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Dzama, Mary Ann – 1989
The Virginia Reading to Learn Project is a state-wide project designed to help content area teachers at the middle school and secondary school levels teach their students how to comprehend their content area textbooks. Teachers learn instructional strategies and techniques within the framework of the total reading process incorporating reading,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Demonstration Programs, Grade 6, Inservice Teacher Education
Virginia State Dept. of Waste Management, Richmond. Div. of Litter & Recycling. – 1980
Operation Waste Watch is a series of seven sequential learning units which addresses the subject of litter control and solid waste management. Each unit may be used in a variety of ways, depending on the needs and schedules of individual schools, and may be incorporated into various social studies, science, language arts, health, mathematics, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School Science, Environmental Education, Grade 6

Ramey, Cynthia Anne – 1992
This study examined whether 81 sixth grade students from various socioeconomic and racial backgrounds perceived any disadvantages in being taught by a team of teachers rather than by a single teacher in a self-contained classroom. Critics of team teaching assert that a self-contained classroom provides more stability, security, structure, and…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Class Organization, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students
Pearson, Jim; Watkins, Bryna – 1991
This unit is one of a series that represents specific moments in history from which students focus on the meanings of landmark events. By studying a crucial turning point in history students become aware that choices had to be made by real human beings, that those decisions were the result of specific factors, and that they set in motion a series…
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indians, Colonial History (United States), Colonialism
Arrington, Alpheus, Jr. – 1989
This practicum report describes the development and implementation of a middle school program in King and Queen County in Virginia's Middle Peninsula designed to improve the achievement of sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students whose achievement scores were consistently lower than national and state averages. A literature review and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Guides, Developmental Continuity, Elementary School Students
Parpart, M. Leslie – 1995
Gifted students represent an under-served population in the education system, especially at the middle school level. These students require special attention in regard to their social and emotional needs. The first section of this paper explores the literature pertaining to the education of gifted middle school students and the definition and role…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academically Gifted, Class Organization, Cluster Grouping
Henrico County Public Schools, Glen Allen, VA. Virginia Vocational Curriculum and Resource Center. – 1996
Designed to supplement the Agriscience Education for the Middle School curriculum guide, this instructional packet provides lessons to enable agriscience teachers to bring basic science concepts into the classroom through practical, hands-on activities and experiments. The course is designed to develop in sixth-grade students an awareness of the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Sciences, Behavioral Objectives