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Download full textWestern Curriculum Project on Canada Studies, Edmonton (Alberta). – 1971
The Powell River Project proposes in this progress report to design a curriculum with the Canadian urban environment as a major focus promoting cognitive and affective learnings that are verifiably appropriate using a team of primary teachers as designers. Activities and experiences will be selected which lead the child to learn his role in…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Concept Teaching, Curriculum Development
Western Curriculum Project on Canada Studies, Edmonton (Alberta). – 1971
The broad area selected by the Calgary Project was the development of a curriculum on urban aesthetics. During their work in 1970-71, they concluded that the best way to develop visual awareness was through the conceptual development of the visual components or the images and elements of design in terms of human values of urban areas. The modular…
Descriptors: Art Education, Community Study, Concept Teaching, Curriculum Development
Project Canada West. Inner City Project: Student Initiated Research into Problems of the Inner City.
Western Curriculum Project on Canada Studies, Edmonton (Alberta). – 1971
This project is in the process of developing a new curriculum, which they hope will provide senior high school inner city students with the requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will enable them in later life to participate effectively in the political life of their community. Specific cognitive objectives include: 1) knowledge of the…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Communication Skills, Concept Teaching, Conceptual Schemes
Western Curriculum Project on Canada Studies, Edmonton (Alberta). – 1971
Project SURT, The Study of Rural-Urban Transition, deals with the dynamics of Canadian society. The interdisciplinary curriculum to be produced will be instrumental in assisting tenth and eleventh grade students in two or three months, to assess the changes which are occuring in selected Canadian Communities, and to gain some proficiency in…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Study, Concept Teaching, Curriculum Development
Western Curriculum Project on Canada Studies, Edmonton (Alberta). – 1971
The curriculum material the Nanaimo District Senior High School curriculum development project is designing is based on the City of Nanaimo and its environs. The problem selected for their substantive research is the socio-political process in a growing city including the role and impact of: 1) civil service, elected officials, voters, and…
Descriptors: City Government, Civics, Community Study, Concept Teaching
Bogatz, Gerry; Kurfman, Dana – 1966
Intended to follow an introductory unit, this revised unit is one of several being prepared as part of a geography course based on a settlement theme provisionally planned for tenth grade students and requiring approximately four weeks. An extensive tryout conducted in 1965 in four areas of California, Illinois, Ohio, and New Jersey involved 47…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Concept Teaching, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development
Cvijanovic, Serge; Spero, Galila – 1976
The environmental education unit is intended for use by elementary school classroom teachers as they develop and implement programs to help students become visually aware of street environments. The teacher's guide is presented in two major sections. Section I consists primarily of reading and observing exercises. Lessons are entitled "What…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Architectural Education, Building Design, Concept Formation
