Designed as supplemental material to on-going instruction in the vocational program, this teacher's manual to the Allied Health series is intended to accompany three dictionary booklets (available as CE 024 407-409) for use by handicapped students to help them master the core vocabulary taught in the trade. Information presented in the manual…

These teaching guides and student programmed texts for a secondary-postsecondary-level course in law enforcement are one of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to vocational instruction and curriculum development in a civilian setting. Purpose stated for the 162-hour course is to provide knowledge and skills…

WRITTEN AS AN INTRODUCTORY TEXT FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE FOR CHILDREN WITH DEFECTIVE HEARING, THE BOOK DISCUSSES FACTORS FOUND TO BE HELPFUL IN THE EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL TREATMENT OF DEAF CHILDREN. AFTER SOME BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT DEAFNESS IS PROVIDED, THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS FAMILY, COOPERATION BETWEEN HOME AND SCHOOL, REGIONAL SERVICES FOR DEAF…

These materials for a one-day workshop on reviewing topics relevant to school improvement efforts in career education consist of six activities. Topics covered in the activities are an overview of the workshop, the initial meeting between linkers, diagnosing a school's readiness for change, getting school community people involved in planning for…

This curriculum guide provides teachers of office procedures classes with unit lesson plans and information about resource materials that can be examined, selected, and integrated into the instructional program. Contents are mainly established for the following two types of secondary-level programs: cooperative office education and intensive…

Letter and syllable dice devised for a project in rural Ecuador provide inexpensive, easily reproducible learning materials for practice in basic literary skills. Eleven wooden cubes with six letters on each cube are cast onto a surface and the player constructs words from the letters on the top side of the dice. After a word is formed and…

An extensive list of outdoor education activities that can be integrated into the traditional curriculum is presented in this guide. Activities are arranged by grade (from kindergarten through sixth) and by subject areas taught at each grade level. Subjects covered in grades 1-6 are science, social studies, language arts, mathematics, art, music,…

Eight home economics curriculum areas are presented in this guide, with each area consisting of one or more instructional units as follows: (1) Orientation (orientation to Future Homemakers of America--FHA, FHA in action, parliamentary procedure); (2) Career Exploration (home economics related occupations, locating a job, job success); (3) Child…

Prepared specifically for use in one-week outdoor summer camp programs for migrant children aged 10-15, the twenty bilingual (Spanish and English) educational and recreational activities in the Outdoor Biology Instructional Strategies (OBIS)/Mini-Corps package have been revised to develop language skills as well as an awareness of the outdoor…

Materials presented in this kit form a package containing eighty-six vocational development oriented activities designed primarily for individuals and small groups of underachieving junior high or high school students and is intended to supplement regular classroom activities. Included in the kit are the following: (1) a teacher's guide containing…

A project designed to develop a business ownership and management curriculum to be used at the prevocational and exploratory grade levels (grades 7-9) is reported in four sections. Section 1 contains an overview of the project. Section 2 presents the procedures, which involved the establishment of the research concept and curriculum model, the…

One of twelve instructional units in the Native American Career Education (NACE) program, this unit is intended to introduce Indian junior high school students to the idea that in both traditional and contemporary societies, careers can be divided into clusters according to common features in the jobs performed. In six activities students consider…

This illustrated booklet describes aspects of a college Spanish course in which students play an active role in learning and using the language. Methods and materials take account of real-life situations and situations significant to young people. The learning of Spanish through "fine arts" is discussed, that is, learning the language by using the…

Twenty-four model units are presented to help elementary and secondary students learn about the functions and procedures of the criminal justice system and an individual's rights and responsibilities under the law. The first major section contains eight elementary level units and a bibliography of textbooks and articles upon which some of the…

The Spanish SL strand of unit five for second graders provides the English-dominant child with the structures and vocabulary he will need for effective communication in a bilingual environment. This teacher's guide contains assessment activities, activities for oral language development, and activities for listening and related skills of…