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Spears, Jo Ann Lohl – Texas Child Care, 2003
This article presents a unit of fun and developmentally satisfying activities, using familiar folk stories focusing on threesomes. Each example involves story time, block center, art center, dramatic play, listening area, math and manipulatives center, folder game, group times, cooking, writing center, discovery center, and the music and movement…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Curriculum Design, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education
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Beven, Roy Q.; Raudebaugh, Robert A. – Journal of Technology Studies, 2004
Scientific concepts and processes are best developed in the context of technological problem solving. However, even some of the best secondary science curricula are weak in technology education and visa versa. A goal of technology and science education is to integrate student learning of science and technology. The relationship between science and…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Technology Education, Unified Studies Curriculum, Science Education
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Stremmel, Andrew J.; Travis, Shirley S.; Kelly-Harrison, Patti – Young Children, 1997
Argues successful intergenerational curriculum should meet the following criteria: (1) developmentally appropriate; (2) socially appropriate for impaired adults; (3) functionally appropriate; and (4) coexploration and mutual benefit. Suggests activities including free conversation, singing, music, telling or reading stories, and cooking. Advocates…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Age Differences, Children, Curriculum Design
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Van Cleaf, David W.; Sesow, F. William – Social Studies, 1993
Describes an instructional activity in which fifth graders identified geographic and economic factors that caused a town to become a ghost town. Discusses instructional procedures and materials used in the activity. Includes extension activities, maps, and suggestions for adapting the activity to other geographic regions. (CFR)
Descriptors: Activity Units, Class Activities, Curriculum Design, Discovery Learning
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Goetz, William W. – Social Education, 1993
Describes an instructional unit using graphic organizers to teach about federalism in a U.S. government course. Includes models of charts and lists of appropriate student responses. (CFR)
Descriptors: Activity Units, Citizenship Education, Course Content, Curriculum Design
Miller, Karen – Child Care Information Exchange, 1996
Contains two short, experientially oriented articles for caregivers of infants and toddlers. The first promotes and describes gardening options for infants including choice of plants and activities. The second presents coping strategies for toddlers when a change of teacher or caregiver occurs, including development of an effective transition…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Child Caregivers, Class Activities, Coping
Miller, Karen – Child Care Information Exchange, 1997
Main section argues that developing aptitudes for creativity in infants and toddlers is an important goal. Suggests the foundations of creativity begin with feeling valued, learning to combine things, exploring space and direction (gross motor development), fine motor development, making things happen, making a mess, and exposure to variety.…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Class Activities, Creative Activities, Creative Development