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Download full textKingston, Sally – Buck Institute for Education, 2018
The driving question for this brief is based on the most common question that teachers, principals, school leaders, coaches, and grant writers ask the Buck Institute for Education (BIE) about Project Based Learning (PBL): What evidence exists that shows the impact of Project Based Learning on student learning in core content areas? Research shows…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Academic Achievement, Evidence
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1983
Listed in this catalog of instructional materials in spelling and handwriting are those materials adopted by the California State Board of Education for use in public schools from 1983 to 1985. Programs listed include those published by W. S. Benson; Bowmar/Noble; Globe Book; Harper and Row; D. C. Heath; Laidlaw Brothers; McGraw-Hill; A. N.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Language Arts, Spelling Instruction
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1988
This catalog lists both recommended and non-recommended bibliographies of instructional materials for California kindergarten through eighth grade English/language arts teachers and explains the choices of the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission. The California State Board of Education adopted the commission's…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Education, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Kiesner, Elaine – 2000
In this kindergarten unit, students learn to name and talk about their address. The purpose of the lesson is to meet requirement K.4 of the California History Social Science Standards, to guide young children as they become aware of themselves in relation to the earth upon which they live, to develop a story which focuses the student's learning,…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Kindergarten, Language Arts, Locational Skills (Social Studies)
Wahe, Amy – 2001
This illustrated activity for primary students features the life and accomplishments of Booker T. Washington. This educator began his life as a plantation slave and later founded Tuskegee Institute, one of the first colleges that African Americans could attend. The activity tells how Booker T. Washington and his students built the Tuskegee…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Black Achievement, Black Colleges, Black History
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1988
This book is intended as a resource for teachers and curriculum developers who select textbooks for secondary English courses. It includes a compilation of 32 factual textbook reviews obtained from the application of a review instrument, which was based on the California "Model Curriculum Standards: Grades Nine through Twelve, English…
Descriptors: English, English Curriculum, English Instruction, High Schools
Zachlod, Michelle, Ed. – 2001
California State Standard 5.2 is delineated as: Students trace the routes of early explorers and describe the early explorations of the Americas. The Age of Exploration, which began in the late 1400s, was an important era in the discovery and development of land yet unknown to Europeans. During this period, Europeans sought new sea routes to Asia…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Case Studies, Curriculum Enrichment, European History
Zachlod, Michelle, Ed. – 2001
California State Standard 5.3 is delineated as: Students describe the cooperation and conflict that existed among the Indians and between the Indian nations and the new settlers. North American Indians once had inhabited regions now contained in the United States that stretched from far north to south and from the east to the west coasts. The…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, American Indians, Cooperation, Curriculum Enrichment
Sammut-Tovar, Dorothy – 1983
Designed to sensitize primary grade students to the responsibilities of protecting wild animals, this teaching unit contains a variety of interdisciplinary worksheets and activities. Although focusing on wild animals indigenous to San Mateo County (California), materials are easily adaptable for use in other areas. Examples of activities are…
Descriptors: Animals, Child Responsibility, Health Education, Instructional Materials
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1990
This handbook, intended for English language arts teachers, principals, curriculum and testing specialists, superintendents, and all educators interested in preparing students for the grade 8 California Assessment Program (CAP) writing assessment, provides the practitioner with information about the content of the test, the rationale underlying…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Language Arts
Zachlod, Michelle, Ed. – 2001
California State Standard 5.6 is delineated as: Students understand the course and consequences of the U.S. Revolutionary War. Students should be able to identify and map the major military battles, campaigns, and turning points of the Revolutionary War, the roles of U.S. and British leaders, Indian alliances on both sides, the contributions of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Curriculum Enrichment, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Mollet, Joyce; Mollet, David – 2000
On November 17, 1995 the following news item appeared in "Time Magazine": "Long-lost cave reveals burial tombs of Maccabees." You (the student) are a journalist who has been asked by your editor to follow up that news item with an in-depth feature a two page spread with text and graphics entitled "The Life and Times of…
Descriptors: Culture, Evaluation Criteria, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Zachlod, Michelle, Ed. – 2001
California State Standard 5.5 is delineated as: Students explain the causes of the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War is a great central drama in U.S. history and in the evolution of nationalism and democracy throughout the world. Students should perceive the worldwide impact of the colonies' triumph over British imperial power and its…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Colonialism, Curriculum Enrichment, Grade 5
California State Univ., Stanislaus. – 1990
Motivated by the discouraging fact that only 7 percent of the local high school graduates were proceeding on to college or university education, a group of teachers, junior high through university, involved in the California Academic Partnership (CAP) Project, decided to analyze what was being taught and the methods being used. Collaborating with…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College School Cooperation, Curriculum Guides, English Instruction
Speed, Christie – 2000
You (the student) have been selected to be the school librarian's helper today. You are going to help her shelve books about moose. But you will have to read the books before you shelve them to decide if they are fictional storybooks about moose or nonfictional books about moose. You will decide if the books are real (nonfiction) or make believe…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Alaska Natives, Brainstorming, Fiction
