The 20 resource English units which comprise the guide for grades seven-nine are designed to supplement, rather than replace, regular instructional materials and are intended for use as enrichment materials to use as reinforcement exercises after regular English units have been taught. The purpose of the guide is to give students a chance to…

The 14 activities in the group counseling course, designed for the seventh grade level, concentrate on the individual goal of heightened self-awareness in order to make life career decisions. Group objectives emphasize: personal interest and values evaluation; better understanding of influences on personal values, of individual differences, of…

The career activities guide in science, part of an Idaho State Department of Vocational Education career exploration series for grades 7, 8, and 9, is designed as supplementary material to enrich the regular curriculum. Any one activity in the guide might be used without involving any other activities. The cross-referenced index indicates grades,…

This second of a 3-volume curriculum guide covering Grades 1-9 contains four master units which incorporate career education concepts into the existing curriculum for Grades 5-8. Focusing on careers in the city, state, and nation, the units for Grades 5 and 6 continue the career awareness activities developed for the primary grades. Activities in…

Developed by the Cincinnati Public Schools as part of a project designed to provide career orientation for students in grades 7 and 8, this manual is designed to provide activities and information concerning the infusion of seven career developmental areas in the curriculum. These developmental areas include self, individual and environment, the…

Materials contained in this career guidance unit are designed to help the grade 7 junior high school student recognize and develop self identity through understanding, developing, and establishing interpersonal and intrapersonal goals by identifying social skills through self inventories. The unit consists of three to five 45-minute periods…

This guide is designed to provide a process for identifying and developing understanding of the many ways that the law touches the individual at the community level. A study done by 7th grade students at Wellwood Middle School in the Fayetteville-Manlius School District in New York is described. A geographic feature in the community known as the…

Career orientation in the science curriculum introduces students to science-related careers and opportunities and enables them to prepare an educational program if they choose a science career. The curriculum guide is designed to aid junior high school science teachers in relating the seventh and eighth grade science curriculum to careers in…

Project COULD (Career Orientation Utilizing Language Development) was developed as a means of building skills, knowledges, and attitudes on elementary children's previously acquired backgrounds. Children learn to speak the grammar and vocabulary characteristic of the language heard most frequently at home and in the immediate environment. Each…

Adaptible to the regular home economics curriculum for the middle school (grades 7, 8, and 9), these resource units are designed to actively involve the student in learning activities and provide hands-on experiences. Three units of instruction are included and focus on the following topics: food; self, family, friends, and careers; and personal…

Guidelines for implementing an exploratory career education curriculum in agribusiness and natural resources for Rhode Island students in grades 7-9 are presented. Section 1 presents a rationale, general objectives, suggestions for teacher preparation, explanation and scoring of interest inventory and achievement test, and resource list…

The purpose of the units in the guide is to supplement, enrich, and reinforce the usual classroom instruction in seventh through ninth grade mathematics, and at the same time, introduce career education. The 14 resource units are not designed to be the primary teaching device for the math topics with which they deal. Each unit emphasizes an…

The junior high school instructional unit, part of a field-tested grade school level career education series, is designed to assist learners in relating present experiences to past and future ones. Before the main body of the lessons is described, field testing results are reported and key items are presented: the concepts, the estimated time for…

The four instructional units or mini-courses in the area of home economics are designed for the seventh through ninth grade levels. In the first two units (parts A and B), both six-week courses, provide seven learning activities in family living and 10 activities in personal culture focusing on: self and personality development, goals and values,…

The 17 seventh grade social studies activities, designed for career education, focus on: personal development; self-analysis; awareness of occupational choices; career development over a lifetime; knowledge of useful skills for appropriate careers, future job opportunities; occupational clusters; the interrelationship between work, leisure, and…