This memorandum reports on the third phase, the design, of a four-phase project to design project management training materials for local educational agencies. The first section of the memorandum explains some considerations regarding management education and the organization of the report. Section 2 presents the design specifications for the…

Instructional materials for teaching traffic sefety education to students at the K-3 levels are presented in the document. The learning activities focus on the goals of functioning as responsible citizens as pedestrians, bicyclists, car passengers, and school bus passengers, and are presented separately for each level. A series of 22 lessons are…

Instructional materials for teaching traffic safety education to Grades 4-6 students are presented in the document. The learning activities, which are presented separately for each level, focus on the goals of functioning as responsible citizens as pedestrians, bicyclists, car passengers, and school bus passengers. A series of 15 lessons are…

The instructional unit was developed for use as a guide for planning and teaching adult or young farmer classes in Kentucky. The unit consists of 12 lessons covering various aspects of soybean production and marketing. The course objective is to develop the effective ability of farmers to plan for profitable soybean production. Transparency and…

A resource unit is devoted to teaching structural linguistics to deaf students, using a discovery approach, in order that they may learn written communication through English grammar. Recurring simple sentence patterns are presented, together with lesson plans for teaching sequential patterning in terms of word function and classification, pattern…

The author explains the need for validation in instructional television, citing his experiences with the ITV mathematics series, "It Figures," in Dade County Florida. He also describes in some detail the application of validation to the development of a television series, discussing such items as the specification of behavioral…

This manual describes the mechanics and major features of a Saturday school project for 40 Negro preschool children implemented by the South Central Region Educational Laboratory in the 1968-69 school year in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. The manual has two goals: (1) to inform the reader about how the project was successfully implemented, and (2) to…

The expanding use of ceramic products in today's world can be seen in the areas of communications, construction, aerospace, textiles, metallurgy, atomic energy, and electronics. The demands of science have brought ceramics from an art to an industry using mass production and automated processes which requires the services of great numbers as the…

The curriculum guide (a revision of a 1969 edition) is for teachers of driver and safety education and others interested in promoting its objectives. Part 1 briefly outlines the organization and administration of such a program while Part 2 deals with curriculum and the components of on-highway tasks, readiness tasks, and improvement tasks.…

This booklet brings the student some knowledge of drugs and how they are used and abused by people. Fourteen lessons for independent study are presented. Each lesson starts with a pretest for self-assessment purposes. If the score on the pretest indicates the student would benefit from further study on the particular lesson, general subject matter…

This paper describes procedures used by the author in analyzing data obtained from observation of a 9-day fourth-grade social studies unit developed by the Washington University Social Studies Curriculum Project. Analysis included the development of a chart showing the structure of each lesson from two teachers' lesson plans. The actual sequence…

Designed to bridge the gap between traditional teacher-supplied content and process and the needs of the "rock era" student, this course focuses on developing minimum goals. The goals are related to musical attitudes, musical understanding, and musical skills of the student. The emphasis is on the student's human values, interpersonal feelings,…

The Cognitive Curriculum focuses primarily on intellectual, or cognitive development of the child. Much of its theory is based on the work of Piaget and is concerned with the development of logical thinking and representation. A central tenet is that the child learns through active involvement with his environment and that the child undergoes…

A course for secretaries who wish to update their skills in written communications and decision making is presented. The course contains 10 sessions. The first five deal with written communication and skills brushup. The remaining five deal with decision-making skills. (CK)

Lesson plans prepared by Adult Basic Education teachers who attended one-day mini-workshops and the participants of a six-session course held at the University of Southern California are presented. The plans are in outline format. The content areas covered are: Consumer Education (Buying Foods, Bank Checking Accounts, Telephone and Directory,…