This curriculum presents an overview of responsibility as a concept intrinsic to the functioning of a democratic society. The curriculum has been developed to provide students with an increased awareness of the importance of responsibility in their own lives and its place in contemporary society, and to encourage their capacity and inclination to…

Long Island Sound is an estuary of national significance and provides important economic, recreational, and aesthetic value to the citizens of Connecticut and New York. Investigations have been conducted regarding living marine resources and nutrient loading. However, Long Island Sound is often overlooked as an educational resource. This guide is…

This curriculum unit presents an overview of privacy as a concept intrinsic to the functioning of a democratic society. The unit requires students to examine the concept of privacy, some differences among individuals and cultures in relation to it, its benefits and costs, and its proper scope and limits. The curriculum is organized around topical…

This curriculum is designed to help students understand and apply basic principles and considerations useful in examining issues of justice so they can determine for themselves what would be just in a particular situation. From such activities, students should gain an increased awareness of the importance of justice in their own lives and its…

This booklet presents a step-wise sequence for incorporating environmental objectives into any instructional program. The process involves determination of awareness, selection of the environmental problem, identifying subject area units, writing environmental objectives, specifying skills, naming concepts and content, developing unit…

The curriculum guide on School Pedestrian Safety was developed because of the need for an understanding of good safety practices. The guide covers three major areas: Pedestrian Safety, Bus Safety, and Bicycle Safety. The project has been developed in a loose-leaf binder to allow teachers a great deal of flexibility in developing their own program.…

Enabling teachers to present a detailed unit on smoking is an objective of this curriculum guide. It organizes information which, if made a relevant part of the student's experience, attempts to help him effectively resist the pressures to begin smoking. Seventeen units, arranged in sequential order, cover cardiovascular and respiratory systems,…

Designed to serve as a supplement to published materials currently available, this word processing instructional/learning materials guide is divided into five major sections: word processing equipment, dictation techniques, case problems in word processing, career opportunities in word processing, and phases in establishing an instructional word…

This publication is designed as a model to assist elementary teachers in developing environmental education activities in all subject areas. Both public school and college educators developed this guide to help make children aware of the value of the environment and of the responsibility they have for conserving it. Discussions of the curriculum…

This publication is designed as a model to assist middle school and high school teachers in developing environmental education activities in all subject areas. Both public school and college educators developed this guide to help make young people aware of the value of the environment and of the responsibility they have for conserving it.…

A sample unit focusing on Thanksgiving, to be used in conuunction with a K-2 World of Work unit, introduces the curriculum guide. The remainder of the Career Motivation segment of the Ohio Career Development Model consists of outlines for several units in each of the areas of World of Work, self, economics, and the individual and his environment,…

The concept that society must possess an ecological conscience which can relate to economic, social, political, and other disciplines of culture to meet the challenge of maintaining a quality environment, represents the basic philosophical rationale for these instructional materials. They are designed to give specific emphasis to the ecological…

Prepared with the aim of strengthening health education in the Washington schools, this working copy of a curriculum guide provides resource information for teachers in grades 7-12. It is sequentially oriented with materials related to students' health needs and interests. Thirteen units of instruction are outlined: alcohol, anatomy and…

As the first volume of a set of eight study guides in the field of environmental education, this curriculum guide for teachers utilizes a life-centered approach to enable students to learn about their world and its life processes. Level One is designed to help pupils in kindergarten and grades one and two to understand living things and the needs…

The ideas and concepts of Carl Jung are the basis for the materials of this curriculum guide for teaching gifted students at the secondary level. Entitled "Man and His Symbols," the guide is organized in five parts: (1) Approaching the Unconscious; (2) Ancient Myths and Modern Man; (3) The Process of Individuation; (4) Symbolism in the…