Art concepts are surveyed from the beginning of recorded time of the stone age to present day contemporary society in this curriculum guide for grades seven through nine. Since art reflects culture, the student interprets the past, analyzes the present, and projects the future by using art as a medium. Objectives are for the student to identify…

The curriculum guide is designed to integrate elementary school curriculum with career education concepts in the primary grades. The major objectives are to acquaint the students with careers in order to develop a positive awareness of and attitude toward work, to appreciate the contributions that they can make, and to develop basic skills for…

The curriculum guide is designed to integrate elementary school curriculum with career education concepts. The major objectives are to acquaint the students with careers in order to develop a positive awareness of and attitude toward work, to appreciate the contributions that they can make, and to develop basic skills for entry into the work…

The curriculum guide attempts to assemble select activities that represent skills related to careers in science. These learning activities are designed to give junior and senior high school students opportunities to explore concepts and processes in many science-related careers. The broad areas covered are biology, chemistry, physics, and earth…

The career education curriculum guide, contrary to its title, encompasses grades 3-6; other grade levels will be treated in forthcoming guides. Material in the guide is divided into two levels: grades 3-4 and grades 5-6. Five concepts underlying the guide's structure are: the self and environment; education and training; economics; employment and…

The guide contains a secondary school social studies unit for career development designed to be team-taught with the guidance counselor. The five-week unit aims at providing students with a certain knowledge of themselves and their own occupational preferences and potential through a series of discussions, readings, games, films, exercises, tests,…

This report, prepared by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, provides philosophical and psychological background and teaching guidelines for the kindergarten classroom. The guide is divided into six sections which encompass different aspects of kindergarten education: (1) the philosophy and psychology of kindergarten education, and the roles…

One of several investigations comprising a study of students' needs related to school vocational services in a three-county area, the document reports the results of a survey designed to include all senior high school teachers in 10 schools. The questionnaire is a 21-item instrument developed to provide information on the extent to which teachers…

The second unit of the grade four level of the FICSS series (Focus on Inner City Social Studies -- see SO 008 271) continues the study of man through cultural awareness of the diverse groups of people comprising America's heritage. Focusing specifically on American Indians, Afro-, Mexican-, and Asian-Americans, and European Immigrants, the unit is…

This activity supplement is intended to accompany the Puedo Leer/I Can Read Teacher's Guide for initial reading in Spanish for bilingual children. The supplement, which consists of a teacher's guide and a set of charts on card stock, provides suggestions for a wide variety of pre-reading activities and approaches, which expand on the activities…

A College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB)-sponsored survey presents data derived from the questionnaire responses of a representative sample of 1,814 secondary school seniors who took the CEEB Latin Achievement Test during the 1965-66 academic year. Written analyses of questionnaire data, along with many supporting graphs and charts, offer…

To help prepare the junior high student for personal and social adjustment, units and activities are geared to provide functional learning experiences in situations that will benefit the educable mentally retarded in his daily life. Units covered in grades 7, 8, and 9 include social studies, functional English, functional mathematics, functional…

The report in this issue of Curriculum Bulletin documents extra-curricular and after school activities adopted by Canadian urban communities in Ontario to combat cultural disadvantagement and reading deficiencies among inner-city children, pre-school through junior high school ages. The projects described in the metropolitan areas of Hamilton,…

Intended as a supplement to the social studies program in the kindergarten through the second grade, this bulletin suggests teaching materials and activities in Puerto Rican studies to provide young children with knowledge of the history, customs, values, and contributions of the Puerto Rican people. The introduction contains objectives for pupils…

This study guide on population, based on the official report of the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future appointed in March 1970, is designed for students but is also pertinent for discussion groups and seminars in the adult community. Major objectives emphasize learning how population actions change the size and character of…