The teacher's manual accompanies the Ethnic Heritage in America curriculum materials for elementary-level social studies. First, the manual presents a background discussion of the materials. The materials resulted from an ethnic education project based on a course for teachers on Community Policies in Ethnic Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. One of the main goals of the project was to develop materials in ethnic studies for grades 5-8 that deal with Greeks, Jews, Lithuanians, and Ukrainians. Two main themes selected for the materials are (1) contributions of an ethnic group to American life and (2) the relationship of an ethnic group to its homeland. The materials concentrate on the following five topics: early settlement of America, mass immigration, cultural patterns in Europe and USSR, conflicts within the nation, and challenge of an interdependent world. The ways that the themes in the materials can be integrated into an existing curriculum are listed and matched to one of the five topics of ethnic studies. Finally, two short papers are presented that deal with teaching ethnic studies. They are "Problems in Maintaining Ethnic Group Identity and Cohesion" by Thomas Kochman and "The Name of the Game Is Democracy: Transmitting the Concept of Ethnicity and Cultural Pluralism of American Society in a Classroom Setting." (ND)