The curriculum guide, which was prepared to serve as an aid to all teachers of business data processing, gives a complete outline for a high-school level course in both Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL) and Report Program Generator (RPG). Parts one and two of the guide together comprise an introduction to data processing, which deals with…

The module deals mainly with some of the service problems experienced by consumers, examines the causes of some problems, and suggests some solutions, attempting to present the standpoint of the producer as well as the buyer and user. The module may be presented as a semester or part semester course. Organized by expected student understandings,…

The field-tested instructor's guide provides basic standards of training for all students enrolled in the Washington State Mobile Checker Training Program. As a 90-hour accelerated course it includes home study, or it can be converted to 180 hours of instruction. Thirty units are presented as a sequence of learning experiences, a number of which…

The four teacher's guides, emphasizing career education and its infusion into existing curriculum, are for the following units of instruction and suggested grade levels: entering the world of work, 5-12; making money with a classroom store, 8-12; meteorologist/radio station, 9; and banking, 9-10. Each unit is organized under several strategies and…

The goal of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Department of Transportation has been to upgrade and professionalize the ambulance field, enhance its life-sustaining quality, and encourage its establishment where it does not now exist. The course discusses purpose, mission, and duties of the emergency medical technician; leadership;…

The 12 teacher's guides, emphasizing career education and its infusion into existing curriculum, are for the following units of instruction and suggested grade levels: the department store, K-2; the airport, K-3; measurement and its relationship to baking, K-3; people behind the scenes at school, K-3; books, 1-3; can I be a scientist?, 3-5;…

The extrication course is part of a planned program of courses designed to upgrade the training of ambulance attendants in life-saving and life-sustaining techniques. Contents include objectives and scope; a course outline; comments on instructors, students, class size, training facilities; and wrecked vehicle sources, safety precautions, and…

The carpentry curriculum guide was developed as a basic guide to be used by instructors in formulating their own courses of study. The material is designed for use in vocational carpentry classes at grade levels 10, 11, and 12. Planned as a two-year sequence, it incorporates 1080 class hours of instruction and emphasizes light or residential type…

The six teacher's guides, emphasizing career education and its infusion into existing curriculum, are for the following units of instruction and suggested grade levels: go metrics, 5-7; where does all our money go?, 6-7; let's go--travel, 6-8; life style and the Hudson River Valley, 7; economic awareness, 8; and the rise of American business, 8.…

This resource unit, developed by the University of Minnesota's Project Social Studies, introduces eighth graders to the executive process. The unit uses case studies of presidential decision making such as the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the Cuba Bay of Pigs and quarantine decisions, and the Little Rock decision. A case study of…

This resource unit, developed by the University of Minnesota's Project Social Studies, introduces eighth graders to political parties and elections. Ways in which political scientists study voting behavior, sampling techniques, problems arising from interpreting findings, and the use of correlational studies are presented. The unit includes an…

The four learning packages for exploratory career education are designed for use at the seventh and eighth grade levels. Each unit includes coordinated teacher and student editions. The units are: Culinary Cubs, focusing on occupations in the areas of food management, production, and services, with special reference to dietitians; Mini Nursery,…

With an acute awareness of learning problems among inner-city students, the teachers in New Haven, Connecticut, modified their courses to relate to the opportunities and challenges of modern education. They reorganized the traditional, year-long, survey history courses into quarter miniunits which emphasize the inquiry approach to analyzing…

Affording flexibility to the instructor, the fifth-grade career education unit in social studies and language arts contains a description of its design, an overview, and an instructional sequence of 14 lessons. Lesson titles are: paths to occupational preparation; paths some workers take; paths to possible careers; tickets to success; success and…

The resource unit was prepared to provide examples of business education activities that emphasize economic concepts concerning consumer credit and to supply information pertaining to the Oklahoma Uniform Consumer Credit Code. It is suggested for use in the following courses: general business, business law, business economics, bookkeeping,…