The publication outlines 19 award winning economic education projects for use on levels K through college. The projects have been judged original and interesting to students and have met contest criteria by describing class situation, scope and sequence, goals, motivational devices, teaching techniques, samples of student work, culmination…

Adaptible to the regular home economics curriculum for the middle school (grades 7, 8, and 9), these resource units are designed to actively involve the student in learning activities and provide hands-on experiences. Three units of instruction are included and focus on the following topics: food; self, family, friends, and careers; and personal…

A humanistic education curriculum program is described. The major objective of the project is to enhance the self-concept of each student. The interdisciplinary humanistic curriculum contains six components. The first component describes Unified Studies departmental ideas, beliefs, and goals which will further humanistic objectives, including…

Part of a geography series which stresses understanding of the environment through mastery of specific skills and concepts, the secondary level textbook examines how and why different environments have changed through time. The book is presented in eight chapters organized around the three main themes of change in local areas, land use, and the…

One of the twelve instructional units in the Native American Career Education (NACE) program, this unit is intended to help Indian junior high school students review and apply the knowledge which they have gained in the preceding eleven units. In three activities students consider and discuss general concepts dealt with in previous units, do…

The unit contains a teacher's guide, student reading materials, and data sheets about a variety of worldwide demographic and economic variables. Designed for students in junior high through college, its goals are to encourage students to analyze the causes and consequences of world population and economic trends, and to detect interrelationships…

One of a series of pamphlets about effects of the American Revolution in Georgia, this document reviews Georgia's economy during the years 1775-1789. It can be used as supplementary reading or a two-week unit for junior or senior high school students. A brief teacher's guide is included. The main part of the pamphlet relates the political and…

The pamphlet discusses changes in the political leadership of Georgia during the Revolutionary War years. It is one of a series of documents about the American Revolution in Georgia. Designed for junior or senior high school students, it can serve as supplementary reading or a two-week unit. A teacher's guide is included. Political development in…

The three-week unit dealing with important moments in life when values are learned is designed to be incorporated into an eighth grade English language arts class. It is part of a series of guides developed by teachers at an institute conducted by the Public Education Religion Studies Center at Wright State University. A major objective of the…

The unit's instructional and assessment activities focus on the community. Specific attention is given to four spiraling questions pertaining to the individual, his alternatives, his initiation of change, and the results of change. Focus, materials, and objective for each activity are in Spanish and English; teacher instructions are in Spanish…

Focusing on the community, this Spanish as a Second Language unit provides the English-dominant child with the structures and vocabulary needed for effective communication in a bilingual environment. The instructional and assessment activities help the child build concepts in his new language through formal and informal language experiences.…

The resource booklet contains readings and activities for British secondary school world affairs classes. The material lends itself toward incorporation into various curricula, including history, geography, social studies, humanities, environmental studies, language and literature, home economics, math, and science. Subject matter focuses on…

The teaching guide is designed to aid high school history and social studies teachers as they develop and implement programs on the Holocaust. The document is presented in four chapters. Chapter I explains that Holocaust refers to the persecution and genocide of Jews and political opponents of the Nazi regime in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.…

Exercises and activities for incorporating career education into the elementary school curriculum (K-6) are contained in this teacher's manual. Activities are developed for the primary, primary/intermediate, and intermediate levels for language arts (83 activities), mathematics (53), science (32), social studies (91), related arts/fine arts (68),…

Designed to demonstrate how changing value systems affect individuals, the social studies guide suggests materials, resources, and activities to classroom teachers. The major objective of the guide is to help students gain in maturity and develop the ability to deal with values. The document is presented in 27 chapters. The first five chapters…