Designed as a resource notebook for persons interested in the Media Curriculum Resource Specialist concept, the manual presents a summary of the activities of the Media Curriculum Institute held at Michigan State University (June 16-20, 1969). The section on administrative considerations provides a script for a slide presentation on an…

An outline of the organization of a local reading resource center, its scope, and its function are presented. Such a center is a combined project of the Office of Education, ERIC/CRIER, and the International Reading Association and is designed to supply teachers, students, laymen, school officials, and researchers with the latest information about…

This set of teaching aids consists of 14 Audubon Nature Bulletins with these titles: Schoolyard Laboratories, How to Lead a Field Trip, Natural Resources in the City, Mysteries of Bird Migration, Rock Stories and How to Read Them, The Ground Water Table, The Terrarium, Some Adventures With Wild Plants Outdoors and Indoors, Plant Propagation in the…

As one in a series of two teacher's guides dealing with environmental education, this publication for grades K-6 contains basic concepts, activities, and questions designed to emphasize the primary role of man as a participant in, rather than master of, his natural surroundings. Topics covered include survival, interdependence, scarcity,…

As one in a series of two teacher's guides dealing with environmental education, this publication for grades 7-12 contains basic concepts, activities, and questions designed to emphasize the primary role of man as a participant in, rather than master of, his natural surroundings. Topics covered include survival, interdependence, scarcity,…

Included are a teacher's guide and two filmstrips for geography instruction to develop greater environmental awareness. Lesson plans are detailed for an area study emphasizing land and water use. Historical reviews and samples of city master plans for the past and present are included for background information. Two filmstrips are explained in…

It is extremely difficult to extend in a natural way the concepts developed in high school geometry to motivate the concepts of trigonometry. To solve this difficultry, the author defines "sensed angles" as ordered pairs of rays and makes appropriate definitions which yield the familiar angle properties of plane geometry. He then shows how this…

This tentative curriculum guide and resource materials publication is designed to aid teachers in using a multi-media approach in presenting a drug abuse education program. It is intended that the material be interwoven into all current curriculum structures, rather than presented as individual and separate units. The K through 12 curriculum is…

Alcohol--its use and abuse--is presented in this resource unit for grades four, five, and six. One of three units on alcohol, smoking, and drugs, this guide for teachers outlines information about the history of alcohol; types of alcohol and alcoholic beverages; physiological, psychological, and socio-economic effects of alcohol on people; and…

This guide developed for use in the secondary schools of New Jersey makes suggestions for venereal disease education which have been tested in a wide variety of classroom situations. The document focuses on the kinds of questions for which young people are seeking answers. An attempt is made to illustrate problems which might become a framework…

This Guide provides teacher resource information for working with the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) unit Position and Motion. This unit continues the teaching program on space-time relations with the introduction of the idea of the reference frame. Introductory material includes discussions of reference frames, measurement in…

In an effort to aid private recreation area developers and operators, and other individuals interested in outdoor recreation, this Bureau of Outdoor Recreation publication lists a number of professional societies and national organizations providing low-cost publications and other aids to planning, development, and operation of outdoor recreation…

This index to materials received by the Department of the Interior in late 1967 and early 1968 contains 838 abstracts of technical articles, books, conference proceedings, directories, documents, reports, speeches, yearbooks, and bibliographies of outdoor recreation literature. Materials are arranged under 5 subject categories: (1) outdoor…

Intended for parents, classroom teachers, church leaders, and recreation leaders in community, civic, social, and youth-serving agencies, this handbook presents over 200 recreational activities for children. Recreational activities are grouped into 13 categories. These include party and picnic plans, mixers, single and double circle games, line…

These materials were written with the aim of reflecting the thinking of The Cambridge Conference on School Mathematics (CCSM) regarding the goals and objectives for school mathematics. These materials are intended to provide children with a variety of informal activities in intuitive geometry in the elementary school. Opportunities are provided…