Because teenage girls often have the poorest eating practices of any age group, and because they need more essential nutrients than at any other time of their lives except during pregnancy and lactation, the purpose of the unit, intended for American Indian girls, is to instill in them the rules of good nutrition and good eating habits. The unit…

The Senior Citizens and Parents as Resources for the Classroom (SPARC) project is designed to maximize the learning potential of students. Through the SPARC project, parent and community volunteers, guided by professional educators, can help to meet student needs. This elementary school manual has been compiled by and for the teachers and…

Selected from the National Instructional Materials Information System (NIMIS)--a computer based on-line interactive retrieval system on special education materials--the bibliography covers 23 materials for teaching movement exploration and locomotor skills to handicapped students at all educational levels. Entries are presented in order of NIMIS…

This catalog is a collection of computer programs which have been designed and used as curricular support in Business Education on the college level. It is intended for use by the business instructor who wishes to initiate the use of the computer as an instructional aid in his courses. Discipline areas covered include: (1) accounting, (2) finance,…

Five major sections in this directory present information from the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning (ABSEL), including (1) simulations/experiential materials, (2) course descriptions, (3) ABSEL interest directory, (4) ABSEL membership directory, and (5) ABSEL facts and figures. Section 1 contains short summaries of…

A card game designed to accompany "Andere Lander, Andere Sitten," a self-instructional unit for second-year high school students of German, is presented. The object of the game is to go through, in the proper order, a day of eating meals while traveling in Germany. There are cards for each event. The rules of the game are presented, and the cards,…

THE MAJOR OBJECTIVE OF THE ARTICULATED MEDIA PROJECT (AMP) WAS TO DESIGN PROTOTYPE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR USE IN PREPARING EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATORS IN SUCH A WAY THAT CONCEPTS AND REALITY-ORIENTED ADMINISTRATIVE SITUATIONS WERE JOINED DURING THE DESIGN PROCESS. THE STUDY ALSO ATTEMPTED TO PROJECT POTENTIAL USES AND EXTENSIONS OF SPECIFIC…

Patterns and directions are given for making self-help toys for cerebral palsied and other handicapped children. The toys are designed to entertain and to develop muscle coordination and finger-elbow dexterity, teach self-help skills such as dressing, stimulate visual perception, encourage hand grasps and eye-hand coordination, motivate speech,…

Experiential learning techniques, widely used in the United States in the field of intercultural communication, can be modified for use by individuals from other cultures. The experiential learning approach involves the use of exercises that parallel real life situations, involve all participants, require active participation, provide instant…

Designed to provide units of study that would be: relevant to American Indian students, a contribution to the eradication of misconceptions and fallacies associated with the Indian, and materials that are easily accessible and easily incorporated in existing educational programs, this social studies curriculum unit on Indians of Canada presents…

This paper gives an overview of the creative writing program at BOCES III Institute for Gifted and Talented Youth during the 1974 and 1975 summer sessions. There were five major activity areas in the workshop: training in sensory awareness; writing, accompanied by criticism and revision; editing and publishing a book; literary analysis; and…

This tutor's handbook is designed to assist people working with elementary and junior high school students who have learning problems. Emphasis is on (a) building a good relationship between tutor and tutee; (b) describing a profile of children with learning problems; (c) giving descriptions of common reading problems, general tips for tutoring,…

This kit for teachers is designed to help students at the elementary and secondary levels improve their reading skills. The kit is divided into twelve sections. The first section describes in detail how to best put the materials found in this aid to use. Sections two through six are devoted to the word-recognition techniques of sight word…

This is an annotated guide to English language instructional materials useful for both native and non-native speakers of English at primary and secondary levels. Materials relate to and are available in Great Britain; prices and addresses of publishers and suppliers are included. The sections cover: (1) Visual aids specifically designed for…

This unit, one in a set of teacher-developed materials for elementary geography, emphasizes that children act as geographers in activities that use a classroom as the environment. Exploration and discovery through game playing and maps are the techniques used for instruction as an alternative approach to content teaching by discussion. The first…