This instructor's guide contains materials that are intended for use as part of the regular auto mechanics curriculum and that provide information necessary to convert a gasoline engine with a niminum of modifications to successfully be operated on ethanol alcohol. It accompanies a student guide that is available separately. Contents include a…

A high school course in early childhood growth and development is described. It is offered as part of an exploratory career program and is scheduled for a full school year for three hours a day. Students acquire entry level skills in a laboratory nursery school. (AJ)

A program designed to teach daily living skills to high school students of varying abilities is described. Teaching methods emphasize resource person, field trips, and actual experience; objectives are set in the areas of business, home economics, and social studies to enable students to live responsibly after high school. (AJ)

Describes an individualized aviation course for high school seniors. The course, broken down into Learner Education Guides with students progressing at their own learning rates, consists of the history of aviation, career opportunities, the space program, basic aeronautics, navigation, meteorology, Federal Aviation Administration regulations and…

Describes a unit on aerospace education which can be presented in a social studies class. Outlined are the aims, materials and procedures for presenting a short unit on the impact of science and technology on society. (BR)

Intended for use with secondary school students, a course on effective listening has material for an 18-week course to meet daily for a minimum of 45 minutes. The objectives are to build an awareness of the factors that will affect listening ability and to build the kind of aural experiences that can produce good listening habits. An integral part…

The purpose of this study was to provide New Orleans public school administrators and teachers with the information and tools needed to design a systems-based mastery learning (ML) approach to secondary social studies teaching and learning. The following information and tools are provided in this report. There is an introduction to the basic…

Teachers in the Henry County Public School System (Tennessee) developed and wrote over 80 course syllabi for most subject areas taught in grades 7-12 for a Teacher Corps demonstration project. The intent of the project was to inform students and parents of specific requirements in each subject at each grade level. This outline is written for a…

Noting that the students participating on a typical yearbook staff must develop their expertise in such areas as writing, art and design, leadership, business, and group dynamics in a highly realistic job-oriented situation, this paper suggests that yearbook production should be an accredited course in the high school curriculum, with an…

This publication, developed by the Ministry of Education, Province of British Columbia, Canada, is a teaching guide for the Earth Science 11 course. The course is intended to provide secondary school students with the background and desire to investigate their earth, its materials and its processes. The guide consists of four sections. Section A…

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE UNITED STATES SECONDARY SCHOOLS OFFERING HUMANITIES PROGRAMS ARE LISTED, ALPHABETICALLY BY STATE. ANNOTATIONS PRESENT DESCRIPTIONS OF THE APPROACHES TO STUDY IN THE HUMANITIES COURSES (E.G., AMERICAN STUDIES, WORLD CULTURE, GREAT IDEAS). MANY ALSO INDICATE (1) GRADE LEVELS, (2) SCHOOL DEPARTMENTS ADMINISTERING THE…

This document describes and evaluates a high school chemistry course developed to promote formal reasoning in students by increasing opportunities for self-regulation and to increase student understanding of chemical concepts by making instruction relevant to their developmental level. General results indicate that students enrolled in the course…

The document provides an example of the integration of career awareness into a half-year elective English course at the senior high school level. The project was designed to increase: knowledge of careers in general and specifically in the Boothbay Harbor, Maine area; awareness of how personal characteristics relate to job requirements, skill, and…

This curriculum guide describes the nongraded, phase-elective English program of Newcomb Central, a small high school located in New York State. Following a brief rationale for the program, both the general advantages and the advantages to the student are listed. The seven phases of difficulty of the courses are then explained. The remaining bulk…

Developed for a high school quinmester unit on the Russian novel, this guide is designed to give students the opportunity to become familiar with the major works of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevski. Performance objectives for the course include studying the general facets of 19th century Russian culture and history, analyzing the novels of…