This training manual is designed to introduce and assist naval personnel in the conversion from the English system of measurement to the metric system of measurement. The book tells what the "move to metrics" is all about, and details why the change to the metric system is necessary. Individual chapters are devoted to how the metric system will…

DESCRIBED ARE PROCEDURES AND LABORATORY MATERIALS WHICH ARE OUTGROWTHS OF A RESEARCH PROJECT OF THE SOUTHEASTERN EDUCATION LABORATORY FOR THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE TO DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS IN GRADES 7, 8, AND 9. PART 1 DEALS WITH THE CRITERIA USED IN DEVELOPING PROCEDURES AND MATERIALS FOR USE WITH EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED. INCLUDED ARE (1) THE…

THE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM ENDEAVORED TO MAKE UP FOR ANY LACK IN THE HOME THAT PREVENTED A CHILD FROM BEING READY FOR KINDERGARTEN. THIS BULLETIN ACQUAINTED PARENTS WITH THE PROGRAM AND WITH THE NEEDS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN. ENTRANCE WAS DEPENDENT ON CERTAIN HEALTH REQUIREMENTS AND THE PARTICIPATION OF A PARENT ONE DAY A WEEK. THE 2-, 3-, AND SOME OF…

THE EMPHASIS UPON VISION RATHER THAN THE SAVING OF VISION HAS BROUGHT ABOUT A CHANGE IN DETERMINATION OF CLASS PLACEMENT. IN PUBLIC SCHOOL, CHILDREN WITH VISUAL LIMITATIONS ARE AIDED BY FOUR KINDS OF PROGRAMS--(1) RESOURCE CLASSES FOR CHILDREN WITH VISUAL LIMITATIONS, (2) BRAILLE RESOURCE CLASSES FOR CHILDREN WHOSE LOSS OF VISION WARRANTS BRAILLE…

DOCUMENTS IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION COLLECTION ARE INDEXED BY SUBJECT AND NUMBER. PART I OF THE INDEX CONTAINS A WORD LIST COMPILED FROM INDEX TERMS GENERATED FROM THE 1,000 DOCUMENTS IN THE COLLECTION. PART II IS A SEQUENTIAL LISTING OF EACH DOCUMENT WITH A COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CITATION FOR EACH DOCUMENT. (HM)

Presented are guidelines and strategies for community-level energy education. The main emphasis is upon practical self-help activities in the classroom and the community. The guidebook has three major sections. Section I provides an overview of types of energy education programs and presents models for project development and curriculum planning.…

This publication contains analyses of elementary and secondary social studies textbooks, supplementary classroom materials, and teacher resource materials. The purpose of the publication is to provide analyses of curriculum materials which will allow K-12 school teachers, administrators, curriculum coordinators, and college methods teachers to…

BORN FREE is a project designed as a collaborative effort of university-based counseling psychologists and field-site educators to reduce career-related sex stereotyping in 14 educational institutions. This report describes the evaluation of the five-day 1978 National Summer Institute, a staff development training workshop for educational leaders.…

One of a series of materials developed by Project APT (Administrators, Parents, and Teachers/Assessment, Programing, and Training), a program designed to foster home/school coordination in educational planning and program inplementation for severely mentally retarded and/or multiply handicapped students; the booklet provides the Developmental…

Presented are environmental education lessons adapted for use in the junior high schools of Pinellas County, Florida. This manual is organized according to six conceptual schemes: interrelationships, heredity and environment, change, effects of population growth, finite resources, and environmental responsibility. Outlines of related activities…

Energy-related concepts are the subject of mathematics problems in this supplementary workbook for secondary school students. Exercises involving light, heat, motion, and energy conservation assist students in understanding whole numbers, decimals, fractions, ratios, proportions, percents, and the creation and interpretation of graphs. The…

The 15 articles in this booklet were written for the twelfth Course by Newspaper, "Energy and the Way We Live." Courses by Newspaper is a program presenting college-level courses to the public through the cooperation of newspapers and participating colleges. Other components of this course are the Reader/Study Guide (SO 012 724) and the…

This document presents information on the physical and human geography of the Netherlands. In this third revised edition, the contents have been brought up-to-date and expanded. In addition, sections on physical planning and environmental problems have been added. The booklet is intended for use by geography classroom teachers and students at…

This USMES unit challenges students to find the best way to learn or teach someone else certain things. The teacher resource book for this unit contains five sections. The first section describes the USMES approach to student-initiated investigations of real problems, including a discussion of the nature of the USMES "challenges" and of classroom…

This USMES unit challenges students to collect and maintain a variety of animals in the classroom. The teacher resource book for the School Zoo unit contains five sections. The first section describes the USMES approach to student-initiated investigations of real problems, including a discussion of the nature of the USMES "challenges" and of…