A 7th-grade teacher describes a unit on the elderly involving films, books, a visit to a local nursing home, and other activities. Resources for teaching about old age are listed. Suggestions for preparing for and following up on a nursing home visit and ideas for related activities are presented. (MT)

These materials are designed to provide a compact listing of sources of information as well as a collection of tested formats for collecting resource information for a town or city. It provides supplementary materials for the Land Use Decision Making Kit. Among materials included are listings of federal agencies involved in water and land use…

The guide is one of a series developed in a pilot project to integrate career education concepts with subject matter in secondary grades. The units are designed to reveal career orientation aspects of traditional topics within five major subject areas: English, social studies, mathematics, science, and health and physical education. The lesson…

Contained in the curriculum planning guide developed by the Chapel Hill Gifted-Handicapped Project are a model, a training sequence, and 17 instructional units for use with preschool gifted children. The model is explained to be based on the hierarchy of cognitive tasks developed by B. Bloom. A worksheet for teachers suggests activities to help…

The purpose of the handbook is to provide a resource to teachers for integrating career education into secondary level subject areas in order to reveal to students the broad range of career possibilities and the relevance of subject matter to the world of work. The first 19 pages of the document discuss the broad objectives of the program, the…

This teaching guide to health education includes instruction units for grades K-12. Section 1 discusses the need for health education and includes a scope and sequence chart for each of the instruction units. Section 2 consists of instruction units in the areas of physical development, social and emotional development, chemicals and addiction, and…

Indiana's goal for education is that every young person leaving or completing his school program should be ready for higher education or have a salable skill for entering useful and rewarding employment. This concept has been embodied within the Career Education Curriculum Guide and the State Career Education Model. The guide has derived, from the…

A brief history of the Nazi rise to power and genocide of Jews is contained in this pamphlet. The pamphlet was designed to supplement secondary social studies textbooks when it was found that most texts omit or skim over the treatment of the Jews by the Nazis. The document begins with a brief overview of historical content which the developers…

The first portion of this handbook considers the positive aspects of television (the news, entertainment, and educational programming); presents negative criticism regarding programming quality, the use of violence, and the influence of commercials; and discusses the available options and alternatives for improving and using television to its…

These classroom materials are part of the Project Benchmark series designed to teach secondary students about our legal concepts and systems. This unit focuses on kinds of evidence and methods of proof. The materials trace the historical development of the concept of evidence in English common law and explains the various kinds of evidence. The…

These classroom materials are part of the Project Benchmark series designed to teach secondary students about our legal concepts and systems. This unit focuses on the procedures and cases of the small claims court. The materials outline the kinds of cases, procedures of the plaintiff and defendent, trial procedures, rights of appeal, writ of…

These materials are part of the Project Benchmark series designed to teach secondary students about our legal concepts and systems. This unit focuses on the structure and procedures of the civil court systems. The materials outline common law heritage, kinds of cases, jurisdiction, civil pretrial procedure, trial procedure, and a sample automobile…

Volume II contains 20 discussion units for the final five months of the Calendar for the American Issues Forum Bicentennial program (see SO 008 613 for Vol. I). Discussion topics in this book include Working in America; the Business of America; America in the World; Growing up in America; and Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Although a…

The classroom activities presented in the document were designed by primary teachers in the Anchorage Borough School District for field-testing and evaluation in the 12 elementary schools in the Exemplorary Career Education Project. The activities, for grades K-3, are arranged under the following areas: self-knowledge and interpersonal relations,…

The American Issues Forum (AIF) is a national Bicentennial program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and cosponsored by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. AIF seeks to engage Americans in serious consideration of the nation's institutions, values, and traditions through a calendar which sets forth and…