This curriculum guide of seventh grade materials for United States history, colonization through reconstruction, is prepared for the Carroll County Public Schools. Learning activities of the units are based on material available in the Carroll County Schools. The purpose of the program is to have students discover meaning and relevance in the…

Developed for the Carroll County Public Schools, this Learning Activity Package (LAP) for grade 8 offers a way to provide individualized learning about China before the Communists came to power. Learning activities are based on curriculum and audiovisual materials available in the Carroll County Schools. The focus of the unit is on the life styles…

The lessons were written to help trainer agents prepare aides for work with families in Extension's Expanded Food and Nutrition Program. The purpose is to enrich the aides' background in food preparation and to provide practical teaching methods that can be used in presenting food preparation information to families. The 21 lessons are an…

The main emphasis of the career education world of work curriculum guide (K-1), developed by the Weatherford Elementary Schools, is to inform and orient kindergarten and first grade students to the concept of work rather than prepare them for a specific career. This is achieved through the development of 22 career education concepts that are to be…

As part of the series of student materials developed by the Environmental Education Project at Florida State University, this volume contains three instructional units on urban environment. Designed for upper-elementary and secondary students, the materials require only low-level reading abilities while insisting on high-level participation. The…

Designed for a K-12 curriculum, this curriculum guide provides 18 lessons on the causes, effects, and resolution of violence and disruption. The series of lessons are divided into three categories of six lessons written for kindergarten through grade 4, grades 5 through 9, and grades 9 through 12. Each lesson includes educational objectives,…

This unit, one in a set of elementary teacher-developed materials for geography, is on land use in cities. It contains follow-up activities to the "Cities at Work" filmstrips, which are part of the "Our Working World" program published by Science Research Associates (SRA). The filmstrips deal with resource allocation and zoning problems in cities.…

Personal decisions and life-styles and how they have social and demographic consequences is the focus of the grades 7-12 population education unit developed for the Baltimore public schools. The unit attempts to have the student see himself as part of his present family unit and as a decision maker who will make choices about his own future…

This unit contains a number of learning activities which can be incorporated into junior-high environmental education classes. Objectives are to make students aware of local environmental problems and clarify their personal values about environmental issues. Along with general kinds of land-use problems and historical overviews, the unit focuses…

The three sample mini-functional units are part of a system developed for tutor training and support for adult literacy programs. A key component of the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides (designed as training and reference aids for tutors) and Functional Content Units (intended to help tutors combine…

The subjects for this study were 128 girls and 156 boys in public schools. Teachers were randomly assigned to one of three treatments designated active games, passive games, and traditional activities. Subjects were selected as having limited sight vocabularies based on the results of the Sight Vocabulary Recognition Test pretest. Data were…

This volume is the first in a series of 29 coordinated MINNEMAST units in mathematics and science for kindergarten and the primary grades. Intended for use by kindergarten teachers, this unit guide provides a summary and overview of the unit, a list of materials needed, and descriptions of six groups of activities. The purposes and procedures for…

This volume is the fifth in a series of 29 coordinated MINNEMAST units in mathematics and science for kindergarten and the primary grades. Intended for use by kindergarten teachers, this unit guide provides a summary and overview of the unit, a list of materials needed, and descriptions of four groups of activities. The purposes and procedures for…

This volume is the twelfth in a series of 29 coordinated MINNEMAST units in mathematics and science for kindergarten and the primary grades. Intended for use by first-grade teachers, this unit guide provides a summary and overview of the unit, a list of materials needed, and descriptions of four groups of lessons. The purposes and procedures for…

This volume is the nineteenth in a series of 29 coordinated MINNEMAST units in mathematics and science for kindergarten and the primary grades. Intended for use by second-grade teachers, this unit guide provides a summary and overview of the unit, a list of materials needed, and descriptions of five groups of activities. The purposes and…