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Nakayama, Shuichi – International Journal of Social Education, 1996
Summarizes the recent changes in the highly centralized national geography curriculum in Japan. Prominent reforms include the implementation of environmental studies in the elementary schools and a broader emphasis, across the curriculum, on world geography. In teacher education, emphasis is now placed on teaching skills rather than subject…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy
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Inter Nationes, Bonn (Germany). – 1997
This packet is designed for middle school classrooms. The four lessons correspond to the typical curriculum pattern of world cultures, geography, and government. The materials focus on national studies and state studies from a comparative U.S./Germany perspective. The lessons include: (1) "Culture and Perspective Taking on the Federal…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Civics, Cultural Education, Culture
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Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. – 1968
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,…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Curriculum Guides, Deduction, Environmental Education
Richardson, Charles Howard – 1975
This learning package is a three-semester-hour, independent-study course in geography and cultures of the world designed for postsecondary, external degree students. Keyed to the commercially published textbook "Between Two Worlds: A New Introduction to Geography" (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973), the package consists of an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Course Objectives, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
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Sandmeier, Kay; Greeson, Linda – Journal of Geography, 1990
Outlines learning activities for applying geography's five fundamental themes to studying Antarctica and points out the learning potential, for studying the economic, historical, and political geography of the continent. Groups activities for grades K-5, 6-8, and 8-12. Stresses cooperative learning in general, and includes a role play activity for…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
Amundson, Kristen J. – 1996
This guide offers a closer look at the newly-independent nation of Kyrgyzstan. The teaching materials focus on the history and culture of the nation, emphasize the influence of physical geography on culture, and explore the diversity found in this small country. Each lesson includes the geography standards linked to the activity, objectives,…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lee, Mimi Miyoung – Ethnography and Education, 2006
Based on an ethnographic case study done in an all-white, rural middle school, this article examines the students' experience with and interpretation of an international education program implemented with a hope of providing more global/international contents to the curriculum. The study shows that these students interpreted other cultures…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Case Studies, Rural Schools, Middle Schools
Arapahoe County School District 6, Littleton, CO. – 1970
The unit experiences for the K-12 curriculum guide, including these for grade 4, are outlined in SO 001 139. These units initiate the study of geographic regions of the world. Emphasis in these area studies is placed on the regional topography, geographic factors, and people's economic, social, and cultural adjustment to their environment or…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Area Studies, Concept Teaching, Critical Thinking
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Crosby, Alfred W. – American Historical Review, 1995
Maintains that, although 18th-Century historians understand the significance of environmental influences, the concept of environmental history did not emerge until the mid-1900s. Discusses the influence of Earth Day, Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," and the landing of humans on the moon. (CFR)
Descriptors: Activism, Conservation Education, Educational Change, Environment
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Curriculum Development Branch. – 1981
The social studies curriculum for grade 4 in Manitoba, Canada, is presented. The focus of this guide is communities around the world. Some objectives are to explore: (1) various human and natural features of the earth's surface; (2) ways in which people communicate about location on the earth's surface; and (3) implications of different levels and…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Cooperation, Community Influence, Community Role
Morris, Donald M. – 1976
Three environmental education units relating environmental concerns to elementary school students' own experiences are described in this materials packet. Emphasis is on helping students become more sensitive to human and personal dimensions of environmental upset. Designed to teach children about themselves and their air, water, and land…
Descriptors: Climate, Cognitive Objectives, Conservation (Environment), Educational Games
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Montiel, Gloria Z. de – International Journal of Social Education, 1996
Considers the various educational philosophies governing geography instruction in Argentina and places them in historical perspective. Contrasts the positivist and historicist approaches and discusses the current curriculum. Includes summaries of proposed changes in the curriculum emphasizing social education. (MJP)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Objectives
Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. – 1984
An outline of the knowledge and skills to be taught at grade seven in order to meet the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) social studies objectives is provided. Material is divided into four parts. Following an introduction, a one page description overviews the curriculum topic for grade six, world cultures and geography, and…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Behavioral Objectives, Concept Formation, Curriculum Guides
National Science Teachers Association, Washington, DC. – 1978
This instructional unit contains four classroom lessons dealing with energy for use in grades six and seven. The overall objective is to provide students with a comparative overview of two basic energy concepts: energy is a basic need in all cultures; and energy use affects the way people live. In the lessons, which can easily be integrated into…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education
1969
More than 3,000 films (16 mm.) available on loan in the United States under the auspices of 66 foreign governments are catalogued. About 1,800 of them may be borrowed at no charge, and the rest at a nominal fee. Many of the listings are simply tourist films, but others deal with the country's history, literature, culture, people, and politics. The…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Asian History, Catalogs
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