This agriculture guide, for use at the secondary level, is one of a series of guides, K-12, which were developed by teachers to help introduce environmental education into the total curriculum. Environmental problems are present in every community where agriculture education is offered, and therefore many agriculture teachers have included some…

This art education guide, for use in grades K-3, is one of a series of guides, K-12, that were developed by teachers to help introduce environmental education into the total curriculum. The guides are supplementary in design, containing a series of episodes (minilessons) that are designed to wake students to sights of beauty and harmony in their…

This music guide, for use in grades K-3, is one of a series of guides, K-12, that were developed by teachers to help introduce environmental education into the total curriculum. The guides are supplementary in design, containing a series of episodes (minilessons) that reinforce environmental concepts and theories by developing ecology-related…

The Small College, the innovative unit of California State College, was established to test whether a substantial number of students could accelerate their progress toward the Bachelor of Arts degree. In the process of the experiment, it was hoped that the Small College would develop programs that could be of value to other colleges. The Small…

One method of adapting a social studies curriculum project to meet the specific needs of a school is demonstrated in this document. The curriculum package used is People and Technology developed by the Educational Development Center (EDC). The first part of the document gives an overview of the original curriculum product as developed by EDC,…

This guide for primary teachers of history, geography, and civics provides them with a comprehensive view of the social studies. The emphasis is on the integration of the various social sciences toward the end of producing a student with a well rounded and international outlook. The guide contains five sections: 1) general considerations for the…

The objectives, methods, strategies, content, and resources utilized in this high school course are described in this report. A chronological, topical, interdisciplinary approach is taken toward subject matter ranging from African Antecedents, through The Civil War and Reconstruction, to The Black Revolution. In addition to the general aims of…

This overview of the first year of the La Mancha Project consists of papers on various aspects of the 5-year project to improve the composition instruction in Vermont schools, incorporating workshop and individual student conference techniques, and integrating writing with other academic studies. The papers include discussions of (1) ninth grade…

In this study the languages and culture of the Salish Indians of the northwestern United States are used to examine some of the relationships which obtain between language and culture. An introductory chapter provides justification for the study and discusses the statistical methodology used. In Chapter II the history of the Salish languages is…

The need for experts from related disciplines to aid in learning diagnosis and prognosis is discussed. While support for a multi-causation theory of reading disability has been general for many years, it has not led to action, as reflected in the lack of an interdisciplinary approach to learning disabilities in many schools, reading centers, and…

The rationale for the establishment of a curriculum in the recently founded University of Sussex, England, which does not offer full programs in classical or medieval studies, is examined in this paper. Intent on developing a program which has as its scope "a general background in European culture", the university offers programs,…

The purpose of the institute was: 1) to improve the teaching of Negro students; 2) to prepare Negro and white teachers to assume duties in predominately Negro schools; 3) to meliorate racial prejudice, to provide for Negroes to develop healthy self-images; 4) to prepare educators to deal with problems of race relations; and, 5) to prepare teachers…

This report focuses on the background and development of three sequential courses for grades 8, 9, and 10, and the findings and evaluation on these new instructional materials prepared by the Social Studies Research Committee. Part I of this report makes explicit a set of seven Basic Assumptions about reasons for change in the social studies. Part…

Team teaching offers the benefits of optimizing the distribution of scarce educational resources while moving toward the established goal of individualized instruction. Team teaching is organized horizontally when each member of the teaching team teaches in all subject areas for 1 year. The vertical form prevails when the teachers assume…

Based on the assumption that disadvantaged children suffer from two kinds of deficiencies--cultural and linguistic--this program has been designed to help train teachers who are ill-prepared to understand a child's cultural values or to promote the attainment of standard English. This program contains plans for two kinds of studies--(1)…