 groups of students (7 or 8 students to a group) were asked to solve…

This paper describes in detail the paper-and-pencil POE (Pelham Odd 'R Even) game, in which units of space are the allocated resources. The game is designed to provide an introduction to the rule structure common to the games of EQUATIONS, WFF 'N PROOF, and ON-SENTS & NON-SENTS. Techniques of playing POE, including goals, solutions, moves, scoring…

In February and May 1973, experimental forms of the mathematics game EQUATIONS were used in two seventh-grade classes which had been participating twice a week in EQUATIONS tournaments since the previous September. The purpose of the experimental games was to gain information as to the kinds of mathematical ideas players choose to concern…

Performance of 237 students in ten eighth-grade mathematics classes was assessed to measure their ability to solve (1) problems which involve only computation, and (2) problems which involve computation and recognition of the relevance of a particular mathematical idea indispensable to the solution of the problem. Pretest and/or posttest data were…

This handbook, prepared in field-test version, is intended to provide in-service teachers with "guidance in the development of the basic concepts of measurement." The basic assumption on which this guidance is based is that "hands-on" experience is the most appropriate method of teaching metric measurement. An additional premise is that students…

The journal synthesizing activity is intended to combine aspects of the formal essay with that of a diary. Activities associated with lecture topics are written up as short journal entries of approximately five typewritten pages and are turned in during the weekly class session at which the related topic is being discussed. The journal project…

The primary purpose of this pamphlet is to promote a better understanding of outdoor education and its value in schools. Five reasons are given for the inclusion of outdoor education in the elementary school program: (1) learning takes place most effectively through direct experience--beginning with concrete activities and letting useful…

The broad purpose of the Western States Small Schools Project (WSSP), an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III project, is to improve education in small rural schools. Undertaken by WSSP, SPURS attacks the lack of specialized education services and general lag in implementing improved educational practices in rural areas. A long-range…

The basic approach of this manual for trainers of welfare aides is the use of the trainee's experience and the conscious analysis of it. It encourages people to look at their job performance within the framework of experiencing, identifying, analyzing, and generalizing. Hints are given as to how to develop understanding of the organization, how to…

A description is given of a learning-centers program for classroom organization in which teacher-directed activities are minimized in favor of semidirected and learner-directed ones. Information concerning equipment and physical arrangement and references to sources describing motivational techniques for a listening center, a self-selection…