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Peer reviewedMaggio, Mary – Voice of Youth Advocates, 1996
Describes the development of a Young Teens Advisory Board (YTAB) at the Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library in Shirley, New York. Reviews the progress the group has made from its formation in 1987 to the present and describes programs and events organized by the YTAB to bring sixth, seventh, and eighth graders into the library. (JMV)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advisory Committees, Grade 6, Grade 7
Peer reviewedSchuchat, Dan – Social Education, 2005
What social studies project challenges students with interdisciplinary learning, engages their various abilities and learning styles, offers them the opportunity for collaborative work-and encourages them to speak in strange voices? The answer is an eighth grade radio drama project. For most of the month of March 2004, the entire eighth grade at…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Radio, Drama, Social Studies
Download full textSAETVEIT, JOSEPH G.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THIS HANDBOOK PRESENTS SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS CONCERNING CONTENT, METHODS, AND MATERIALS APPROPRIATE FOR USE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM IN GENERAL MUSIC FOR GRADES 7 AND 8. TWENTY-FIVE TEACHING UNITS ARE PROVIDED AND ARE RECOMMENDED FOR ADAPTATION TO MEET SITUATIONAL CONDITIONS. THE TEACHING UNITS ARE GROUPED UNDER THE GENERAL…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Course Organization, Grade 7, Grade 8
JOHNSON, MAURITZ; SCRIVEN, ELDON – 1967
USING DATA OBTAINED BY THE QUALITY MEASUREMENT PROJECT ON SOME 70,000 PUPILS, THIS STUDY ATTEMPTED TO PRODUCE EVIDENCE REGARDING THE INFLUENCE OF CLASS SIZE AND CLASS HOMOGENEITY ON ACHIEVEMENT GAINS IN GRADES 7 AND 8. A TOTAL OF 130 ENGLISH AND 135 MATHEMATICS CLASSES CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO SIZE AND HOMOGENEITY WERE EXAMINED. THE READING…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Arithmetic, Class Size, English Instruction
BYRD, CHARLENE H. – 1964
A REALISTIC LOOK AT STANDARDIZED TEST RESULTS AND EARLY OBSERVATION OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN SILENT AND ORAL READING SITUATIONS REVEALED THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE 7TH AND 8TH GRADE PUPILS WERE DISABLED READERS. SIX SPECIFIC AIMS WERE--REFINING COMPREHENSION SKILLS, EXTENDING INTERESTS AND RECOGNITION SKILLS, IMPROVING READING, STRENGTHENING WORD…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Language Arts
KRANER, ROBERT E. – 1964
A COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTS OF THE TWO METHODS OF LISTENING AND READING INSTRUCTION WHEN USED IN THE LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM AT THE EIGHTH-GRADE LEVEL AS RELATED TO LISTENING, READING, STUDY SKILLS, AND ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENT WAS PRESENTED. ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN STUDENTS ENROLLED IN SIX REGULARLY SCHEDULED ENGLISH CLASSES WERE ASSIGNED BY CLASSES TO…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Comparative Analysis, English Instruction, Grade 8
Franklin, Catherine – Bank Street College of Education, 2003
This essay provides a window into an eighth-grade class engaged in a legislative curriculum drama. The author, an eighth-grade social studies and literature teacher at a private New York City elementary school, describes her use of a legislative curriculum drama to make an eight-week study of the legislative branch of government a more dynamic and…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Grade 8, Imagination, Inquiry
Direct linkZydney, Janet Mannheimer – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2005
This pilot study investigated the effectiveness of a multimedia learning environment called "Pollution Solution" on eighth-grade students' ability to define a complex problem. Sixty students from four earth science classes taught by the same teacher in a New York City public school were included in the sample for this study. The classes…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Earth Science, Teaching Methods, Multimedia Instruction
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1991
This document was designed to provide school administrators and professional staff of New York State with a model for evaluating the grade 7-8 social studies program. The program evaluation model outlines a step-by-step procedure for identifying questions for study, gathering and analyzing data, and developing a plan for program improvement. An…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, Grade 7, Grade 8
Anker, Irving; Lloyd, Helene M. – 1967
This resource guide contains practical suggestions for teaching of Grade 8 science to the pupils in the Career Guidance Program. The Career Guidance Program was developed for students who are over-age, frustrated, retarded in the school subject, and indifferent to education. The selection and organization of the material parallels the regular…
Descriptors: Biology, Boards of Education, Chemistry, Curriculum Development
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Bureau of Curriculum Development. – 1969
The contemporary mathematics program set forth in this publication developed as a result of experimentation and evaluation in classroom situations. This is Part 2 of "Mathematics: 8th Year." Part 1, a separate bulletin, was published during the school year 1967-68. The materials in this bulletin are intended to serve as guidelines for…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Curriculum Development, Discovery Processes, Grade 8
Malow-Iroff, Micheline S. – Online Submission, 2005
The purpose of this grant funded investigation was to examine the impact of friendship alliance in an early adolescent population on cigarette and alcohol variables. Sixth, seventh and eighth grade students from two urban areas completed a survey that addressed cigarette and alcohol attitudes, practices, expectancies and intentions. Only those…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Early Adolescents, Grade 7, Grade 6
Podszebka, Darcy; Conklin, Candee; Apple, Mary; Windus, Amy – 1998
A study investigated the effect of video and narrative presentations on children's comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. Participants were students in four heterogeneously grouped eighth-grade English classes (n=16, 22, 21, and 11) in a rural school district in southwestern New York. The short story selected was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking, Grade 8, Instructional Effectiveness
COHN, BENJAMIN; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE APPLICATION OF GROUP COUNSELING WAS INVESTIGATED WITH RESPECT TO ITS EFFECT ON UNDERACHIEVING, ACTING-OUT, JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BOYS. IN ADDITION, TWO OTHER EFFECTS WERE STUDIED--(1) THAT OF INVOLVING TEACHERS IN DISCUSSION GROUPS AND (2) THAT OF THESE DISCUSSIONS GROUPS ON TEACHER ATTITUDES. THREE COUNSELORS FROM DIFFERENT SCHOOLS IN SIMILAR…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Discussion Groups, Grade 7, Grade 8
New York State Education Dept., Albany.
COURSE TOPICS, CONCEPTS, LEARNING ACTIVITIES, AND TEACHER REFERENCE INFORMATION ARE INCLUDED IN THIS TEACHER GUIDE FOR AN EXPERIMENTAL INSTRUCTIONAL BLOCK ON THE TOPIC "TAKING CARE OF OURSELVES". MAJOR TOPICS INCLUDE (1) UNDERSTANDING HOW WE LEARN, (2) MAINTAINING HEALTHY BODY SYSTEMS, AND (3) DEVELOPING BENEFICIAL PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR.…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Guides, General Science, Grade 7
