The index is designed to assist counselors and teachers in choosing and using materials for developmental activities at the elementary level. Entries are listed alphabetically by title under the appropriate category listing. Among the 55 major categories are the following: behavior, decision making, environment, friends, hostility, name calling,…

An annotated list of children's reading material, covering both fiction and nonfiction. (SS)

This study was designed to evaluate: (1) the content of the primary I-III science curriculum in Somalia; (2) the instructional materials that back up the content and methodologies; and (3) the professional competence of the teachers in charge of teaching this subject. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire, observations, and unstructured…

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…

The purpose of the career awareness teacher's guide is to assemble in convenient form learning activities that will give elementary students a greater understanding and awareness of self and the occupational world that surrounds him. The guide is divided into grades 1-6 and organized into monthly sections. For each of the nine months there are…

Instead of developing a separate unit approach, economics can be integrated into the existing curriculum. Eight steps are listed to assist teachers in this process. The Joint Council on Economic Education has produced publications and TV video series, and there are workshops and centers for economic education available to teachers. (CS)

Prepared for persons "shopping" for elementary school level career education materials, the guide has approximately 84 entries, including books, book and pamphlet series, kits, films, filmstrips, records, cassettes, songbooks, picture-story prints, games and toys, and other materials. Entries are listed by grade level where appropriate and under…

Discusses resource material to help teachers locate children's books in Spanish. (NCR)

Describes several types of resources on the Internet for children's literature that may be used to support interdisciplinary instruction: central sites, teacher-created children's literature projects, author web sites, Internet-posted lesson plans, and electronic mailing lists. (SR)

The annotated bibliography of print and non-print materials associated with career education is for use in kindergarten through the third grade. The bibliography is arranged according to grade level and subdivided under each grade into typical course units usually associated with that grade. The headings are: Kindergarten (family, jobs, community,…

The annotated resource guide lists the addresses of 23 sources and describes the career related materials, films, kits, cassettes and other instructional aids offered. Elementary and secondary levels are represented. (MW)

These 55 activity cards were created to help teachers implement a unit on metric measurement. They were designed for students aged 5 to 10, but could be used with older students. Cards are color-coded in terms of activities on basic metric terms, prefixes, length, and other measures. Both individual and small-group games and ideas are included.…

In this document, developed by teachers during two career education workshops, are varied ideas on ways that career education can be integrated into subject matter areas in the elementary grades. Emphasis is placed on the use of local business as resources both for learning experiences in subject areas and for career awareness experiences.…