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Peer reviewedSmith, Dennis W.; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1993
Study assessed factors associated with teachers' implementation of health curricula. School representatives implemented one of three smoking prevention curricula in sixth or seventh grades. Experimental teachers received extensive curriculum training. Training significantly related to whether teachers implemented curricula. Variables outside…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 6, Grade 7, Health Promotion
Mellon, Constance A. – School Library Journal, 1995
Presents results of a study which interviewed sixth graders from three North Carolina schools to determine what they think of their school librarians. Results indicated that children's perceptions are affected by personalities and behavior of individual librarians. Sidebars focus on how the study was conducted and what students noticed most about…
Descriptors: Behavior, Child Development, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
This guide is intended for use in teaching a semester course for sixth graders in self- and career awareness and career exploration. The course is designed to provide initial career guidance experiences and hands-on exploratory activities in the following areas: self-awareness, decision making, employability skills, orientation to careers, the…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Exploration, Career Planning, Competency Based Education
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Personnel Relations. – 1988
During the 1985-86 school year, 16 North Carolina school units began a four-year pilot program that used a variety of incentives, evaluation strategies, and staff development activities to improve teachers' skills, and, indirectly, the achievement of students. After three years of the Career Development Program (CDP), the California Achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Development, Elementary Education, Grade 3
United States Mint (Dept. of Treasury), Washington, DC. – 2001
This teacher's guide on the 50 state quarters produced by the United States Mint includes six lesson plans that fit easily into the social studies curriculum for grades 4-6. The lesson plans include reproducible student work pages that coincide with each lesson; state facts and information about the 2001 state quarter designs (New York, North…
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Geographic Location, Geography, Grade 4
North Carolina State Dept. of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, Raleigh. Div. of Parks and Recreation. – 1994
This curriculum guide was developed to provide environmental education through a series of hands-on activities for the classroom and the outdoor setting of Goose Creek State Park, North Carolina. This activity packet, designed for the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades, meets established curriculum objectives of the North Carolina Department of Public…
Descriptors: Activities, Class Activities, Ecology, Environmental Education
North Carolina State Dept. of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, Raleigh. Div. of Parks and Recreation. – 1994
This curriculum guide was developed to provide environmental education through a series of hands-on activities for the classroom and the outdoor setting of Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, North Carolina. This activity packet, designed for grades 5 and 6, meets established curriculum objectives of the North Carolina Department of Public…
Descriptors: Activities, Botany, Class Activities, Classification
Conrad, Trudy C. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1994
Describes a collaborative curriculum program developed by the library media specialist and classroom teachers for a sixth-grade unit on space exploration at a North Carolina elementary school. Staff development, shared activities of teachers and the library media specialist, and special activities in the library media center are described. (LRW)
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedCashwell, Craig S. – Journal of Humanistic Education and Development, 1995
Examines the relationship between family cohesion, family adaptability, student satisfaction with family, and self-esteem in 619 middle school students. Analysis indicates that within the specified model, family satisfaction was the strongest predictor of student self-esteem, and that eighth- grade students reported a significantly lower level of…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Family Environment, Family Influence, Grade 6
Peer reviewedWilliams, Jackie; Reynolds, Terry Deal – Educational Leadership, 1993
By focusing on a polluted river and a visit to a rural Tennessee town, sixth-grade students from suburban Asheville, North Carolina, learned more about this controversy than many of their well-informed parents and teachers. Steps for creating similar interdisciplinary thematic units are described, along with the benefits of team teaching and…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Educational Benefits, Elementary Education, Environmental Education
Peer reviewedKieff, Judith – Childhood Education, 2005
One of the most important functions of a teacher is to help students make important connections between the subject matters they study. Too often, the different curricular subjects, such as social studies, language arts, math, and science, are presented to students in a vacuum. Accordingly, many students leave school without ever noticing the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Team Teaching, Social Studies, Cooperative Learning
Friel, Susan N.; Bright, George W. – 1996
A study examined middle grades students' learning of concepts related to the use and interpretation of graphs. Subjects of the study were 76 sixth-grade students in 3 different mathematics classes in a central North Carolina middle school. The first two parts of the written instrument were administered as both a pretest and a posttest, using line…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Grade 6, Graphs, Intermediate Grades
Direct linkRichard Alan Spurling – ProQuest LLC, 2004
In today's schools bullies have the power to be more tenacious, more vicious, and meaner than ever. We are all beginning to understand that victims of bullying are at a greater risk for depression, suicide, and hurting others through violent acts. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate common threads of effective Bully-Free…
Descriptors: Bullying, Values Education, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Social Studies Education. – 1988
These lessons are part of a project to make the study of law and legal concepts an integral part of the North Carolina social studies state curriculum, and the materials are correlated to this curriculum. Six lesson goals and numerous activities focus on the legal concepts of authority, justice, and responsibility. This packet for grade six…
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Instructional Materials
MCARTHUR, BERNARD – 1960
ENRICHMENT SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHERS OF GRADES FOUR THROUGH EIGHT IN THE AREAS OF SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, SOCIAL STUDIES, AND LANGUAGE AND READING WERE PRESENTED. EACH SUBJECT INCLUDED A DESCRIPTION OF THE LESSON, WITH MATERIALS, AND HOW TO EXPLAIN THE PURPOSES. AN EXAMPLE OF A SCIENCE ACTIVITY WAS BUILDING A TEST COIL FOR A SEVENTH GRADE CLASS. THE…
Descriptors: Classrooms, Curriculum Enrichment, Enrichment Activities, Gifted
