Designed to give the elementary teacher some ideas for using the school site and the community as an environmental study area, this guide offers activities and suggestions to explore all aspects of the environment. Gaining an understanding of the environment and man's relationship to the environment are emphasized. The ultimate goal is to develop…

The coordinativeness of associational structures of two local communities are compared, with several operational measures of associational coordinativeness defined and a quantitative scale for measuring associational interlock in community activities is suggested. The two communities compared were in the Southern United States. Twenty-one actions…

As a part of the Final Report of the National Study of American Indian Education, this paper is a report on the community of Cut Bank, Montana. Data were collected in the fall of 1968, when a 4-member team from the University of Colorado made a 6-week study at the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. General factors studied were location, physical…

As part of the Final Report of the National Study of American Indian Education, Part I of this document depicts the demographic, socioeconomic, educational, and social aspects of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation and community of Bylas. Part II places specific emphasis on recent history, economy, problems and new programs, and the…

This newsletter is intended to be a bi-annual publication which will inform interested persons about the progress of this Project. It is concerned with curriculum studies on the theme of Canadian urbanization and its effects on our lives and environment. The emphasis is on behavioral change; the materials and the activities produced have as their…

This report gives the background of the Neighborhood Study Project, conducted in Louisville, Kentucky, in the spring of 1968. The city at that time had lost the first round competition for the Model Cities Program, and although the morale of the target neighborhood residents had been damaged, some community leaders still were willing to support a…

This sequence of learning modules in community involvement is part of a series prepared for the Teacher Corps program at Adams State College. The modules are designed to provide the intern with: (a) entry skills into the community, (b) skills in researching a community to better understand the life style of its inhabitants, (c) skills in…

Local history as source material for environmental education is uniquely portrayed in this resource kit. Utilizing a Winona County Historical Society publication, "The Beaver Story" and accompanied by a teacher's guide, "The Buried Town of Beaver," and other teaching aids, a case study of the area can be developed. Based on the reminiscences of…

THE POPULATION GROWTH (1950-60) OF PIMA COUNTY HAS BEEN GREAT, AND TUCSON HAS LED THE NATION WITH A 36.8 PERCENT INCREASE. SERVICE INDUSTRIES, THE GOVERNMENT, AND MINING PROVIDE THE MAJORITY OF JOBS. THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA AND 16 PRIVATE VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS ARE LOCATED IN TUCSON. RESULTS OF A SURVEY OF BUSINESSES IN THE AREA INDICATE THAT 65…

It is the purpose of this paper to suggest a role community assessment can play in the development of effective communication links between the public schools and the communities they serve, and to outline a process by which the public schools can develop their own community assessment activities. Community assessment, in the broader sense, can be…

The article describes how a senior high school teacher used an annotated bibliography to stimulate a local history resource project. For journal availability see SO 504 433. (Author/RM)

The assessments of community conditions by public officials and issue proponents have been traditionally viewed as widely divergent. This study focuses on the assessments of mayors and environmental activists on several dimensions of the community environmental quality issue. The findings appear to contradict the traditional assumptions.…

Notes the trend toward working with town planning authorities as a part of environmental education classes in the United Kingdom. Provides a teacher workshop designed to prepare secondary geography teachers for making such contacts by having them analyze and modify letters from four hypothetical scenarios. (JDH)

Reports on research that investigated the magnitude of knowledge gaps under varying levels of neighborhood newspaper publicity and organized group activities in an urban neighborhood. Concludes that high levels of group activity relate to both higher knowledge levels and greater knowledge gaps. (FL)

Teachers should draw from the resources of their economic, educational, governmental, and religious communities in teaching composition. (DD)