The article favorably reviews "PREP for Effective Family Living," a curriculum designed to help adolescents develop social skills and prepare for adult family life. Curriculum strengths include organization of objectives and format of the student materials. A weakness is lack of clear correlation between the student handbook and the…

TEACHERS IN THE JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS ARE PROVIDED WITH TEACHING OUTLINES, TEACHING DEVICES, AND OTHER MATERIALS TO DEVELOP PUPILS' SKILLS, APTITUDES, AND PROFICIENCY IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES AND SPORTS. A GRADED AND SEQUENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ACTIVITIES IN A UNIFIED PROGRAM, BASED UPON THE CONCEPT OF UNIT TEACHING IN SEASONAL ACTIVITIES, IS…

Presented is a curriculum guide and teaching activities for a K-12 program in environmental education. The program is based on forty-four important environmental education concepts. These concepts are sequenced according to grade level. Activities to teach each concept are suggested. The concepts are organized around the interdependency of living…

Focusing on Hinduism, India, and Indian literature, this course guide offers help in organizing a course or units of instruction. The guide contains a historical outline of the evolution of Hinduism over a period of 3,000 years; a glossary listing terms in the guide and in Hindu literature; five courses of different time lengths (the literature of…

Enabling teachers to present a detailed unit on smoking is an objective of this curriculum guide. It organizes information which, if made a relevant part of the student's experience, attempts to help him effectively resist the pressures to begin smoking. Seventeen units, arranged in sequential order, cover cardiovascular and respiratory systems,…

The Military Curriculum Project at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education has been responsible for reviewing approximately 1,400 military courses and selecting those which are applicable to civilian vocational and technical programs. The course materials have been found to be useful as classroom materials and as curriculum…

Law related curriculum materials are enumerated, briefly described, and addresses are given for further information. (DE)

This activity oriented guide is divided into four sections dealing with the Hydrologic Cycle; Human Activities; Ecological Perspectives; and Social and Political Factors. Each activity contains seven parts: (1) an introduction; (2) questions about the activity; (3) necessary equipment; (4) procedures; (5) results obtained by using the study; (6)…

This publication is designed as a model to assist middle school and high school teachers in developing environmental education activities in all subject areas. Both public school and college educators developed this guide to help make young people aware of the value of the environment and of the responsibility they have for conserving it.…

The curriculum outlined in this guide emphasizes the two major goals of literature appreciation in junior and senior high school as stimulating the love of reading and the lifetime reading habit, and leading students to see literature as the means of reexperiencing and understanding their own lives. The guide lists general departmental…

This drug education guide provides a valuable resource for educators, helping them to understand the problems associated with drug misuse and the extent and significance of drug problems in schools. The guide is designed to help give local schools the leadership and tools with which to initiate an effective program for their own needs. Section 1…

Building maintenance is a basic two-year trade education course requiring 2 1/2 hours of study on each of 160 teaching days per year. Student abilities should range from those capable of the simplest custodial work to those who may eventually be superintendents of building complexes. The syllabus is organized in sections by traditional skills…

This publication develops the six basic concepts in the Dade County Teacher Guide, "Drug Abuse Education." Fourteen lessons for independent study are presented with several lessons for each concept. The lessons are useful for students in the intermediate grades and upward, depending on specific needs and abilities. Each lesson starts with a…

Prepared with the aim of strengthening health education in the Washington schools, this working copy of a curriculum guide provides resource information for teachers in grades 7-12. It is sequentially oriented with materials related to students' health needs and interests. Thirteen units of instruction are outlined: alcohol, anatomy and…

A GUIDE WAS PRODUCED FOR STUDENT USE IN NINTH-GRADE STUDY OF "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE." THE GUIDE PRESENTED SEVERAL ALTERNATE APPROACHES FOR UNDERSTANDING THE PLAY AND LEARNING ITS CONTENT. A MAJOR EMPHASIS OF THE GUIDE WAS PLACED ON THREE FORMS OF STUDENT QUESTIONS, RELATED TO SPECIFIC ACTS AND SCENES, THE CHARACTERS IN THE DRAMA, AND…