The teaching module is organized to provide students on the K-3 grade level with knowledge, skill, and understanding of the concepts of life roles, settings, and events. The module, divided into three learning sequences, is concerned with the definition of work roles, work settings, and work-linked events. The five activities in sequence 1 deal…

The teaching module is organized to provide students on the 4-6 grade level with knowledge, skill, and understanding of life roles, settings, and events. Using role-playing and a questionnaire, the five activities in the first of three learning sequences revolve around the awareness of the difference between roles and work, leisure and maintenance…

This document contains 21 reading activities for students in kindergarten through grade six. A description and procedure are given for each activity, including a list of materials needed. The activities include a variety of word games, multimedia approaches, and creative writing exercises. (LL)

The purpose of the guide is to assist faculty in the implementation of the concept of career education in grades K-6 of the Muscatine (Iowa) Community Schools. The guide begins with an outline of the philosophy and goals of career awareness and tables listing learning activities for an instructional sequence emphasizing self-awareness followed by…

This booklet is one of a series developed by the Northern Colorado Educational Board of Cooperative Services to make available to teachers ideas designed and tested by other teachers. Many of the ideas are from educational journals as well as from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). The booklet is divided into eight sections:…

An English class at Newtyle Secondary School, Scotland, spent four periods a week for 6 weeks on an anthological project entitled "hotel". Students assumed roles in an imaginary hotel community, wrote advertisements, brochures, and business letters, and participated in interviews, discussions, and dramatizations of specific hotel problems. Besides…

The guide for teachers of primary grade gifted children provides lesson ideas for the individualization of instruction at three levels of maturity in the areas of literature, outlining, oral presentation, citizenship, and other subject areas. Stressed is the gradual development of individual study skills, Noted for literature are basic skills to…

The study attempted to aid 8th grade students with an awareness and appreciation of their environment. A total of 30 volunteers, 7 girls and 25 boys, were used. Ages ranged from 12-15 and the volunteers were a random sampling of the population. Orientation and evaluation sessions were held the day before and after each exercise. Objective and self…

Out of approximately 50 activities which were, for a variety of reasons, not included in the final version of the High School Geography Project course, Geography in an Urban Age, the HSGP staff selected eight which would be useful in many secondary school classrooms. The activities included here are: 1) Operation Bigger Beef (on themes of cultural…

A practical resource guide rather than a theoretical document, the guide contains information on sex education designed to help parents, professionals, and volunteers working with or teaching the mentally retarded. Guidelines for developmental sequences of instruction and suggestions concerning concepts, content, teaching methods and activities,…

Most of the classroom activities suggested here were tried out by teachers with their own classes. Although the activities seem most appropriate for elementary grades, they might also be used by older students, especially those in schools not tied to orthodox curriculums. Many of the activities could be linked to subject matter, but others, like…

A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENTS UPON STUDENT PARTICIPATION AND INTERRELATIONSHIPS. AN EXPERIMENTAL CLASS IN INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY WAS FORMED WITH AN ENROLLMENT OF 144 STUDENTS. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE EXPERIMENTAL CLASS AND OTHER CLASSES WAS THAT THE ROOM SELECTION HAD BEEN PREARRANGED…

The objectives of the American Press Institute Seminar, held in July 1976, were to examine problems related to declining newspaper readership and to discuss ways in which newspapers can be made more interesting and useful. This publication summarizes the major points set forth by each discussion leader and includes selected comments from…

Discussed in this paper is how a multi-faceted research strategy was used to investigate the interacting forces existing in open classrooms. Using behavioral mapping, a standardized naturalistic time-sampling technique for quantifying and describing behavior patterns and use of physical space, day long observations of individual children and…

Two marketing games are described, "Le Marche Francais" and "El Mercado: The Mexican Market Comes to Life in the Spanish Classroom." Both are patterned after a published game entitled "Market: A Simulation Game." The adaptation in each instance relied on simplifying the original game and presenting it in a form understandable to middle school…