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PDF pending restorationNew Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 2001
The Elementary School Proficiency Assessment (ESPA) is the state test taken by students in the fourth and fifth grade. It is designed to give a school information about how well the students are achieving in the areas required by New Jersey's Core Curriculum Content Standards. For 2001, a new subject Social Studies has been added to the ESPA. The…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Evaluation Methods, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Wood, Robin H. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
At a New Jersey school, students spend one year studying each of three time periods: ancient Egypt in fourth grade; Greece in fifth grade; and Rome and the Middle Ages in sixth grade. The history curriculum becomes the focal point for other areas (art, music, drama, language arts, science, geography, and math). Teachers use primary sources and…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Classical Literature, Experiential Learning, Integrated Curriculum
Download full textRomeo, Lynn; Young, Susan A. – 1997
A study investigated students' perceptions about their interactions while using a Literacy Play Center geared toward social studies with a "time machine" theme. Subjects, 19 fifth-grade students in a suburban elementary school in central New Jersey, were interviewed about their experience and video taped while interacting in the play…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Discovery Learning, Experiential Learning, Grade 5
Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity International, Washington, DC. – 1993
Designed for middle school through high school students, this unit contains eight lesson plans that focus on New Jersey state law. The state lessons correspond to lessons in the volume, "Antidote: Civic Responsibility. Drug Avoidance Lessons for Middle School & High School Students." Developed to be presented by educators, law…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Drug Education
Gromada, Thaddeus V. – 1989
This document is the report of a commission appointed by the Governor of New Jersey to examine the status of Eastern European studies in the state's public schools. The commission surveyed the state's secondary schools and found that the Eastern European region outside of Russia was given very little attention. As its main focus, the commission…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, European History
