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Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins. Dept. of Vocational Education. – 1975
The purpose of the six units in the seventh-ninth grade curriculum guide is to supplement, enrich, and reinforce the usual classroom instruction in social studies while introducing information about careers. The activities are intended as enrichment to reinforce a regular social studies unit. The units are vehicles for the infusion of occupational…
Descriptors: American History, Business Education, Career Education, Career Exploration
Holstein, Herbert B.; And Others
The occupational resource unit, one of a series encompassing grade levels 1-10, was prepared by the Lincoln County (West Virginia) Exemplary Project staff to provide career exploration learning activities for the seventh and eighth grades. The career orientation materials are designed to give students a broad knowledge of the characteristics and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Bibliographies, Career Education, Career Exploration
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Educational Communications. – 1974
The extent to which the use of the Graphics Expression Reading Improvement System (GERIS) improved the reading skills of Title I was investigated. The GERIS program, which combines an eight-step process in language skill development with student-created television productions, was used at two schools during the 1972-73 school year. One hundred…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Television, Elementary School Students
Cincinnati Public Schools, OH. – 1970
Among the challenges facing the U.S. as it enters the 1970s has been one to public education to adapt its program to technological change and its social effects; this manual deals with a limited aspect of this problem. Seventh and eighth grade social studies instruction is the focal point of the effort, and career orientation is the theme by which…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Career Opportunities, Career Planning, Cognitive Objectives
Wyoming State Dept. of Education, Cheyenne. – 1969
GRADES OR AGES: K-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The introductory material includes sections on curriculum improvement, new social studies, and scope and sequence. A suggested conceptual framework for the program is presented in the form of a chart, with columns for history, anthropology-sociology,…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Curriculum Guides, Economics, Elementary School Curriculum
McConnell, Spero – 1971
This political studies course for grades seven through nine emphasizes the relationship between youth and law, illustrating the way law works in a democracy. Emphasis is upon students learning to appreciate the need for law and knowing their basic rights and responsibilities as American citizens. Rather than a memorizing exercise, it is an attempt…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Behavioral Objectives, Case Studies, Civil Liberties
Moore, John A. – 1971
The elective (7-9) course in world religions outlined in this guide is designed to fit the quinmester organization of schools. The course is described as a study of world religions, focusing on religion as an institution in society. It includes effects of religion on people, governments, and internal relations. The guide is divided according to:…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Behavioral Objectives, Christianity, Cultural Context
Cold, Ron – 1971
The Quinmester world studies course for grades 7 through 9 investigates concepts of prehistory, culture, and civilization, offering an in depth understanding of the reasons why and how civilizations rise and fall. Emphasis is on comparing past and present civilizations. One major purpose of the course is for students to comprehend that…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Archaeology, Area Studies, Behavioral Objectives
Abrams, Grace C.; Schmidt, Fran – 1971
This study of the effort and failures to maintain world peace in this century is intended as an elective, quinmester course for grades 7 through 9. It encompasses the concept of nationalism and the role it plays in the decisions that lead to war, and organizations that have tried and are trying to preserve or bring about peace. Among other goals…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Behavioral Objectives, Conflict Resolution, Curriculum Guides
Hargreaves, Andy; Earl, Lorna; Moore, Shawn; Manning, Susan – 2001
This book examines the realities of educational change from the perspective of reform-minded teachers, focusing on how the professional work of teachers mediates the translation of the new educational orthodoxy into sustained and enhanced levels of student learning. The book charts the perceptions and experiences of 29 teachers in grades 7 and 8…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Alternative Assessment, Change Strategies
Plank, Kristie J.; Snyder, Maureen M.; Santeford, Deborah; Bautz, Kim; Repka-Peters, Margie; Thornburgh, Roberta; Bistricky, Stacey; Buse, Anne – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1999
Provides a library media activity designed for social studies and focused on retrieving and comparing bibliographic information from print and nonprint sources. Describes library media skills objectives; curriculum (subject area) objectives; grade levels (7 through 9); print, CDROM and other resources; instructional roles; procedures; evaluation;…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational Resources
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Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie; Longshore, Douglas L.; Ellickson, Phyllis L.; McCaffrey, Daniel F. – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of a revised state-of-the-art drug prevention program, Project ALERT, on risk factors for drug use in mostly rural midwestern schools and communities. Fifty-five middle schools from South Dakota were randomly assigned to treatment or control conditions. Treatment-group students received 11…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Middle School Students, Prevention, Drug Use
Beaton, Albert E.; And Others – 1996
The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is the largest and most ambitious study undertaken by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement. Forty-five countries collected data in more than 30 languages. Five grade levels were tested in the two subject areas, so that more than half a million…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Family Environment, Foreign Countries
Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale. Dept. of Agricultural Education and Mechanization. – 1993
This curriculum guide, the second in a set of six, contains teacher and student materials for a unit on the electromagnetic spectrum prepared as part of a seventh- and eighth-grade agricultural science curriculum that is integrated with science instruction. The guide contains the state goals and sample learning objectives for each goal for…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Sciences, Classroom Techniques
Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale. Dept. of Agricultural Education and Mechanization. – 1993
This curriculum guide, the last in a set of six, contains teacher and student materials for a unit on energy conservation prepared as part of a seventh- and eighth-grade agricultural science curriculum that is integrated with science instruction. The guide contains the state goals and sample learning objectives for each goal for students in grades…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Sciences, Classroom Techniques
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