How can students achieve an understanding of multiplication that allows them to go beyond recall to explain their thinking? Author and mathematics education professor Juli Dixon introduces a program that teachers can seamlessly integrate into existing mathematics instruction. Learn six tactics to help you shift from an anxiety-producing,…

The career exploration booklet in the Room to Grow series is intended for use in the fifth and sixth grades. Its purpose is to motivate each student to investigate the self and to become aware of and develop individual potentials and abilities. The booklet may also supplement career development activities in other grades. Each student should have…

The purpose of the project outlined in this booklet is to enable upper elementary students to become familiar with the various departments of "The New York Times," to cope with headlines and lead paragraphs, and to develop a genuine interest in an adult newspaper. A general outline of the project by the teacher is provided, followed by…

This career exploration instructional unit is one of several resulting from the rural southwestern Colorado CEPAC Project (Career Education Process of Attitude Change). Using the construction of a dog house to give meaning to measurement skills and area computation, the unit includes (1) five behavioral objectives, the teaching strategy, the…

The third of this series of three volumes on interdisciplinary environmental learning experiences for elementary students is aimed at grades 5 and 6 and deals with the comunity environment of the student. Titles of the eight units included in this volume are: Probleem Solving; How to Plan a Clean-up Campaign in the Local Community; Scars upon the…

The collection of lesson units for grades 5 and 6 is part of a K-6 career education program. Learning activities relate the subject areas directly to occupations, emphasizing how the skills of the various disciplines are needed in different jobs. Some of the suggested techniques are field trips, guest speakers, and role playing. Included also are…

Contained in this publication are activity units for grades five and six on the following topics: the individual and his environments, world of work, self, economics, education and training, employability and work adjustment, and vocational decision making. Each unit gives developmental objectives, related behavioral objectives, suggested…

Thirty classroom activities in career guidance for grades 5-6 are presented in this guide, one of a series of three for elementary curriculum infusion. The activities are organized into three areas: interpersonal effectiveness, work and interpersonal life skills, and life career planning. Each activity lists subject matter area (e.g., language…

The opportunity for grade 5-6 students to explore careers and technology is provided by the curriculum guide, which is a component of Project LET (Learning Experiences in Technology). Inherent in each component is an awareness of careers and the way man does things. The guide is intended to be used as a working copy for professional staff. The…

The Integrated Teaching Units for grades five and six constitute the methodology used to implement the career education concepts of Project LET (Learning Experiences in Technology). The document is designed to be used with the project implementation guide. The units were developed from the existing elementary curriculum and are designed to be…

The teacher's guide is intended for use in conjunction with 15-minute instructional television lessons featuring occupational clusters (construction, communications and media, business and office, health, industrial, transportation, public and personal services, consumer and homemaking, marketing and distribution), for fourth, fifth, and sixth…

This demonstration project provides intensive instruction in reading and mathematics to selected fifth graders in the 1974-75 year and for selected fifth and sixth graders in 1975-76 in order to raise the reading and mathematics performance of underachievers to a level commensurate with measured ability. The sharing of learning activities in…

Objectives of the SPICE (School Programs in Career Education) curriculum guides are concerned with the areas of self-concept, dignity of work, constant change in the world of work, and relevance of school to work. The career education curriculum in the volume presents units which may be taught as separate subjects, incorporated into all areas of…

This environmental education resource activity kit provides an open-ended structure for fifth- and sixth-grade pupils to pursue the study of environmental topics and problems. The design of the kit concentrates on nine types of learning activities (called encounter activities) to enable pupils to learn about the natural resources, the biophysical…

This career education activity manual for elementary teachers of fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students is intended to be used either as a supplement to a career education program or as an independent program in itself. Activities are designed to help students become aware of self, develop an understanding of sexism, and recognize their unique…