Environ County is a simulation gaming activity designed to provide insight into regional planning. Developed as a learning experience for decision makers and public participants, the simulation emphasizes the integration of political, social, economic, and environmental issues in the resolution of five complex sociotechnical problems. The game…

Intended for the use of curriculum developers, instructors, and others concerned with planning and conducting vocational and technical education programs, this federally funded interim report presents the results of the task inventory analysis survey conducted by the project staff in the secretarial science occupations. In order to develop a…

A demonstration program to help local public agencies to train rehabilitation specialists is the focus of this report. The project objectives of the project were: (1) to develop a curriculum to educate and train housing rehabilitation specialists, (2) to test the curriculum in the classroom with three groups of students (n=75), and (3) to publish…

Asian art collections held in twenty-one states and in Canadian museums and galleries, representing a cross-section of study material available to the public, are listed in this guide. Some of the collections listed are broad in scope while others are confined to a special country. Asia as represented in the publication is defined as including all…

Background information and teaching suggestions are offered in this guide for implementing human rights ideas in existing social studies curriculum at the elementary and secondary grade levels in the United States. Emphasis is upon equal universal rights for every person as a concern of education and action. The introduction presents an address by…

A secondary level, multicurricular Quinmester course on stage design is tentatively outlined. The study and application of design and construction as it relates to stage production introduces students to the setting that man creates to give an illusion of the time, locale, and mood for his dramatic productions. The overall success of this illusion…

This Quinmester course on money and banking, part of the political and economic studies cluster for grades 10, 11, and 12, aims at examining the nature, role and scope of money in a capitalistic economy. Emphasis is placed upon understanding the operation of government policies affecting banking, with its subsequent influences on our national…

Teacher developed guides for a twelve-unit series on anthropology at the sixth grade level are outlined. Although these materials were designed to accompany a lesson on a state instructional television network they can be utilized to a degree without the video experience. Topics of the units consist of what is anthropology; what is culture; why is…

The purpose of this monograph is to present a five step paradigm for the secondary school teacher on how to employ debate as a teaching tool: 1) basic idea of what debate is and the objective of formal debate; 2) the role of the affirmative and negative in presenting cases; 3) the function and purpose of the rebuttal period; 4) information on the…

The contents of this listing of materials, intended as resources for teachers and other persons concerned with improving the educational opportunities of Puerto Rican pupils on the mainland as well as on the island, are organized in four sections: (1) books: Puerto Rican Culture in English, Puerto Rican Culture in Spanish, and Children's Fiction;…

This interim report was prepared by a third party evaluation team in order to relate component objectives to: (1) input resources and conditions, (2) process treatment and transactions, and (3) output products and performance. Project activities were intended to: (1) Develop teachers in five metropolitan area elementary schools to help youngsters…

To provide teachers of vocational agriculture, agricultural supervisors, and agricultural teacher educators with information on current curriculum materials available to them, this annotated bibliography presents 207 references classified according to the AGDEX filing system. Topics are: (1) Field Crops, (2) Horticulture, (3) Forestry, (4) Animal…

To improve the impact and relevance of English instruction, this book suggests that films may be used as a springboard for critical analysis much like literary criticism, or they may be used as a medium of education on their own, shaping values, attitudes, and forms of expression. The necessary facilities for a film study program are described and…

The Guide to Materials for Reading Instruction, 1971 Edition, updates earlier editions and includes approximately 2,300 entries of materials from 114 publishers. The guide is intended to keep educators informed about the constantly increasing supply of new materials available for the teaching of reading. Items appearing in the guide are described…

This directory of materials gives the location, nature, and quantity of the holdings of over 2100 private and public organizations, institutes, and libraries in the United States which collect information on Afro-Americans. Information on the 5300 collections listed was gathered through the use of a questionnaire circulated in 1968-69. Most of the…