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Otero, George G. – 1975
This experimental unit on death employs a cross-cultural comparison of death and burial customs to increase student understanding of the values and reasons behind events surrounding the end of the life cycle. Nine activities are presented in which students collect, label, analyze, and generalize about the relationship of death customs to the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Beliefs, Class Activities, Comparative Analysis
Otero, George G. – 1975
This unit examines four topic areas related to police: rules and enforcement, police discretion, variety of police tasks, and police differences among societies as products of certain social pressures. High-school students learn about the police as an institution that responds to social and historical pressures. Students study police systems in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Curriculum
Smith, Gary R. – 1975
Showing a variety of learned behavior about aging, activities in this unit are designed to help high-school students become aware that their views (preconceptions) on aging are not universally held. Objectives of the unit include achievement of global perspective on aging and its problems, understanding of the effects of population growth and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes, Class Activities, Comparative Analysis
Otero, George G. – 1975
In this unit, high-school students identify and evaluate their own images of the Arabs and begin to develop more accurate perceptions of the Arabs through data analysis. Activities emphasize social studies skills, such as mapmaking and reading, use of time lines and the concept of chronology, and data collection and analysis. Students compare…
Descriptors: Arabs, Attitude Change, Class Activities, Comparative Analysis
Smith, Gary R. – 1975
This instructional unit offers high-school students experiences in learning about how human beings communicate and fail to communicate. It is based on the assumption that personal and cultural differences create differing "perceptual sets." Seventeen learning activities are grouped into four units: (1) Communication Processes and "Meaning-Making,"…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis
McCracken, Jarrell; Smith, Gary R., Ed. – 1976
This experimental unit on modernization will involve secondary students in researching and developing a 50-nation data bank from which they are asked to make cross-cultural comparisons and analyses. Students infer some of the consequences of economic development on social and political life in a modernizing society, apply the concept of…
Descriptors: African Culture, Asian Studies, Class Activities, Comparative Analysis
Clark, Leon E.; And Others – 1978
The unit contains a teacher's guide, student reading materials, and data sheets about a variety of worldwide demographic and economic variables. Designed for students in junior high through college, its goals are to encourage students to analyze the causes and consequences of world population and economic trends, and to detect interrelationships…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Economic Factors
Miller, Barbara; Johnson, Jacquelyn – 1976
This unit explores the roles of women today and the possible effects of social, political, and economic equality for women on students' personal lives, the nation, and the world. Thirteen activities are designed to help secondary students develop an understanding of the status of women in U.S. society as compared with other cultures. These…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Employed Women
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. – 1977
The guide is designed to help high school art teachers develop an introductory art survey course which focuses on the basic elements and theoretical principles of art products from prehistory through the present day. A major objective of the course is to help students analyze the relationships between art and society and between the artist and…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art, Art Activities, Art Appreciation
Woito, Robert, Ed. – 1977
Designed for students, educators, and citizens interested in human rights, the booklet presents resources for learning about the facts, perspectives, and existing procedures and institutions to promote human rights. Chapter one explores the relationship between human rights and war. Chapter two presents a self-survey to help readers clarify…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Advocacy, Civil Liberties, Comparative Analysis
Lamy, Steven L. – 1978
The document presents background information and activities for use by secondary school social studies teachers as they incorporate material on ethnic conflict into the curriculum. Ethnic conflicts are interpreted as hostilities which are either solely based upon or accentuated by ethnic differences. Examples are violence in Northern Ireland,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Conflict, Conflict Resolution