Designed for use by teachers of mentally gifted children, this book is one of a group of curriculum materials prepared by the California State Department of Education for a project on the mentally gifted. The contents of this book on literature are divided into four chapters, each of which deals with some aspect of literature instruction in…

The second of a three-volume set, this handbook provides direction to teachers of grades 4-6 for integrating occupational information with the academic subjects of social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science. Following a section on bulletin board ideas, separate subject sections present teacher and student directed activities which…

This booklet consists of guidelines for teaching language usage and skills, oral and written composition, and listening in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. A statement of approach introduces the three main sections of the guide. In the first section, programs are detailed in charts under the following four categories for each of the three…

In this story, a young Aleutian man relates his impressions about the arrival of the first Russian explorers on the Aleutian Islands in the 18th century. The story is to be used as part of the social studies unit, The Aleuts of the Eighteenth Century, to show the Aleutian perspective on the event. The narrator tells of the arrival of a strange…

This story is to be used as part of the social studies unit, The Aleuts of the Eighteenth Century, to show the Russian perspective on their first interaction with the Aleuts. A Russian trapper tells of his experiences on one of the first Russian ships to explore the Aleutian Islands in the 18th century. Written as a diary, the story describes…

Intended to facilitate the implementation of the activities suggested in the corresponding teacher's guide, this revised supplement and ditto packet contains visual aids and originals from which ditto masters may be made for duplicating multiple copies. The teacher's guide gives the timetable for when these materials are to be used. The…

The language arts curriculum activities presented in this guide were developed as one component of a total career education demonstration project for Appalachian Maryland, and are intended for use as supplements to the total middle or junior high school curriculum. Introductory material lists career education concepts and outlines career and…

Designed for use with the teacher's guide to the Spanish as a Second Language unit, this supplement and ditto packet includes visual aids and worksheets to help the teacher carry out the instructional and assessment activities. The illustrations are designed to help stimulate oral language and conceptual development. These visual materials…

Developed from a project called "Curriculum Experiences for Relevant Education", this activity guide provides specific strategies for infusing career education into the regular school curriculum. Suggested activities for grades K-8 in math, science, social studies, language arts, affective domain, physical education, music, and art are…

Reflecting the theme "our community", this unit consists of Kits 1-4 which are organized in three sections: reading, language analysis, and creative expression. The reading section includes two readers which contain three poems and five stories dealing with a grandmother's efforts to help support the family, a female pilot who successfully lands a…

An interdisciplinary career education program called Career Education Activity Kits (CEAK) for grades 5-6 are presented in the document. The materials in the teacher's handbook may be used as an aid to achieve pre-established instructional outcomes. Fourteen career generalizations were utilized to develop the CEAK materials. Each generalization…

The Living Library is a library where students can check out classroom pets as well as books. This guide describes the installation and implementation of a Living Library. The guide is presented in the following 10 sections: (1) a description of and rationale for a Living Library; (2) an implementation timeline developed for the intermediate…

The career awareness curriculum guide for grades 4-6 provides units of instruction for the subjects of language arts, social studies, science, mathematics, and health with each unit containing concepts, behavioral objectives, suggested learning activities, and suggested materials and resources for each of the three grades. An additional unit on…

One in a series of five volumes of teacher-developed learning modules on urban career education (K-12), this document contains learning activities for grades 4-6 which are intended to be infused in the following subject areas: language arts, social studies, mathematics, science, music, art, and physical education. Each module includes the…

One of a series of guides developed under the K-6 Teacher and Counselor Competencies in Career Education Program, this guide contains a section for each of the Grades 5-6 levels (Fifth Experience Level and Sixth Experience Level), each encompassing the two career education components: Subject Matter Areas (to reinforce science, language arts,…