Describes results of an Indiana study to determine what proportion of the typical teacher aide's time involved in instructional activities deals with different-size groups of children, pursuing various academic activities, and using various instructional materials. Teachers use aides mostly to assist them in discussion/review with a single child…

Incubators in the Classroom is an extension program designed to teach fourth-graders about egg hatching. More than 15,000 Indiana students have used the learning materials, which include incubators, lesson guides, and CD-ROM learning guides. The Purdue extension service is in the process of conducting critical evaluation of the program. (SK)

This packet contains 21 lessons, each providing ideas and teaching activities to accompany a specific story or book to be used to teach economic concepts. The booklet contains practical, classroom-tested lesson plans to use with popular children's stories. The economic concepts used in this curriculum are identified in "Indiana's Social…

Materials are presented for teaching elementary school students about the pioneer period in southern Indiana, 1800-1850. A project requiring students to create the travel journal of a pioneer family is featured. An outline providing basic facts about this era is included, as is a 17-item bibliography of sources for further research. (DB)

This packet contains many of the elements of the earlier publications, "The Mini-Economy: Integrating Economics into the Elementary Curriculum" and "Teaching Economics in the Mini-Economy." This revised edition offers a new section on implementing the mini-economy in the middle school. The classroom mini-economy is a proven,…

Materials for teaching a unit about the Underground Railroad (the system set up to assist fleeing, runaway slaves heading north) in Indiana are presented. Specifically, the Western Route that passed through Daviess County in Indiana is examined. The materials provide background on the Underground Railroad and the Western Route, plans for teaching…

A study was made to find out the average amount of time that teachers in South Bend, Indiana spent designing audiovisual aids and to determine their awareness of the availability of audiovisual production classes. A questionnaire was sent to 30% of the teachers of grades 1-6 asking the amount of time they normally spent producing audiovisual…

In order to determine if there is an adequate amount of storage in the elementary classrooms of the South Bend Community School Corporation, 180 teachers representing a random selection of 30 percent of all K-6 teachers were sent a questionnaire by means of the school's mail service. Responses from 97 (54 percent) of the sample were utilized.…

This grade 3 interdisciplinary resource unit uses Evansville, Indiana and the Ohio River as its focus for social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science lessons. Text, pictures, and maps are provided to teach social studies lessons in history, geography, and map skills, and the student exercises include tests on vocabulary words and map…