This environmental unit is one of a series designed for integration within an existing curriculum. The unit is self-contained and requires minimal teacher preparation. The philosophy of the units is based on an experience-oriented process that encourages self-paced independent student work. In this unit, students construct a stream profile based…

The document provides a collection of teacher-developed classroom materials for use in seventh, eighth, and ninth grade career development programs. Four packets are offered, presenting classroom materials for English, mathematics, science, and social studies. Each packet includes classroom materials organized according to grade level presenting:…

This is a resource guide for teachers, curriculum coordinators, curriculum developers, teacher trainers, and other educators interested in values education. The volume is the revised and expanded edition of ED 103 284. An introduction outlines and explains the guidelines used to formulate and organize the analyses of values educational materials.…

This instruction unit on population issues for use in high school social studies classes has been designed to provide the social studies teacher with a wide variety of instructional options. These are oriented toward providing non-college-bound juniors and seniors with visually stimulating activity-oriented instruction on vital social issues…

This book is directed to educators who would like to see anthropology assume a greater role in the elementary and secondary curricula. Chapter One traces the growth in the importance of anthropology as a part of the school curriculum from the second world war to the present. Chapter Two discusses the reasons for including anthropology in the…

A study sought to determine (1) whether a television program designed to enhance personal, social, and emotional development can have positive effects on children's behavior and, (2) what elements in a child's environment produce the greatest positive effects. Two components of the environment were studied: (1) training of the adult care-givers to…

Personal decisions and life-styles and how they have social and demographic consequences is the focus of the grades 7-12 population education unit developed for the Baltimore public schools. The unit attempts to have the student see himself as part of his present family unit and as a decision maker who will make choices about his own future…

This unit deals with mapping the urban environment. The unit is designed to help the student visualize his surroundings, read and interpret maps, and create maps. These understandings and skills are designed to help the student develop a sense of self-control and a sense of personal control over his environment. The unit is a student oriented,…

This guide, for use at the junior high level, is aimed at helping our youth become more knowledgeable concerning the environment and associated problems, thus making them aware of how to solve these problems and motivating them to work toward their solution. Among the subjects discussed are art in nature, erosion, body pollution, water pollution,…

This interdisciplinary program, developed for secondary students, contains 20 water quality activities that can either be used directly in, or as a supplement to, curriculum in Science, Home Economics and Industrial Arts, Mathematics, Health, English, and Social Studies. The topics investigated include: pollution analysis, industrial need,…

This curriculum guide presents a 3-year program, for children in kindergarten and early primary grades, designed to facilitate continuous learning in a non-graded setting. The guide describes how learning experiences can be adjusted to the student's developmental needs and abilities in a wide range of curriculum areas: language arts, mathematics,…

This handbook of economics reviews current economic activities in the United States, encouraging thinking and further study for the reader, rather than providing answers. The book provides a basic framework of knowledge in economics for a better informed citizenry to think clearly and objectively about economic issues in an attempt to combat…

This mathematics guide, for use in grades 9-12, is one of a series of guides, K-12, that were developed by teachers to help introduce environmental education into the total curriculum. Since the nature of mathematics is abstract, students do not learn mathematics from ecology, nor ecology from mathematics. But, by observation and manipulation of…

An inter-disciplinary course entitled "Cybernation and Man," developed by the School of Engineering at San Jose State College, tries to evaluate the many problems posed to man by the expansion of his technology. It is contended in the course that the most effective approach to control of complex social phenomena within a technological…

Printed materials, classroom equipment and audio-visual resources are listed for language arts, arithmetic, social studies, and science for the primary, intermediate, junior high, and senior high levels. Publishers' addresses and descriptions of the materials are given; also included are lists of professional books, bulletins, and curriculum…