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Forest Service (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1993
This resource notebook contains over 100 activities in which students investigate different aspects of the environment. The activities are presented in 21 sections covering the following environmental topics and issues: (1) soil; (2) water; (3) forests; (4) plant relationships; (5) wildlife; (6)measurement; (7) urban communities; (8) deserts; (9)…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Discovery Learning, Environmental Education, Forestry
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Earthworks Group, Berkeley, CA. – 1990
This book explains how specific objects in a child's environment are connected to the rest of the world; how using them affects the planet; and how the individual can develop positive habits through projects that are environmentally sound. The book is written for children. The material includes experiments, facts, and activities divided into eight…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Citizen Participation, Community Action, Conservation (Environment)
Yoder, Anita; Landahl, John – 1974
These materials, developed for upper elementary and junior high school students, focus on a selected core of population learning objectives. Included are 24 self-contained student activities designed to be integrated into the existing curriculum. The activities relate to population concepts that can be investigated through mathematics, science,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Instructional Materials, Investigations
Higgins, Mildred M. – 1969
The purpose of this pilot study was to provide data from which tentative conclusions could be made about adults and their ability to handle literary abstractions. A sample of 93 inmates (all male, 26 Negro, 67 white) at Sumter Correctional Institution was randomly chosen and asked to verbalize their reactions to four comic strips and to write…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Blacks, Cartoons
Driscoll, William Joseph – 1970
This study focused on developing a rationale for special degree programs to improve access to higher education, and on determining a role for such programs. In an effort to learn if restrictive limitations exist in degree programs, information was obtained from the bulletin of the institution in each state which enrolled the largest number of part…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Bibliographies, Colleges
Monson, Marvin Ralph – 1969
This study investigated effects of a Manpower Development Training Act (MDTA) program on the self-concept of 178 male adults, high school graduates and dropouts, enrolled in the Agri-Business School. The dropouts were divided into those who successfully passed General Educational Development (GED) tests and received a high school diploma (GED…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Attitude Change, Bibliographies
Saraswathi, L. S. – 1969
This study focused on the relative effectiveness of three processes for identifying educational needs in adult program planning in home economics education. It also described characteristics of 40 Extension home economists and 37 vocational home economics teachers who taught both secondary school and adult classes; and sought relationships between…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Attitudes, Bibliographies
Weick, Ray Kay – 1969
A study was made of relationships of personal value orientations to personal characteristics of Arizona Cooperative Extension Service (CES) professional staff members, their perceptions of certain CES organizational elements (legal, process, functional, structural, personnel), and the distribution of high value orientations. A preliminary…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Bibliographies, Correlation
Williams, Janice Hurst; Dotson, Robert S. – 1970
This study in Knox County, Tennessee, was done to determine how those attending Extension clothing construction workshops differed from others; which recommended clothing instruction practices were being used; and factors influencing respondents to adopt or reject practices. Forty-five participants and a random sample of 45 nonparticipants were…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Age Differences, Bibliographies, Clothing Instruction
DeCrow, Roger, Ed.; Grabowski, Stanley M., Ed. – 1969
An annotated bibliography includes 490 items of research or investigation in adult education, mostly dated 1968 or 1969. They cover adult learning characteristics, program planning and administration, learning environments, instructional methods, curriculum materials and instructional devices, personnel and staffing, education of particular…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Annotated Bibliographies, Comparative Education
Mullally, Robert R. – 1967
A study was made of the total undergraduate dropout rate at the University of Wyoming for the 1963-64 school year, personal and background characteristics of academically able dropouts, reasons for discontinuance, plans for continuing formal education, the number of dropouts transferring to other institutions of higher educations and their reasons…
Descriptors: College Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Rate
Massey, James Orr – 1967
An assessment was made of the usefulness of more realistic simulation models in the academic study of business, and of resources needed to develop and use such models. A review of the literature showed significant differences in structure and the role of the "player" (student) as regards game theory, which deals with analysis and selection of…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Reinbold, John Clifford – 1965
An assessment was made of clergymen's attitude changes toward American agriculture, business, and labor as a result of participation in educational programs sponsored by the Clergy Economic Education Foundation. Differences in pretest attitudes toward these institutions were also evaluated. Subjects (87 participants from Florida, Kentucky, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures
Finlayson, Elizabeth Mason – 1969
Using questionnaire responses from the wives of Army officers on duty in the United States, this study explored participation in the areas of education, volunteer services, and employment, and the premise that there are certain characteristics of the military environment which might influence and modify that participation. The study focused on…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Careers, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Background
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1969
Part 1, Hearings before the Subcommittee on Indian Education (Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, U.S. Senate) on policy, organization, administration, and new legislation concerning American Indians, focuses especially on the problems of Alaskan Indians and Eskimos. The February, March, and April (1969) hearings were held in both Washington,…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Education
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