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Institute for Environmental Education, Chagrin Falls, OH. – 1994
Increased human population has led to more frequent interactions with the environment. The results of those interactions have affected the Earth's ecosystem. This manual contains hands-on, problem-centered activities to help students develop an environmental ethic and stewardship regarding waste management. The activities are grouped under three…
Descriptors: Acid Rain, Ecology, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Center on Education and Training for Employment. – 1994
This document contains 17 units to consider for use in a tech prep competency profile for the occupation of computer systems technician. All the units listed will not necessarily apply to every situation or tech prep consortium, nor will all the competencies within each unit be appropriate. Several units appear within each specific occupation and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Competence, Competency Based Education, Computer Literacy
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Center on Education and Training for Employment. – 1994
This document contains 17 units to consider for use in a tech prep competency profile for the occupation of computer programming technician. All the units listed will not necessarily apply to every situation or tech prep consortium, nor will all the competencies within each unit be appropriate. Several units appear within each specific occupation…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Competence, Competency Based Education, Computer Assisted Design
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Vocational, Adult, and Community Education. – 1990
This document presents eight models of the exploratory vocational wheel for the middle/junior high school and a collection of career development activities designed for infusion in various curriculum areas. The wheel is a scheduling strategy that allows middle schools students to explore elements of several different occupations as classes rotate…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Ancillary School Services, Career Development, Career Education
Tieman, Rebecca; Burns, Stacey – 1997
This publication consists of the main and mini reports for Missouri's Show-Me Standards and vocational education competencies for health occupations. This database documents the common ground between academic skills and vocational competencies. Both components of the Show-Me Standards--knowledge (content) and performance (process)--have been…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Basic Skills
Harris, Barbara; Kohlmeier, Kris; Kiel, Robert D. – 1999
Casting students in grades 5 through 12 in the roles of reporters, lawyers, and detectives at the scene of a crime, this interdisciplinary activity involves participants in the intrigue and drama of crime investigation. Using a hands-on, step-by-step approach, students work in teams to investigate a crime and solve a mystery. Through role-playing…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Crime
Federal/Provincial Consumer Education and Plain Language Task Force (Canada). – 1991
Project Real World, a self-contained, activity-based Canadian consumer science program, provides students with systematic instruction in economic living skills. It gives students in grades 10-12 an orientation to the economic realities and opportunities in society. The program helps students understand the marketplace; manage resources; apply…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Careers, Citizenship Responsibility, Consumer Education
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Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN. – 1992
This manual is designed as a training tool for individuals who are implementing tech prep in Indiana. It is divided into three major divisions. Division I contains general information about tech prep and issues related to its implementation. Its nine chapters summarize relevant legislation, address leadership concerns, explain curriculum…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Competency Based Education, Course Content, Curriculum Development
Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale. Dept. of Agricultural Education and Mechanization. – 1993
This curriculum guide, the third in a set of six, contains teacher and student materials for a unit on solar energy prepared as part of a seventh- and eighth-grade agricultural science curriculum that is integrated with science instruction. The guide contains the state goals and sample learning objectives for each goal for students in grades 8-10…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Sciences, Alternative Energy Sources
Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale. Dept. of Agricultural Education and Mechanization. – 1993
This curriculum guide, the fifth in a set of six, contains teacher and student materials for a unit on electrical energy prepared as part of a seventh- and eighth-grade agricultural science curriculum that is integrated with science instruction. The guide contains the state goals and sample learning objectives for each goal for students in grades…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Sciences
Lancaster, F. Wilfrid; Warner, Amy J. – 1993
The emphasis of this text is that the problems of information retrieval are the intellectual ones of subject analysis and description. These problems are not easily solved by technology alone, although certain inroads are being made by knowledge-based expert systems and other computer aids to indexing. Linguistic approaches are also showing…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Cost Effectiveness, Database Producers
Patton, Jan – 1990
This curriculum guide for business office clerical/business office services provides instructional materials for Texas business course instructors. The following sections are included: (1) introduction; (2) keyboarding--skills, proofreading, and word processing; (3) filing--alphabetic, numeric, and electronic; (4) operating office…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Business Education, Calculators, Clerical Occupations
Klapper, Michael H.; And Others – 1991
This document explores the mission, goals, and underlying philosophy of the National Center for Science Teaching and Learning (NCSTL). The reform of the U.S. educational system, especially in the area of science education, will require a thorough examination of noncurricular, external factors affecting science education. In order to bring about…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Educational Change
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Vocational Education. – 1989
This V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Consortium of States) Guide is an extension or continuation of the V-TECS catalog for the occupation of computer operator. The guide is designed to help South Carolina teachers to promote the art of learning while teaching subject matter. The guide addresses the three domains of learning: psychomotor, cognitive,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Clerical Occupations, Competency Based Education, Computer Science Education
Berman, David M. – 1987
In structure and in function, the Japanese high school entrance examination--as exemplified by data from Chiba prefecture in 1986--survives as a prewar hierarchical cultural pattern. Postwar American occupation reforms offered "democratic education" in the form of a single-track system with 9 years of compulsory schooling; such a system,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Case Studies, Cultural Influences
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