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Myers, Richard S.; Myers, Harriet B. – 1980
This instructional package suggests objectives, activities, and evaluation methods for use in an elementary school minicourse on energy. Objectives are to help students become aware of the present energy situation and to make more intelligent energy-related decisions in the future. Activities involve language arts, science, math, social studies,…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Energy
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Research. – 1980
The 1979-80 South Carolina Statewide Testing Program assessed the achievement of students in public school grades 3, 6, and 11. Results were used to facilitate the decision-making process of educators at the state, district, and school levels. The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) were used to measure achievement in the basic skill areas…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Comparative Testing, Educational Assessment
Old Bridge Township Board of Education, NJ. – 1980
During the 1979-80 school year, the Old Bridge Township School District promoted and implemented a career education program. Its chief aim was to expand career education from the middle school into the elementary and special education divisions. The project was used as a vehicle to enhance career education, expand and involve elementary teachers,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Modification, Career Awareness
Jefferson County Public Schools, Lakewood, CO. – 1963
As developed for a 6th grade outdoor education program, this curriculum guide is organized around a common core designed to teach conservation and appreciation of natural resources. Program initiation, methods and procedures, information on natural resources, suggested time schedules, learning activities, nature hikes, and field trips are…
Descriptors: Art, Astronomy, Conservation Education, Core Curriculum
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Research. – 1977
This summary report is intended to provide answers to questions that local school personnel may have about the procedures used in the 1976-77 South Carolina Statewide Testing Program and the resulting data. The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills, Form S (CTBS/S)--which measure reading, language, mathematics, science, social studies, and reference…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis
Skanes, Graham R. – 1970
As a prelude to testing deductions from the Ferguson and other ability theories that environment influences patterns of ability, school children in 5 large and 11 small isolated communities on the South Coast of Newfoundland were tested to compare ability patterns of children in small places with those in large communities. Data used for…
Descriptors: Ability, Age Differences, Community Size, Comparative Analysis
Wells, Stuart; And Others – 1974
The effects of varying amounts of computer assisted instruction (CAI) in mathematics, on the academic performance of 446 fifth and sixth graders scoring below norm on the California Test of Basic Skills (CTBS) were investigated. Independent variables were: (1) beginning-of-year CTBS mathematics pretest score; (2) teacher's verbal ability; (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Black Students, Compensatory Education
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. Home Economics Education Service.
The guide contains sequential units of consumer and homemaking education instruction for grades 6-12. The units for each grade level build upon and expand concepts developed during the preceding level. Introductory material describes program goals, home economics offerings in Virginia secondary schools, and the development and use of the guide. A…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Cultural Influences
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Education Research and Development Center. – 1974
The guide is one of a series for a statewide career education development project in Hawaii, based on a conceptual framework encompassing grades K-14. An introductory section in each guide includes directions for users; rationale for the project; a conceptual model (areas of individual growth, sequences of experience, and components of the…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Citizenship Responsibility
Pontiac City School District, MI. – 1975
In two succeeding years, 1974 and 1975, the same attitude questionnaire is given to students in succeeding grades to determine attitude change as they move from third to fourth grade or from sixth to seventh grade. Rather than reporting on each of thirty-five attitude items separately, a statistical technique is applied to select the most…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Class Organization, Cluster Analysis
Gabbard, Anne V.; Coleman, A. Lee – 1976
Changes in the occupational and educational aspirations and expectations of fifth and sixth grade children over a 6-year period were studied. In 1969, a questionnaire was administered to 355 students from 4 rural mountain schools and 3 urban schools in low-income areas in 3 Kentucky counties. In 1975, 199 students from the same rural mountain…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Aspiration, Black Students, Comparative Analysis
Geneva Area City Schools, OH.
Four curriculum units for the sixth grade level focus on: (1) food production and nutrition, (2) food services, (3) physical and mental health, and (4) environmental conservation. Each unit's behavioral unit objectives emphasize career possibilities in the industries related to the unit's topic. A chart format is used to list suggested content…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Career Opportunities
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Elementary Curriculum Development. – 1969
The overall social studies recommended program is described in SO 000 675. Here, the grade 4 program deals with the various racial and ethnic groups and the famous people who have contributed to the greatness of our country. The treatment is developed in a chronological historical sequence from the explorers and discoverers to the industrialists,…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Citizenship, Community Study, Concept Teaching
Sunnyside School District, Tucson, AZ.
GRADES OR AGES: 1-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Health education, tobacco, alcohol, and narcotics. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The introductory material discusses pre-planning and the general characteristics of physical development in early school, upper elementary school, and preadolescence. The material for grades 1-3 covers the body, human…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Curriculum Guides, Drug Abuse, Elementary Education
Werdelin, Ingvar – 1968
The value of using inductive and deductive methods in instructing a mathematical principle and foreign language alphabet are tested with sample groups of sixth and eighth grade students in two separate educational experiments. In both cases, the instructional methods used were--(1) instruction in principle before application to examples, (2)…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Convergent Thinking
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