The procedures and techniques developed to evaluate a project to implement media in elementary schools are discussed. To describe the decision-making setting, two necessary conditions--understanding (high or low) and amount of change (large or small)--were paired against each other resulting in four possible evaluation settings. The situation in…

This publication includes sample units designed for use in the senior high school elective course, minorities in America. Written during the summer of 1969, it is designed to suggest possible organizations, materials, and activities that will assist the classroom teacher in handling a diversified, complex course. The units are pilots or models,…

ASCILOS, an acronym for a symbiotic community in the land of the Sioux, is a new land settlement pattern designed by the Center for Community Organization and Area Development (CENCOAD), sponsored by Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. ASCILOS covers a 60-mile radius around Sioux Falls. ASCILOS, based on symbiosis in nature, assumes that…

This resource unit intended for teachers of secondary grades offers a suggested approach to learning fundamental elements of Chinese culture. The major objective is to provide a structured, factual framework of the forces and the 3,000 years of cultural evolution in which Chinese ideals and institutions developed and contributed to the modern…

Under this grant, the Florida State University committed itself to the strengthening of the University's capacity in applying a systems approach to the utilization of technology in education; to mobilize and extend further its competencies in this field; and, through its Center for Educational Technology (CET), to provide a special focus of its…

In the third resource unit on regional studies designed for fifth graders, focus is upon the Northeast area in general, and specifically upon a case study of the urban area of New York City itself. The case study is one of sequent occupance from the time of inhabitance by the Indians in New York City up to the present time and includes examination…

The second of three main parts designed for fifth grade students, resource unit six presents an overview of the patterns and a system of regionalization on Canada, and deals with case studies which illustrate the fact that man uses his physical environment in terms of his cultural values, perceptions, and level of technology. The approach and…

This resource unit for 5th graders includes three case studies and a sub-unit on the West as a region. Three sequent occupance case studies which are suggestive, rather than prescriptive, comprise the first part of the unit. Teachers may decide to select only one for an in-depth study or may decide to design a case study modeled after this…

To prepare learning materials for health careers programs at the secondary level, the developmental phase of two curriculum projects--the Health Occupations Cluster Curriculum Project and Health-Care Aide Curriculum Project--utilized a model which incorporated a key factor analysis technique. Entitled "A Comprehensive Careers Cluster Curriculum…

This guide assembles a helpful set of inexpensive ideas based on sound learning theory and successful classroom experience. Two major concepts are developed: (1) the learning center and (2) contract teaching. Learning centers are characterized by their flexibility and numerous opportunities for student involvement. They may be used for the…

What schools can do and are doing to prevent the abuse of drugs by their students is the focus of this report. The first section of the report "An Overview of Current Efforts" presents the findings of a one-year study of drug education in the United States, with a subjective analysis of the various approaches in the field. In the second…

Colonization of America is the theme in this second social studies unit for 6th grade students. Reasons for colonization are briefly discussed. The unit then takes up the Spanish settlement of Mexico, the way in which the Spanish took their culture with them to the new world, differences in the way in which the Aztecs and the Spanish perceived the…

This third in a series of resource units designed for sixth grade students and produced by the Project Social Studies Curriculum Center deals primarily with the English settlement of North America. Pupils study similarities and differences in the English settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth by using case studies. English contact with the Indian…

The Plains Indians are studied in unit seven, the last resource unit in the sixth grade social studies course which focuses on culture. This unit provides two case studies of the Cheyenne and the Mandan for students to examine similarities and differences between the two cultures. The lives of the Indians are analyzed through the white man's…

This document contains the speeches and notes of workshop participants assembled to discuss the rehabilitation and renovation of existing schools in keeping with new educational requirements. Thirty-seven selections cover such topics as criteria for planning; development of school sites; community use of the schools; education and architecture;…