This is a teacher's guide and end of year summary for an eleventh grade course on area studies. The course is part of an articulated curriculum for grades K-12. The guide contains goals for the course which are related to values, skills, and concepts and generalizations. The focus of the course is on problems of four selected areas: Western…

This subunit on Western Europe is one of four resource units for an eleventh grade area studies course. One section of the subunit contains an introduction and the other the geography of Western Europe. The introduction contains objectives, an outline of content, teaching procedures, and instructional materials. The geography section focuses upon…

An integrated secondary curriculum is outlined in this particular guide for Canadian schools. The grade 11 World Geography course is intended to help students place geographic concepts developed in the first ten years of school into a systematic framework. Here conservation of all resources is an important topic: water resources and pollution,…

GRADES OR AGES: K-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into three sections, one each for elementary grades, middle grades, and high school. Each section is further subdivided by grade level. Sections are laid out in four columns across two pages. Column headings are concepts, teaching…

This course of instruction, one of a series of curriculum guides revised to fit the quinmester administrative organization of schools, attempts to prepare tenth through twelfth grade students to deal with complex war-peace issues. The model framework allows the teacher to use the total guide or to select certain ideas. The guide is divided into…

This Grade 11 teaching guide contains two curriculums which focus on 10 team physics projects and five thematic units in English. The 10 group physics projects are derived from the application of three laboratory units on the properties of matter, mechanics, and electricity. The outlined English curriculum ranges from such specifically pragmatic…

The American Studies quinmester course for grades ten through twelve on the United States and Asia emphasizes how United States foreign policy evolved in Asia from the Spanish American War in 1898 which was a turning point in policy to the present and the need to understand the involvement of foreign policy and its implication for mutual…

This elective course in world studies for grades 10 through 12 written as part of a total effort to revise curriculum to fit the five quinmester nine-week time periods for administrative organization of schools, provides an inductive analysis of the concept of totalitarianism. The student, given source material, primary information, and textual…

The elective (10-12) course outlined in this guide is designed to fit the quinmester organization of schools. The guide is divided into: 1) a broad goals section; 2) a content outline; 3) objectives and learning activities; and, 4) multimedia resources for teacher and student. The course is described as a study of crime in America, including the…

Testing the null hypothesis that there would be no differences in self reports on a sentence completion questionnaire (10 items) re: understanding of self and others between 39 students who had participated in Outward Bound (OB) and a matched group of 39 non-participants, 78 Woodward High School (Toledo, Ohio) male and female, junior and senior…

Beginning in 2003, there will be no standardized or norm-referenced test in history-social science for California students. That test is being replaced by assessments at grades 8, 10, and 11 based on California History-Social Science (H-SS) Content Standards. The H-SS standards tests at grades 10 and 11 count for 20% of the Academic Performance…

"Connecting With Others" for grades 9 through 12 is a proactive program helps high school students learn skills in self-advocacy, communication, interpersonal behaviors, and problem solving. It includes 40 learning activities that take into consideration cultural, ethnic, and gender diversity. The activities are divided into the…

The article describes the objectives, curriculum, training area, equipment used and skills taught in the power linemen's instructional course in Muskingum Area Joint Vocational School (Zanesville, Ohio). The course has great appeal for those wishing to work outdoors and has a perfect job placement record. (SB)

Examines attitudes and needs of 311 Vietnamese American tenth and eleventh graders (75 Chinese Vietnamese and 230 Vietnamese) to provide information about better meeting their needs. Students generally perceive their school experiences as positive, although discrimination is felt. Implications of findings for education of second-language students…

Surveyed 11th graders to examine the relations among mathematics self-efficacy (SE), gender, ethnic identity, and career interests (CI) in mathematics and science. Researchers also examined socioeconomic status (SES) and academic achievement. Science CI was predicted solely by science-mathematics SE. SE was predicted by academic performance and…