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Clayfield, Helen; Hyatt, Robyn – 1994
This instructional resource provides teachers with ideas for teaching technology and incorporating it into other areas of the curriculum. The book includes 24 work units that can be adapted for use by any elementary grade. These units allow students to translate their ideas into practice by designing, making, and testing. The information and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Design, Design Crafts, Design Requirements
Center for Renewable Resources, Washington, DC. – 1979
The arrangement of this packet is essentially evolutionary, with a conscious effort to alternate reading assignments, activities and experiments. It begins with solar energy facts and terminology as background to introduce the reader to basic concepts. It progresses into a discussion of passive solar systems. This is followed by several projects…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Annotated Bibliographies, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Tolman, Richard R.; And Others – 1983
This module is part of an interdisciplinary program designed to educate the general citizenry regarding the issues of science/technology/society that have important consequences for both present and future social policies. Specifically, the program provides an opportunity for students to assess the effects of selected technological innovations in…
Descriptors: College Science, Computers, Confidential Records, High Schools
Melcher, Joan; And Others – 1980
Appropriate technology is an approach to meeting human needs which stresses local solutions using small-scale decentralized technologies that have minimal environmental impact. Presented in this manual are 10 lessons for upper elementary students that consider such topics as recycling, solar energy, transportation, and nutrition. Each lesson…
Descriptors: Alternative Energy Sources, Energy, Environmental Education, Grade 5
McKaughan, Stephen V.; And Others – 1975
The text seeks to help students reach, through about 90 hours of class instruction, to acquire a level of competency necessary to repair a piece of laboratory equipment or construct a simple piece of equipment. Tools are introduced as needed in each of three sections of the text: (1) woodwork and metalworking; (2) electronic circuits; and (3)…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Electronics, Glass, Higher Education
Sherman, Helen E. – 1990
Designed for secondary students, this interdisciplinary curriculum and resource packet provides opportunities to study maps and produce a map project. Objectives of the total curriculum and individual units describe the educational outcomes. Unit 1 activities and worksheets develop a strong foundation in map skills and the history of maps. Based…
Descriptors: Geography, Global Approach, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach
Galey, Minaruth – 1988
This resource guide accompanies "You, Me, and Technology," a 12-program series on science, technology, and society for junior high, high school and vocational students. Designed to be viewed separately or together and in any sequence, each program is matched by a lesson in this guide which contains an overview of the topics, content, objectives,…
Descriptors: Educational Television, Instructional Materials, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach
McConnell, Mary C.; And Others – 1984
This module is part of an interdisciplinary program designed to educate the general citizenry regarding the issues of science/technology/society (STS) that have important consequences for both present and future social policies. Specifically, the program provides an opportunity for students to assess the effects of selected technological…
Descriptors: Advertising, College Science, High Schools, Higher Education

Berkheimer, Glenn D.; Caldwell, John – 1979
This unit is intended to introduce the ideas of interaction and systems and their relationship to energy. The concept of energy is developed to include energy sources, energy receivers, energy transfer, energy chains, and efficiency. The unit is intended for use in two class periods and relates to concepts of science and social science. Numerous…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Elementary Education
McInerney, Joseph D.; And Others – 1984
This module is part of an interdisciplinary program designed to educate the general citizenry regarding the issues of science/technology/society that have important consequences for both present and future social policies. Specifically, the program provides an opportunity for students to assess the effects of selected technological innovations in…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, College Science, DNA, Embryology
McConnell, Mary C.; And Others – 1984
This module is part of an interdisciplinary program designed to educate the general citizenry regarding the issues of science/technology/society that have important consequences for both present and future social policies. Specifically, the program provides an opportunity for students to assess the effects of selected technological innovations in…
Descriptors: Adoption, College Science, Contraception, Futures (of Society)
Indiana State Dept. of Public Instruction, Indianapolis. Div. of Curriculum. – 1980
This guide is intended to integrate energy education into the curriculum of the middle school grades. It contains a rationale; a detailed introduction including a teacher's guide, glossary, and bibliography; a teacher's guide to a cartoon book; and separate teacher's entries and student entries for various eras of American history. The subjects…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education, Energy
McConnell, Mary C.; And Others – 1984
This module is part of an interdisciplinary program designed to educate the general citizenry regarding the issues of science/technology/society (STS) that have important consequences for both present and future social policies. Specifically, the program provides an opportunity for students to assess the effects of selected technological…
Descriptors: College Science, Decision Making, High Schools, Higher Education
Payson, Patricia – 1982
Originally designed for gifted students, these reproducible units on science fiction emphasize the use of higher order thinking skills and are appropriate for use in any classroom. Interdisciplinary in content, the units provide a broad view of science fiction. Included are two complete units, one created for the upper elementary gifted student…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Gifted, Instructional Materials
Iozzi, Louis A.; And Others – 1980
The purpose of this module is to introduce students (grades 10-11) to critical bioethical issues by considering moral dilemmas and knowledge of biomedical advances. The module is organized into 12 topic areas, each containing a dilemma story, introductory reading material, sample student responses, and questions. Dilemmas are essentially brief…
Descriptors: Biology, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Environmental Education
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