This teacher's guide, part of a sequential K-12 series, provides objectives and learning activities for social studies students in grade 10. Five major sections focus on learning, inquiry, and discussion skills, concepts, and values and moral reasoning. Learning skills stress listening, speaking, viewing, reading, writing, map, and statistical…

Part of a K-12 sequential series, this teacher's guide provides objectives and activities for social studies students in kindergarten and first grade. Five major sections cover learning, inquiry, and discussion skills, concepts, and values and moral reasoning. Learning skills include listening, speaking, viewing, reading, writing, and map and…

This report focuses on the background and development of three sequential courses for grades 8, 9, and 10, and the findings and evaluation on these new instructional materials prepared by the Social Studies Research Committee. Part I of this report makes explicit a set of seven Basic Assumptions about reasons for change in the social studies. Part…

Using the movement approach, a physical education teacher has designed a k-6 program in which concepts are organized to progress from unit to unit as well as from grade to grade. The program helps children retain skills and information. Content progressions for striking (net games) are shown. (PP)

Part of a sequential K-12 program, this teacher's guide provides objectives and activities for teaching social studies in grades 11 and 12. The document contains five major sections which correspond to the skill or concept being covered: learning, inquiry, and discussion skills, concepts, and values and moral reasoning. Learning skills include…

Thirty-four classroom games are listed in this self-contained guide for the purpose of teaching civil defense concepts and protective content as an integral part of the K-12 social studies curriculum. Objectives of the games in this book are: to develop an awareness of civil defense; to learn vocabulary used in civil defense functions; and, to…

Describes the theoretical backgrounds and empirical findings of three experimental studies in which computer-based response-sensitive strategies were investigated using concept learning tasks. The strategy applied focused on discrimination learning, generalization learning, and classification skill development in concept learning. A general…

Part of a sequential K-12 program, this teacher's guide provides objectives and activities for students in grade 5. Five major sections correspond to learning, inquiry, and discussion skills, concepts, and values and moral reasoning. Learning skills include listening, speaking, viewing, reading, writing, map, and statistical abilities. Students…

This teacher's guide, part of a sequential K-12 series, provides objectives and activities for social studies students in grade 7. Five major sections focus on learning, inquiry, and discussion skills, concepts, and values and moral reasoning. Learning skills stress listening, speaking, viewing, reading, writing, map, and statistical abilities.…

This teacher's guide, part of a sequential K-12 series, provides objectives and activities for social studies students in grade 8. Five major sections focus on learning, inquiry, and discussion skills, concepts, and values and moral reasoning. Learning skills stress listening, speaking, viewing, reading, writing, map, and statistical abilities.…

This teacher's guide, part of a sequential K-12 series, provides objectives and activities for social studies students in grade 9. Five major sections focus on learning, inquiry, and discussion skills, concepts, and values and moral reasoning. Learning skills stress listening, speaking, viewing, reading, writing, map, and statistical abilities.…

TWO STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING MULTIPLE-DISCRIMINATION TASKS WERE REPORTED. THE "MULTIPLE CONCEPT" PRESENTS SIMPLE DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVERAL RELATED CONCEPTS AT THE BEGINNING OF INSTRUCTION. INCREASINGLY COMPLEX MATERIAL PERTAINING TO THESE CONCEPTS IS THEN GRADUALLY INTRODUCED. THE "SINGLE CONCEPT" PRESENTS ONE CONCEPT AT A TIME,…

Briefly reviews theoretical developments in adaptive instructional systems, defines six characteristics of intelligent computer-based management systems, and presents theory and research of Minnesota Adaptive Instructional System (MAIS). Generic programing codes for amount and sequence of instruction, instructional display time, and advisement…

A computer-based instructional (CBI) system was developed following a conceptualization of the teaching-learning process and was used to conduct research relating to an idiographic model of tutorial instruction and to investigate basic variables in learning and transfer. To adapt teaching modes to individual learners, the CBI system (acronym:…

A basic introduction to human relations for the kindergarten child is provided in this teacher's guide. The main generalization for the unit is "School is a place where children with different backgrounds meet and work together. Each child contributes his experiences to the group." Some of the supporting ideas in the unit are: 1) Children in…