This curriculum model has been developed by the United States Department of Education to provide a flexible framework for classroom-based drug abuse prevention efforts from kindergarten through grade 12. An introductory chapter discusses the role of prevention, how to use the curriculum model, identifying students at risk for drug use, and…

Designed to support curriculum and to facilitate instruction and learning at the sixth grade level, this annotated bibliography contains materials found in the library at the Brawley Middle School in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. To foster cooperative planning between teacher and librarian, the bibliography provides sample activities and lessons…

The curriculum guide is intended to provide a strong, comprehensive preschool program for children with hearing impairments at the special school, the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School (District of Columbia). The curriculum offers the following: (1) necessary routines for organizing the school day; (2) intensive, ongoing use of…

This guide is designed to promote and assist in the integration of the civics curriculum, required for immigrant legalization, into the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) curriculum through both curriculum development and program planning. The guide has two major parts. The first part is a listing, in a suggested sequence, of civics/ESL…

This packet of materials from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner's English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) workplace literacy program, defunct since the newspaper's closing, contains the following items: an overview of the program; a list of units and subunits; two sample lesson plans; teacher guidelines about evaluation and progress; lists of specific…

This document contains the Guidelines for Teaching Science-Related Social Issues adopted in 1982 by the National Council for the Social Studies and 10 examplar lessons each keyed to particular guidelines and drawing upon contemporary issues. The premise upon which the guidelines are based is that science is a social issue and that the examination…

Developed as part of a 110-hour high school course on general metals, this 50 minute lesson is designed to enable students to: (1) name the parts of the tape rule; (2) determine what size tape rule to use for a given task; (3) measure correctly with a tape rule or ruler; and (4) dimension correctly for a piece of metal or wood. The lesson plan…

As part of a 90-hour community college course in sheet metal working, this 50-minute lesson was designed to enable a student to: (1) identify and use right and left hand aviation snips; (2) cut out a 6-inch round opening in a piece of sheet metal using aviation snips; and (3) cut out a 6-by-6 inch square opening in a piece of sheet metal using…

The purpose of this guide is to present dance education as a discipline and to encourage student participation in a wide range of dance activities. The unit, "Rationale/Philosophy/Goals," contains an introduction to the program, a rationale, and overall goals. "Scope/Sequence/Strategies," presents a chart which lists basic…

This weekly syllabus designed for teachers in small schools in Australia uses the Kodaly singing-based approach to teach music skills to students in primary years one through seven. The program divides instruction into four units: year one, years two-three, years four-five, and years six-seven. Teaching plans for each unit contain learning…

This book is for both teachers in training and those already in the classroom. It covers the underlying skills necessary for curriculum development, focusing on initiating, developing, implementing, and evaluating written lesson and unit plans. In addition, the book presents a wide range of instructional strategies, from the lecture method to…

This curriculum guide is a systematic instructional strategy designed to enhance the intrinsic motivation of learning disabled adolescents. The complete strategy encompasses three major phases. Phase P (Preparing for Challenges) describes steps in preparing the classroom environment and presenting program goals to students. Phase A (Attacking…

This document outlines the content and objectives of the grade 4 social studies curriculum of the Lebanon School District, Lebanon, New Hampshire. The core of the program is on the town of Lebanon, New Hampshire and the state of New Hampshire, past and present, beginning with the student's community and expanding into a state-wide study. Most of…

This curriculum guide, which was written to meet the mandate requiring all vocational programs in Texas to provide 30 classroom hours of instruction in entrepreneurship, is intended to introduce entrepreneurship as a viable career choice and foster an attitude conducive to success as an entrepreneur. Addressed in the individual units of the guide…

This sourcebook contains a series of lesson plans for remediating pragmatic problems for students in preschool through grade six. Introductory material describes the concept and development of pragmatics (the ability to use language as a tool), provides an observation checklist for clinicians to use in identifying specific types of pragmatic…