The director of the Waterville, Maine High School Media Center, an ESEA Title III project, describes the center's facilities and programs. (SJ)

The Waterville, Maine High School Media Center, an ESEA Title III project, was studied to determine the effect it had had on Maine schools. Questionnaires were sent to superintendents and state librarians. This article reports the results. (SJ)

This guide is a list of available environmental education materials from the Project I-C-E Resource Materials Center. A one-page guide explaining procedures for using the Resource Center services is provided. It contains the service charges for shipping and handling, check-out periods, those who may use the resources, ordering instructions,…

This report describes 10 projects that deal with effective and efficient methods of teaching and learning. "Communication Skills Improvement for Junior High Students" has three objectives: (a) to build increased interest in reading, (b) to provide assistance in developing reading skills, and (c) to provide teachers with various aids to…

To provide material for decision or policy-makers with questions concerning policy, applications, and/or operations in the field of individualized instruction, 31 published books, journals and ERIC documents are listed and annotated. 32 Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III innovative projects described in PACE abstracts are listed by ES…

The problem of finding relevant material to answer a classroom need is the focus of this report. The Automated Instructional Resources Retrieval System (AIRR) is designed to assist teachers by storing information in a number of categories, including the following: media type, maturity level, length, producer or publisher, main curriculum area,…

This booklet describes approximately 30 instructional games submitted by Oregon teachers and teacher resource centers. The games are organized in two major sections--one for reading games and one for mathematics games. Within each section, games are grouped according to the similarity of their format; for example, all "road race" games…

This report describes the evaluation of the Regional Educational Service Center, which was established to develope and coordinate an improved curriculum in vocational education, instructional media, language arts, and library services. The evaluation objectives which provided the focus for the activities and related to each of the four subject…

Based on the belief that the most appropriate focus of a language arts curriculum is the process and content of communication, these several unipacs (instructional packets) explore some essential elements of communication which should be incorporated into a curricular theory: (1) abstraction , which is the assertion that words may be classified as…

The Nassau Educational Resource Center is a multimedia, multi-area curriculum and instructional materials center, with an educational communications training component. The catalog contains listings of the professional resources made available at the Center in the area of multi-ethnic studies by the Racial Ethnic Action Project (REAP). REAP,…

This final report presents the chronology of planning and operating a Title III grant. The following activities in the Abington School District, Abington, Pennsylvania, were financed in part by the Title III grant: (1) inservice training--teachers learned new approaches and techniques for individualizing instruction involving the use of different…

This booklet is a compendium of instructional units designed to supplement and thereby increase the effectiveness of 39 16mm films related to Mexican American studies available on loan from the Mexican American Curriculum Office. Units and films deal with a variety of topics such as applying for a job; arts, crafts, and architecture of Mexico;…

This pamphlet surveys the research and literature concerned with instructional media. In addition to reporting on research projects, case studies, and the professional judgment of media experts, the document criticizes research techniques used in various reports and studies. An extensive bibliography is included. Research for this review was…

This annotated bibliography of Mexican American materials gathered from 1971 to 1974 offers teachers and students a listing of available print and nonprint resources on Mexican American history, primarily concentrated in the social studies areas. The materials address themselves to the history, heritage, pride, and contributions of Mexican…

This final report reviews the ESEA Title III project which Evanston Township High School used to prepare self-instructional materials on film, audio tape, and video tape for use by students during independent study time. It lists the specific objectives of the project as being to: 1) determine the effectiveness of materials when used by other…