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Download full textAyers, Samuel J. – 1989
Second and third grade students used the creative problem solving strategy developed by Sidney Parnes and Alex Osborn in their social studies classes. The second graders, finding few biographies written for students reading on a first or second grade level, interviewed community members, collected photographs of them, and wrote their biographies,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Decision Making
Suiter, Mary C. – 2001
Developing financial fitness requires developing a knowledge base and then applying it. This teacher guide and student workouts package contains 15 lessons from students at grades 3-5, divided into 4 theme areas of earning and income, saving, spending and borrowing, and managing money. The development of knowledge for use in the everyday life of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Consumer Education, Decision Making, Economics Education
Missouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. Div. of Instruction. – 1999
This document includes the left-hand column ("What all Students Should Know") and the center column ("What All Students Should Be Able To Do") from "Missouri's Framework for Curriculum Development in Communication Arts K-12." Next to these two columns has been added a column which includes assessment notes for those…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11
Chang, Gen Ling; Wells, Gordon – 1987
Noting that collaboration can enhance children's ability to solve problems of increasing difficulty, this paper discusses the theory of collaborative talk in the classroom and how it can be applied. The first section of the paper introduces the notion of collaborative talk by describing a classroom setting and offering an excerpt of two children…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cooperation
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Curriculum Support Branch. – 1989
This teacher resource manual focuses on the Alberta, Canada social studies curriculum for grades one through three. The manual has five main sections. (1) "Introduction to the Program" discusses the program goals and objectives. The importance of problem solving and decision making skills are stressed, and strategies are discussed for…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design, Decision Making
Bartlett, Glenda; Price, Marlene H. – 1981
A third-grade class and fifth-grade remedial reading students gained a positive attitude toward contemporary economic problems by studying economics as a puzzle in this award-winning project. The following concepts were each approached as pieces of the puzzle to be solved: money, wants and needs, income, goods and services, scarcity, consumption…
Descriptors: Awards, Business, Concept Teaching, Decision Making
Hammer, Judith McGowan; O'Bar, Angelina Merenda – 1989
Growing Up Strong (GUS) is a curriculum designed to develop strong mental and physical health in kindergarten through sixth grade students, with the objective of preventing subsequent substance abuse. This document contains a teacher's guide for using GUS in second and third grade classrooms (GUS 2-3) and duplication masters of materials that can…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Check Lists, Child Rearing, Class Activities
