ELA Guidebooks is an English language arts curriculum for core instruction. Made by teachers for teachers, the ELA Guidebooks units ensure all students can read, understand, and express their understanding of complex, grade-level texts, ensuring their readiness for college or a career. Each text collection has a shared idea and contains authentic…

ELA Guidebooks is an English language arts curriculum for core instruction. Made by teachers for teachers, the guidebook units ensure all students can read, understand, and express their understanding of complex, grade-level texts, ensuring their readiness for college or a career. Each text collection has a shared idea and contains authentic texts…

Instructional materials are a key means to achieving the goals of science education--an enterprise that yields unique and worthwhile benefits to individuals and society. As states and districts move forward with adoption and implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) or work on improving their instruction to align with "A…

The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) incorporates challenging literacy standards into middle grades and high school content areas within a variety of academic disciplines, not just English/language arts courses. The Mathematics Design Collaborative (MDC) provides schools with instructional tools needed to help teachers understand and implement…

Presented are a brief program description and a model ecology unit drawn from the East Baton Rouge Parish (LA) pilot program for 150 K-8 gifted and talented children. (BB)

The activities comprising the career education resource guide explore careers in chemistry or chemistry-related fields with limited treatment given to other science-related occupations. Units providing a general framework of chemical principles and related activities alternate with the career units. The career concepts most applicable to each unit…

The guide for a one-year course in materials processing is part of a series of industrial arts curriculum materials developed by the State of Louisiana. Designed to appeal to both boys and girls regardless of their educational or career goals, the major units in the course are: the productive system, classification of materials, forming materials,…

This booklet was prepared for the parents of fourth-grade children who are participating in Chapter 1 programs in Louisiana. Activities which will give children practice with each of the mathematics skills on the fourth-grade Louisiana Basic Skills Test are included. For each skill there are at least two pages of practice, plus a test question…

This booklet was prepared for the parents of fifth-grade children who are participating in the Chapter 1 programs in Louisiana. Activities which will give children practice with every mathematics skill which must be learned before going to grade 6 are included. For each skill there are at least two pages of practice plus a test question similar to…

This curriculum guide for consumer mathematics was developed to establish statewide curriculum standards for the Louisiana Competency-based Education Program. Following an overview of the secondary school mathematics curriculum, 15 goals for the consumer mathematics course are listed. A pacing chart with suggested time periods for each major topic…

This curriculum guide for business mathematics was developed to establish statewide curriculum standards for the Louisiana Competency-based Education Program. Following an overview of the secondary school mathematics curriculum, eight goals for the business mathematics course are listed. A pacing chart with suggested time periods for each major…

This state curriculum guide was developed to reaffirm the importance of world history in the Louisiana social studies curriculum. It contains statements of the Louisiana social studies goals, program scopes and sequences, a list of 14 generalizations and related concepts, and a master course content outline. Seven study units are presented that…

Developed to stress the importance of the study of Western civilization, this Louisiana State high school curriculum guide contains social studies goals, program scopes and sequences, a list of 14 generalizations and related concepts, and a master course content outline. Ten study units teach about: (1) the ancient world; (2) the Middle Ages; (3)…

The tentative guide in visual communications for senior high schools is part of a series of industrial arts curriculum materials developed by the State of Louisiana. The outline format includes performance objectives with suggested activities and resources for the topics of creativity, graphic design, photographic composition and communications,…

Developed to enhance the quality of secondary school U.S. history instruction, this curriculum guide provides implementation suggestions and includes the Louisiana social studies: (1) program rationale; (2) curriculum goals; and (3) program scope and sequence. The guide is divided into sections that feature the following themes: (1) toward a new…