The supplementary activities guide was written to coordinate with a kindergarten textbook in English as a Second Language (ESL) used in the Houston (Texas) Independent School District. It contains eight instructional units with worksheets, alternative activities, and blackline masters for convenient reproduction. Each unit consists of a series of…

This curriculum guide contains the Southeastern Education Laboratory/Project Language Lessons 17-32 stressing listening, speaking, and reading readiness for disadvantaged kindergarten children. The lessons are designed to be used in the SEL's mobile preschool units or as readiness materials for kindergarten. The major emphasis of this intervention…

Growth in painting ability is dependent on frequent painting experiences, on thoughtful motivation, and on proper guidance and evaluation of progress. This guide includes materials and equipment, motivation, guidance procedures, activities, and evaluation for each grade level. A working space with materials and equipment in the classroom needs to…

This handbook for teachers contains language lessons for young children. Through sequencing and feedback, the program uses a direct method of teaching and learning standard English. It is an expository approach, in which progress is based on performance, rather than on the knowledge of rules. Each unit is organized so that language development and…

This educational program on drugs and alcohol provides a "No-Use" message to students. The curriculum maintains that alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs are unhealthy and harmful, and that society's laws and values are to be respected. The lessons build students' resistance to influences that encourage drug abuse and they promote safe,…

The guide lists seven program objectives and 15 activities guides for meeting the objectives. Included in each activity is an introduction, outdoor activity, classroom activity, and evaluation. Sample activities are: Animals Use Natural Materials to Provide Food and Shelter, Differences in Soil, Decomposition, Man-made or Natural Objects, Food…

In this guide for the SMSG text materials for kindergarten, an overview describes the philosophy behind the program. Mathematical background is presented, followed by activities to develop concepts on sets, recognition of geometric figures, comparison of sets, subsets, joining and removing, comparison of sizes and shapes, ordering, using geometric…

The curriculum guide for a series of French language lessons includes four units graded for levels K, 1, 2, and 3. The units cover the topics of the family, autumn, identity, and school. In each unit there are four graded lessons. Each lesson contains a set of objectives for the lesson, followed by a series of exercises matched to the objectives.…

The developmental unit, intended to become part of a total K-12 career education curriculum, is designed for use at the kindergarten level. The overall purpose is to promote in the learner an understanding that the three basic skills he is acquiring in school are relevant to those required in everyday life. The unit provides approximately 10 hours…

This guide, written to provide teachers with alternative methods and materials for individualizing elementary language arts, contains six chapters. It also includes several diagrams analyzing instructional variables in a manner that provides teachers with alternatives for classroom instruction. The chapters are "Options in Program…

This handbook has been prepared as an aid to teachers, supervisors, and administrators as they select and organize science programs in the elementary grades. It has been organized around six large subject areas: living things; our growing bodies; air, water, and weather; the earth and its composition; the solar system and beyond; and matter and…

This Fort Bend (Texas) social studies curriculum guide for kindergarten covers six six-week periods, and the 29 course outlines include the topics to be covered, the nine main goals and their supporting objectives, and a materials correlation key. The topics include family, the five senses, nursery rhymes, seasons, safety, holidays,…

Designed to fit into existing curricula, the loose-leaf guide includes instructional aids, resources, and units for grades K-6. Each grade is presented separately, but with informative introductory material duplicated in each. For all grades, materials include information sheets for instructors about bicycles and traffic safety, and a list of…

Presented are first-revision materials of the K-12 unified science program implemented in the public schools of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Detailed descriptions are given of the roles of students and teachers, purposes of bibliography, major concepts in unified science, processes of inquiry, scheme and model for scientific literacy, and…

The mathematics curriculum of the Fort Benton school system was designed with funds under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to present all students with a basic knowledge of mathematics and to provide the gifted child with an opportunity to develop to the best of his ability the mathematical skills and theory demanded by a…