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Download full textIowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. – 1994
Developed by Iowa educators, this guide contains 23 sample lessons that offer guidelines for addressing the issue of homelessness with students in grades 1-12. The lesson plans were developed for varying age and ability levels, and slight changes can make them usable in a variety of settings to accomplish many different purposes. Resources are…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Responsibility, Community Role, Disadvantaged
Jacobsen, G. Michael; Albertson, Bonnie Sanderson – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1987
Rural ghettos are created when proportionately large numbers of unemployed, low income, and elderly residents live in communities located 30 miles or more from communities which can provide the range of goods and services necessary for a decent quality of life. This definition may apply to 300 Iowa towns. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Agricultural Trends, Community Characteristics, Economic Climate, Elementary Secondary Education
Toothman, Maryann; Jensen, Denise – 1980
An intermediate or junior high level unit on Indians indigenous to Iowa focuses on history, culture, and cultural conflict between the Indians and white Americans. Many of the materials can be adapted for use in other states or for a more general unit on American Indians. Twenty lessons cover the location of Iowa; prehistoric Iowa; Indian society…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Languages, American Indian Reservations, American Indian Studies
