This guide, for use at the secondary level, is designed to create future citizens who will be aware and understanding of their natural environment. Among the subjects discussed are advertising as an ecological cop-out, recycling, optimum environments, hydrophonics, pest control by means of ultrasonic vibrations, the effectiveness of Cottrell…

This two-part curriculum and resource guide provides an undergraduate and graduate level course methodology in contemporary future studies and research. The objectives of this curriculum are to create awareness and appreciation of the fundamental concepts, methods, and limitations of future studies. The curriculum design is conceptual, general in…

An extended replacement of the author's "Techniques of Technical Training," this is a practical guide to classroom methods including grading and assessment of results, and a critical survey of all aids available to teachers. The text deals with the background to training, lesson preparation, lesson presentation, the classroom environment,…

Teaching practices appropriate to 10 different treatments of secondary school beginning German instruction are outlined and discussed. Treatments vary by (1) strategy (traditional; audiolingual or functional skills; and modified audiolingual or functional skills enriched with grammar), (2) type of laboratory (audio passive or tape recorder, audio…

Teaching practices appropriate to 11 different treatments of secondary school beginning French instruction are outlined and discussed. Treatments vary by (1) strategy (traditional; audiolingual or functional skills; and modified audiolingual or functional skills enriched with grammar), (2) type of laboratory (audio passive or tape recorder; audio…

The outdoor lab was planned to serve all grade levels and incorporate all aspects of outdoor education. Ideas for lab and classroom activities are presented for the following subject areas: physical education, elementary grades, physics, chemistry, mathematics, English, industrial arts, home economics, biology, social studies, conservation, art…

The purpose of this study was to determine the critical and pedagogical emphases of professionally superior high school literature teachers. Almost 100 reportedly effective lesson plans (submitted by 63 teachers) were evaluated by the use of a classification scale which was established from five conceptions of literature identified in professional…

This series of 20 Spanish lesson plans is based on the audio motor unit, which is a strategy designed to develop listening comprehension and cultural understanding by means of the interplay of auditory, visual, and motor skills. A set of taped oral commands are first acted out by the teacher and then by the students. The units are meant to be used…

Newspapers and magazines have been used only on a limited basis in the foreign language classroom, because language study has traditionally led to the study of literature. However, this trend is now changing because (1) foreign language curriculum at the secondary school level is expanding to encompass new goals, and (2) the influence from college…

This language-through-literature program is designed to be used as a native language program (language arts/reading readiness), as a second language program, or as a combined native and second language program in early childhood education. Sequentially developed over the year and within each unit, the program is subdivided into 14 units of about…

Volume II of the Project World of Work Packets contains lesson plans for the Industriology, or second, level of the program. It includes units on Papermaking (Grades 7 and 8), and Leathercraft (no grade level specified), by McPherson, Harkins, and Rivest; Oceanography (no grade level specified), by Miller and Beisel; and Home Economics (Grades 7…

This handbook, eleventh in a series for kindergarten and preschool teachers, includes suggestions for activities and games pertaining to reading and mathematics readiness. There are also craft ideas and activities designed to aid in the development of large and small muscles and to encourage creative play. (CS)

The activities and materials in this Project NECESSITIES social studies unit (People, Places and Things) are meant to act as a framework by which the teacher may devise additional content material appropriate to her own students' unique background. The unit, devised for use with primary school students, has as one of its primary emphases the use…

A comprehensive guide on using a newspaper to teach adults in adult and continuing education programs, this publication is a direct result of a Newspaper in the Classroom Production Workshop held in Huntsville, Texas in 1970, and attended by 18 teachers of adult and continuing education. The sections of this teaching guide are as follows: Section…

Presented is the experimental edition of Unit I: Exploring My Environment, which consists of 29 life science curriculum activities intended for the 13-to-15-year-old educable mentally retarded child. The curriculum guide is being used in the final field test prior to revision. Stressed throughout the program are ecological themes, inquiry skills,…