Prepared by the District of Columbia Street Law Project for its 20th annual city-wide mock trial competition, this instructional handout provides the material for a mock civil trial over educational malpractice. Chris Moss, a senior at Metro City Senior High School, has been enrolled in Metro City's schools since entering kindergarten and has…

This book, a revision and updating of a work first published under the same title in 1974, presents a detailed chronological history of African Americans in the United States. The description begins with the origins of Homo sapiens in Africa, and traces the African American story from slavery in North America through the U.S. Civil War, the…

This learning guide, covering the third series (65 shows) of the bilingual (Spanish/English) television series "Villa Alegre," describes its objectives and provides teaching materials drawn from each show for use as reinforcers for the concepts presented or as an adjunct to other educational activities. The content of the series is designed around…

This story, written by middle school students and their teacher at Kingsbury School in Michigan, concerns the Ancient Roman Empire and is designed to be used to teach other middle school students. The story depicts a quest to reconstruct the Roman Empire from its beginnings as Ancient Italy, as a republic in the sixth century B.C., to the height…

Designed for use with the text "Greek and Roman Myths," this junior high school learning activity packet introduces students to mythology and examines the influence of myths on contemporary culture. Over 20 exercises, tagged to specific readings in the text, cover identification of the major gods, the Prometheus myth, the Atlas myth,…

Activities in this unit are designed to sensitize students in grades 4-6 to the needs of animals and to the injustices many species suffer. The lessons focus on inhumane acts such as the use of steel-jaw traps, dogfighting, hunting, keeping exotic pets in captivity, using animals in entertainment, habitat destruction, factory farming, and animal…

Activities in this elementary school unit about the 1980 presidential election can easily be adapted to any election. Fact sheets list the main functions of the president, 10 steps in becoming president, qualifications for the presidency, qualifications and duties of the vice president, election vocabulary, an explanation of the electoral college,…

The purpose of this booklet is to provide a basic understanding of nuclear fission energy and different fission reaction concepts. Topics discussed are: energy use and production, current uses of fuels, oil and gas consumption, alternative energy sources, fossil fuel plants, nuclear plants, boiling water and pressurized water reactors, the light…

This bilingual American government handbook is one in a series designed to help high school students who are literate in their native Lao, but are limited-English-proficient, in meeting their graduation requirements. The handbook is essentially a glossary. The first part, in Lao, contains major concepts in American government and definitions of…

This bilingual handbook on United States government is one in a series developed to help high school students who are literate in Spanish, but not in English, to meet graduate requirements. Major American government concepts and a glossary of important and commonly used terms are presented, first in Spanish and then in English. (CMG)

This workbook provides practice, for children at the first grade level, in spelling 52 basic sight words and high-interest words which are found in primers and preprimers and relate to the child's immediate world. Throughout the workbook letter practice pages precede word practice pages. Special sentence pages that offer the child opportunities to…

This document contains a compilation of overhead projection sheets from an International Labour Office (ILO) Training Course in Micro-ISIS held in March 1988, augmented by explanatory text and applications to a wide variety of databases. It is designed both to provide a visual, didactic approach to Micro-ISIS, and to constitute a quick-reference…

This book contains a variety of worksheets to teach and reinforce addition skills. Secret codes, magic squares, pyramids, coloring activities, and dot-to-dot challenges are included to motivate students. A two-page test of basic addition facts is provided, with the suggestion that the teacher time the test and give it repeatedly to assess…

A collection of motivational activities to introduce and reinforce basic subtraction facts is presented. Emphasized are the use of pairs with the same differences, such as 7-3=4, 6-2=4, and 5-1=4. A three-page test that can be used to test and retest each student is included; after graphing the results, the test can be cut apart and used as a set…

This book is designed to introduce and provide motivational practice on basic multiplication facts for students in grades 2-6. The facts are presented in order from 0 through 12, with activities designed to review previously presented facts at three points. A test is provided. Searches, magic squares, mazes, and puzzles are among the activities…