LEVEL I-A UNIT AREAS COVER THE MEANING OF "NUMBER," ADDITION, MULTIPLICATION, SUBTRACTION, AND DIVISION. LEVEL I-B COVERS INTRODUCTION TO COMMON FRACTIONS, COMBINING FRACTION, FRACTIONAL PARTS, SEPARATING FRACTIONS, AND APPLICATIONS. EACH UNIT UNDER I-B HAS SUBDIVISIONS, WITH A PARAGRAPH OF TEACHING HINTS AND EXAMPLES. STRESS IS UPON…

Nuffield Combined Science, a program prepared for the first two years of British secondary schools, is described in SE 015 449 and SE 015 451. Teachers' Guide III contains a series of alphabetically arranged "hints" on laboratory and pedagogic techniques, details of apparatus and materials necessary for each exercise suggested in each of…

This syllabus for grade 7 was designed to improve the problem-solving abilities of students while continuing a natural development of mathematical skills and concepts. Seven major strands are provided under the following unit titles: (1) "An Introduction to Problem Solving"; (2) "Number Concepts"; (3) "Ratio, Proportion,…

The purpose of the teacher's guide is to acquaint junior high school students with occupations in the life sciences. By identifying life science and exploring the areas of biology (ecology and zoology) and medicine, students may become aware of the functions of the people involved in these areas and the value of their work. The material in the…

Activity sheets for seventh and eighth grade student use in economics are contained in this document. Activities are developed in the following areas: checking accounts, bank account applications, check writing, keeping a check register, using checks, budgets, insurance, responsibility and planning, consumer shopping, supermarkets, taxes, help…

Helping students to recognize and understand their own attitudes and the attitudes and feelings of others, with special emphasis on how those feelings are communicated and dealt with is the purpose of the teacher's guide. Grade 7 students, in decoding each other's messages and discussing attitudes and feelings, discover the complexities of…

This book is the teacher's manual to a text designed to meet the particular needs of those children who have "accumulated discouragements" in learning mathematics. It is a manual of suggested teaching strategies and additional materials aimed at compensating for past student failures to understand mathematical concepts. This book, S, is…

Responsible citizenship is the ultimate goal of social studies. Basic to this goal is the development of critical thinking. Social studies content is organized around knowledge, skill, and attitude objectives that should be pursued simultaneously. The objectives are discussed, a program rationale is presented, and the program content is summarized…

This syllabus outlines art instruction in grades seven and eight and focuses on the visual arts concepts of space and structure, movement, and color and light. The publication is organized under the following sections: (l) Goals and Objectives; (2) Focus: Grades 7 and 8; (3) Scope and Sequence; (4) Developing a Curriculum from This Syllabus; (5)…

Seventh graders in Manitoba will gain a better understanding of the highly interdependent and interconnected world in which they live when they complete these supplementary units of study. Units and subtopics are: (1) Planet Earth--how it resembles a spaceship, its relationship to the universe and to the solar system, and how its motions and…

The instructional unit, field-tested in Arizona, is intended to become an integral part of a total K-12 career education curriculum. Six lessons are designed to assist learners in understanding how present experiences relate to past and future ones by comparing the cultures of Europeans in New England, and of Spanish soldiers and Indians in the…

The guide is one of a series developed in a pilot project to integrate career education concepts with traditional subject matter and topics in elementary grades K-7 and in special education. Developed by teachers in the Radford, Virginia, schools, the units make use of resource persons from outside the school, occupational information,…

The guide is arranged in vertical columns relating seventh grade reading and composition concepts to curriculum performance objectives, career concepts, and career performance objectives, suggested teaching methods, and resource materials. Broad career concepts--such as "there are problems to face and overcome in any field of work" and…

This unit is designed to give students insight into the British contribution to civilization with study emphasis on those nations that have had political, economic and cultural ties to Great Britain. Geographic and historic factors are outlined as background for study of the development of cultures of the British Isles, India, Kenya, Australia,…