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

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

Designed as a 6- to 9-week unit of instruction at the middle or junior high school level, this course offering represents a segment of a comprehensive course in orientation to vocational occupations. (When this comprehensive course is completed, a student may enroll in one or more of the three elective courses in distributive education providing…

The document contains three reports--annual, interim, and evaluation--on a project to organize resources for the planning and implementation of long range improvements in a comprehensive career education program. The report of the placement component describes activities which include an exiting placement program, career counseling, and the…

"The Mexican Experience" is a two-volume cultural resource for use at the secondary level. It may also be used at college and adult levels for introductory cultural awareness. It offers an instructional package on Mexican culture, stressing an art-architecture perspective with content ideas applicable to classes in Spanish, English as a…

The curriculum guide is designed to provide students with realistic training in business/clerical/sales theory and practices within the secondary educational framework and to prepare them for entry into an occupation or continuing postsecondary education. Each unit plan consists of a description of the area under consideration, estimated hours of…

The primary intent of the field tested unit is to develop self-awareness, career awareness, and economic awareness for students in the third grade. Lesson topics are: interdependency between the child, the family, and the community for needs that are economic; interdependency between occupations within a community; ways in which members of a group…

This document is the fourth in a series of 12 early childhood program descriptions compiled by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. The program described here is the Responsive Program developed by Glen Nimnicht at the Far West Lab in Berkeley, California. The Responsive Model is a preschool through third grade program…

This guide for teachers of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds focuses on the observation and direction of learning through play. Each chapter covers a specific curriculum area: Block Building, The Graphic Arts, Woodworking, Manipulative Materials, Modeling Materials, Paste and Collage, Sand, Water, Food, Housekeeping, Music and Movement, Physical Activities,…

This publication consists of seven lists of resources for educators, parents, and others interested in the care of children. Each list consists of selected materials from commercial and noncommercial publishers and some documents available through the ERIC system. Most entries include a brief annotation, the publisher's (or source's) name and…

The book contains a series of career-oriented ideas for social studies teachers, contributed by teachers in the East Providence Career Education Project. The ideas are the basis of the interdisciplinary contracting system for grades 7-12 in three pilot schools. They are classified by occupational clusters, which the teachers can use to incorporate…

This book is designed as an aid to teaching the elementary language arts. In part one. "Foundation of Language Arts," the language arts program is introduced and defined, the duties of the language arts teacher are described, various influences affecting students' performance in the language arts program are defined, the understanding of language…

This curriculum guide is a rough draft for a suggested course of study in environmental science. This draft was developed by science teachers from the Greater New York area and was designed for the ninth grade, but could be used for any grade level with modifications. This course of study suggests an interdisciplinary approach to studying the…

The 12 activities for a science careers curriculum are briefly outlined in the introductory section of the document and involve writing, discussion, films, research, interviews, reading assignments, field trips, and speakers. The body of the document consists of: a list of careers related to science and technology, science career-related cassette…

A result of a State-funded workshop sponsored by Northwestern State University (Louisiana), the exemplary career education curriculum guide is designed for elementary grades K through six. An introductory chapter is followed by a chapter on resources which identifies specific materials (films, filmstrips, records, kits, books, pictures, and…