Within a group of advanced learners, the variety of abilities, talents, interests, and learning styles can be formidable. For the first time, this book connects the unique learning differences among gifted students to the specific teaching methods used to tailor their educational experiences. Differentiated instruction for gifted and talented…

This volume is a collection of position papers, each of which develops an intellectual framework for teaching a particular subject-matter discipline within an environmental context. The subject matter areas included are political science, health education, language or communication arts, art, science, mathematics, and social studies. (DT)

This book is an attempt to document the impact of environmental concerns on higher education in recent years as expressed in university courses, curricula, programs, and centers that have modified conventional disciplines or led to new multidisciplinary arrangements, schools, and colleges. The forty-five case studies presented describe…

This program is designed to involve students in the economy of their community. It combines an interdisciplinary educational program with practical field and laboratory experience. This program provides opportunities in the area of aquaculture, controlled cultivation of marketable species and the total ecological corrections necessary to maintain…

This volume contains a series of papers which develop multidisciplinary environmental education activities in seven subject matter areas: political science, health education, language or communication arts, art, science, mathematics, and social studies. Different formats are used for organizing the materials in each of the different subject areas.…

This publication is the third work in the UNESCO series "The Teaching of Basic Sciences," and is based on the proceedings of the international conference on "The Education of Teachers for Integrated Science." The views of all the working groups of the conference, together with edited texts of the papers presented, form the text…

Presented is an environmental science interdisciplinary learning program designed for use on the junior high or senior high school level. It includes learning activities coordinated with behavioral objectives as well as an Ecology Game. The program is composed of seven modules, each of which deals with an element of the science of ecology. The…

This guide for teaching elementary school health education attempts to (1) depict the meaning of modern health education; (2) present principles of learning applied to health education; (3) propose a health curriculum based on valid criteria and suitable for use in the various grade levels of the elementary school; (4) explore the many…

This publication includes curriculum materials on animals for grades K-4. The major purposes of this publication are to foster individualized and interdisciplinary science and art activities within elementary classrooms and to provide pupils and teachers with suggestions to encourage the use of zoos, animal parks, and natural history museums.…

This publication includes curriculum materials on animals for grades 4-6. The major purposes of this publication are to foster individualized and interdisciplinary science and art activities within elementary classrooms and to provide pupils and teachers with suggestions to encourage the use of zoos, animal parks, and natural history museums.…

This curriculum guide is designed to train students who will assist in planning, designing, producing, and using media and multimedia materials. It offers a 2-year, competency-based, post-secondary program of studies in media technology, and uses an interdisciplinary approach drawn from the broad areas of art, business management, drafting,…

This comprehensive document is the result of statewide planning for the implementation of metric education in Virginia schools. An introduction discusses the rationale, needs, and continuing objectives for metric education. An organizational structure for metric education in Virginia is outlined. Guidelines for administrative planning are…

This publication presents a collection of 26 environmental education case studies recognized as being representative of curriculum materials and/or projects. Contained are action programs that can serve as models for the classroom teacher, principal, curriculum consultant, superintendent, state department official, or teacher educators in the…

These guidelines for the implementation of instruction in the metric system in grades K-8 were developed under the philosophy that students should develop the ability to use the metric system in all aspects of their lives. Therefore the approach outlined is an interdisciplinary one with minimal attention to conversion from the English to the…

This USMES unit challenges students to find ways to influence rules and the decision-making process in the school. The teacher resource book for the School Rules unit contains five sections. The first section describes the USMES approach to student-initiated investigations of real problems, including a discussion of the nature of the USMES…