This Environmental Education Teacher's Guide, developed for use at the K-6 level, is designed to familiarize teachers with how an environmental education program can help in their teaching and in achieving the goals of the school. This program focuses on developing attitudes towards study environments and associated environmental problems. The…

This nutrition education guide for Head Start teachers is part of a series of Head Start booklets concerning the value of good nutrition for preschool children and their families. Topics discussed in this booklet are: (1) the rationale for preschool nutrition education, (2) suggestions for planning Head Start lunch periods, and (3) ways in which…

This resource monograph is one of a series designed as a teaching guide for field studies. Each guide centers around the exploration, observation, and interpretation of a field site in one of the four geological areas of Florida. Incorporated into the guides are many of the subject-matter schemes of the Earth Science Curriculum Program (ESCP) and…

Several instructional strategies have been developed and employed to affect student awareness of natural and social environmental settings. Three instructional strategy orientations have been structured for affecting student conceptual learning and values acquisition-clarification: affective, cognitive, and affective-cognitive. Outdoor education…

Although the directory to Denver's historic sites has been compiled particularly for the use of teachers and their classes, it will be useful to all individuals and groups of any age who are interested in exploring the history of the Denver area. Seventy historic sites are listed alphabetically. Information for each provides address, phone, price…

This resource monograph is one of a series designed as a teaching guide for field studies. Each guide centers around the exploration, observation, and interpretation of a field site in one of the four geological areas of Florida. Incorporated into the guides are many of the subject-matter schemes of the Earth Science Curriculum Program (ESCP) and…

This resource monograph is one of a series designed as a teaching guide for field studies. Each guide centers around the exploration, observation, and interpretation of a field site in one of the four geological areas of Florida. Incorporated into the guides are many of the subject-matter schemes of the Earth Science Curriculum Program (ESCP) and…

The brief guide, developed as part of an exemplary program for junior high school students, lists educational goals and performance objectives for field trips, especially those of approximately one and one-half hours in length made to industrial establishments. The guide also provides pre- and post-field trip activities for students and guidelines…

This activity package is designed as a resource for the classroom teacher. It contains numerous activities, experiments, and demonstrations in environmental education for the elementary grades. Numerous field trips are described. Each activity includes: objectives, suggested materials, suggested methods, and a description of the activity. Where…

This Environmental Education Teacher's Guide, developed for use in the junior high school, is designed to familiarize teachers with how an environmental education program can help in their teaching and in achieving the goals of the school. The suggested core activities in this guide are designed to be a motivating way of introducting junior high…

The guide provides activities for use with children in grades four through six before and after a field trip to Shakertown at Pleasant Hill. Established as a Shaker community in 1805, Pleasant Hill now has 27 buildings restored and open for public use. The study of Pleasant Hill can be used as an example of rural or village life in nineteenth…

Based on the philosophy that students retain most when they are actively involved in learning experiences, this handbook is designed as an idea source for teachers of consumer homemaking or consumer education classes. The suggestions and ideas are presented in six sections, one for each of six instructional approaches: (1) field trips, (2)…

Purpose of the Zip Pak is to give the migrant child, who enters and leaves the classroom periodically, a packet of lessons which he creates and learns. Behavioral objective is that the child will recognize approximately 10 to 15 words, selected from his spoken vocabulary, by the end of two weeks. The lessons aim to motivate the child, while at the…

The handbook's purpose is to unify elementary career education materials for administrators, teachers, counselors, and career education specialists in the Department of Defense Schools (Pacific Area). The first section of the document outlines and defines the program's concepts and objectives, occupational clusters, the roles of various school…

This teaching guide is designed to develop thinking skills of intermediate elementary school children by using the concept of a shopping center. Thinking skills defined in the guide are observing, recalling, noticing differences and similarities, ordering, grouping, concept labeling, classifying, concept testing, inferring causes and effects,…