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Download full textManitoba Dept. of Education and Training, Winnipeg. – 1991
This document is a curriculum guide to a world geography course for grade 12 students in Manitoba, Canada. Following an overview of the course, the guide presents information about the six units that comprise the course. The units are: (1) World geography overview; (2) World population: characteristics, distribution, and growth; (3) World food…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Guides, Foreign Countries, Geographic Concepts
Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1991
This resource file contains information for Utah high school teachers to help their students meet the state's instructional objectives in the elective economics/free enterprise course. Each activity includes an instructional objective along with a title, topic, time segment, procedures, materials, evaluation, and adaptation. Sample objectives…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Economics Education, Free Enterprise System, Grade 10
Gage, Susan – 1991
Using text, activities, cartoons, and prose, the publication encourages junior and senior secondary students to examine the history of colonialism in Africa and the importance of colonialism in Africa today. Chapter 1 provides an overview of 500 years of colonialism. Chapter 2 describes pre-colonial Africa from the year 1000 to 1442. The focus of…
Descriptors: African History, Apartheid, Change, Colonialism
Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, DC. – 1994
This document provides the framework to guide the development of assessment instruments for the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in geography. This framework is designed to assess the outcomes of students' education in geography in grades 4, 8, and 12 as part of the NAEP. The document draws from the five themes of geography,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education
LaBonte, Karen – 1990
This sourcebook was developed to present ideas on how to bring the discussion of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) into the 11th and 12th grade social studies classroom, while continuing to focus on social studies concepts and skills. The manual's four main sections examine HIV and AIDS from the…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Citizenship Education, Civics, Economics
Snook, Helen B. – 1986
This resource notebook contains information and unit planning ideas for teachers, class activities, and student materials that can be used for teaching a 12th grade course about Virginia state and local governments. Section A features: (1) information about how to use these materials and how to find time to teach about Virginia government; (2) a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Government (Administrative Body), Grade 12, High Schools
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Records Branch. – 1988
This booklet provides samples of student writing that exemplify the standards that governed the scoring of student essays on the June 1988 Social Studies 30 Diploma Examination. Copies of the two essay assignments are provided, and five student essays are included for both topics, covering the full range of student writing. Commentaries…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Content Area Writing, Foreign Countries, Grade 12
Dynneson, Thomas L.; And Others – 1989
As a means of investigating the current status of citizenship education in the schools, this exploratory study was designed to study graduating high school seniors' perceptions of their citizenship experiences. A questionnaire was distributed to four schools in Texas, Minnesota, California, and Arkansas and data were analyzed using Boos's…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Data Interpretation, Developmental Stages
Thompson, Deane C. – Media and Methods, 1974
Willowbrook High School (Villa Park, Ill.) senior social studies course offers nine-week unit in the effects of technological change on society. (JH)
Descriptors: Computers, Futures (of Society), Grade 12, Man Machine Systems
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Minister's Advisory Committee for the Canadian Awareness Project. – 1981
The activities of the Canadian Awareness Project involved the development and analysis of an assessment of general knowledge and understanding of Canadian history, geography and citizenship as demonstrated by a sample of elementary, junior and senior high school students in provincially-funded schools. Included in this report are the phases…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cultural Awareness, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD.
This guide outlines a nine to eighteen week course of study for secondary level students on the history of Russia and the Soviet Union. The course teaches the concepts of change and continuity, cause and effect, structural complexity, societal interdependence, freedom and obligation, human needs and cultural functioning, and national behavior…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Bibliographies, Class Activities, Communism
Providence Public Schools, RI. – 1969
GRADES OR AGES: Grades 8-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies; civilizations. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into 12 chapters, most of which are in list form. It is mimeographed and staple-bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: No specific activities are mentioned. The guide is intended as an overview of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
O'Neill, James B. – 1973
The report is an evaluation of the economic content and teaching strategies in United States and world history textbooks that are used in grades 11 and 12. The study, conducted by the Center for Economic Education, University of Delaware, was part of a kindergarten through grade twelve assessment of the treatment of economics in social studies…
Descriptors: Economics, Economics Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
Henderson, William E. – 1971
This Quinmester course on money and banking, part of the political and economic studies cluster for grades 10, 11, and 12, aims at examining the nature, role and scope of money in a capitalistic economy. Emphasis is placed upon understanding the operation of government policies affecting banking, with its subsequent influences on our national…
Descriptors: Banking, Course Objectives, Curriculum Guides, Economics
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Bureau of Social Studies. – 1971
Recommended procedures and essential facts for a planned student registration campaign in New York City Schools, as well as suggested teaching strategies and instructional aids supporting a broad-based senior year preparation for the 18-year-old franchise comprise this document. The suggested teaching strategies involve large and small group…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Citizenship, Citizenship Responsibility, Civics
