This publication is the student handbook for a BSCS energy education module designed for high school, college, and adult students. It is designed to provide students with information about energy that will help them make decisions as citizens. Basically, this document is a text to supplement the activities and lesson plans in the teacher's guide.…

The Rumson-Fair Haven Senior Elective Program was developed and implemented by students, faculty, and administrators over the three-year period from 1971 to 1974. The program offers high school students who complete graduation requirements in the first three years of the four-year program a combination of the following options for the senior year:…

The Rumson-Fair Haven Senior Elective Program was developed and implemented by students, faculty, and administrators over the three-year period from 1971 to 1974. The program offers high school students who complete graduation requirements in the first three years of the four-year program a combination of the following options for the senior year:…

This language arts minicourse guide for Lampeter-Strasburg (Pennsylvania) High School contains a topical outline for a course on technical and business writing. The guide includes a list of five course objectives; an outline of the sequence of instruction in the course; a description of the content, concepts, and writing exercises covered by the…

This manual, the culmination of a demonstration project, is designed to aid school districts in adopting the microteaching minicourse as an inservice education program for improving specific behavioral skills of teachers. The introductory section describes the microteaching minicourse sequence of viewing an instructional and a model film, teaching…

A minicourse is any educational experience that involves a detailed and indepth study of a specific unit or subject, jointly planned by student and teacher, and for which less than a semester of time is used. Minicourses at Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, New Mexico, are a part of their total packet of educational innovations, including open…

This book provides an overview of work in the area of modular instruction and offers practical information for individualized instruction through the implementation of the modular design. Written for the classroom teacher, the book includes sample modules used at elementary, secondary, and college levels of instruction. Chapters include…

This course guide examines the theme of war in literary works. Works studied include the short stories of Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner; novels such as "The Red Badge of Courage" and "All Quiet on the Western Front"; and a variety of poems by writers from several countries. Students' performance…

Consumer Education is a mini-course designed for all seniors in high school. It was developed on the premise that a student needs to evolve his own value system, develop a sound decision-makingprocedure based upon his values, evaluate alternatives in the marketplace and get the best buys for his money, understand his rights and responsibilities as…

An evaluation was made of a programmed course "A Self Study Course for Adult 4-H Leaders" from Colorado State University, to determine if leaders would complete a self-study program in lieu of county training meetings. Seventeen leaders completed evaluation forms and the lessons. The study results are presented in 10 chapters: Why 4-H?;…

An anonymous suvey was administered to all students completing learning skills minicourses (n=141) during the fall 1976 semester at El Camino College (California). The survey was designed to provide information for the purposes of identifying and evaluating the recruitment strategies for and enrollment motivations of students completing the…

This booklet, one of a series developed by the Frederick County Board of Education, Frederick, Maryland, provides an instruction module for an individualized or flexible approach to secondary science teaching. Subjects and activities in this series of booklets are designed to supplement a basic curriculum or to form a total curriculum, and relate…

Provides a listing of readily available sources of materials for secondary earth science teachers desiring to develop their own instructional modules. (SL)

Problems and successes of teaching an interdisciplinary and innovative course on the 1960's are reviewed by the team that taught it at Samford University. The basic framework was chronological, with heavy reading assignments and group discussions used to cover the social and political issues of the decade. (LBH)

This bulletin discusses the status of agricultural education from 1916-1918. Contents include: (1) Agriculture in secondary schools; (2) The elementary schools; (3) Agricultural education at meetings; (4) Agricultural education in other countries; (5) Educational work of the Department of Agriculture; (6) The agricultural colleges; (7)…