Developing and implementing curriculum that is relevant, challenging, integrative, and exploratory is central to successful middle grades education (Erb, 2005; Jackson & Davis, 2000; National Middle School Association [NMSA], 2003, 2010). However, as one language arts teacher suggests, it can be difficult to create curricula that meet these…

This book contains all the worksheets needed to accompany the Comprehensive School Mathematics Program books for the Intermediate Grades, Part V. It includes 66 worksheets for The World of Numbers, 12 worksheets for the Languages of Strings and Arrows, 15 worksheets for Geometry and Measurement, and 11 worksheets for Probability and Statistics.…

Curriculum materials for use in the vocational guidance of students in grades five, six, and seven are presented. These materials are based on several vocational development theories. The goal is the utilization of learning activities in the classroom to show students the processes through which career decisions may be made. (NS)

This Comprehensive School Mathematics Program (CSMP) guide is divided into three major parts. The first, General Introduction, contains: (1) CSMP Viewpoint; (2) Program Description; (3) Guidelines for Evaluating the Program; (4) Commonly Asked Questions about the CSMP Curriculum and Suggested Answers, and (5) A Note to the Parents of CSMP…

Lesson plans and teaching suggestions for an interdisciplinary approach to environmental education are presented in this teacher's guide for use in the National Environmental Education Development (NEED) program. The program attempts to encourage a student to develop an awareness of his environment that will lead to a personal sense of involvement…

Contends that the use of commercial published curricula, particularly textbooks and teacher's guides, is widespread in U.S. church-sponsored programs of religious education. Reports on case studies of five church-school teachers on their curriculum development and lesson-planning procedures. (CFR)

The purpose of this guide is to assist teachers in planning and organizing for the use of computers as part of their everyday mathematics curriculum. Mathematics was chosen as the subject area to demonstrate how students can be taught problem-solving skills and strategies with the computer. However, this computer integration guide provides…

This report describes the development of a complete set of curriculum materials that uses the Teams-Games-Tournament (TGT) instructional process for elementary language arts instruction for grades four through six. The TGT instructional process is a cooperative group-teaching method that requires materials to be objective based and presented in…

Compares teacher predictions with student-use data for nine teacher-selected activities during field testing of the Human Sciences Program (HSP). The comparison reveals that in six of the nine activities, a large discrepancy exists between teacher predictions and actual student-use data. (HM)

The study examines the instructional use of Channel One in a middle school over 18 months' time. Channel One is a 12-minute educational television news program broadcast daily to over 12,000 U.S. secondary schools. It is argued that while many students watch the programming, there is only a small minority of the classrooms where teachers actively…

Emphasizing that media skills are an integral part of the school curriculum, this product provides a guideline for the planning and implementation of media skills in the middle school. A number of activities are outlined for reinforcing the following objectives: media center orientation (coordinatd by media specialists to be carried on throughout…

This guide represents the final experimental version of an extended pilot project which was conducted in the United States between 1973 and 1976. The manner of presentation and pedagogical ideas and tools are based on the works of George and Frederique Papy. They are recognized as having introduced colored arrow drawings ("papygrams")…

Described is a life science program developed for educable mentally retarded students ages 10-14 by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) (KW)

This curriculum guide seeks to contribute vision to the values and goals of outdoor education and to show their relevance to all curricular areas. Direction is provided for developing and implementing a dynamic curriculum in outdoor education. The guide is divided into three sections. Section I addresses the informational needs of administrators…

An instructional program based on a learning hierarchy and involving the addition of fractions was presented to fourth grade students in a pretest - posttest design. The results of the tests were analyzed using both Walbesser's and White's techniques for validation. There was sufficient disagreement in the results to prevent a conclusion of…