"Shake, Rattle, & Roll" is a new program developed by The Actuarial Foundation with Scholastic, provides dynamic real-world math content designed to build student skills while showing students the relevance of math to understanding their world and planning for their future. Math skills are increasingly important for students. According to the U.S.…

This guide was developed to fill a need identified by high school educators and Alberta Advanced Education and Technology staff. The Guide introduces students to the principles of career and education planning and various authorized Alberta resources by helping students work through the planning process. The student guide is a series of modules or…

The term "integrated curriculum" has many different, sometimes conflicting, meanings to educators. In this manual, integrated curriculum refers to the materials and pedagogical strategies used by "multidisciplinary" teams of teachers to organize their instruction so that students are encouraged to make meaningful connections…

The purpose of these modules is to provide an introduction to the world of probability and statistics to accelerated mathematics students at the high school level. The modules also introduce students to real world math concepts and problems that property and casualty actuaries come across in their work. They are designed to be used by teachers and…

Describes how Wordsworth's "The Last of the Flock" was taught in an English literature course as a poem, but also as a means of understanding unemployment and how it affects people emotionally. (SRT)

Suggestions are made for infusing career education into health education classes. (JD)

Five sequential steps form a model for developing, implementing, and evaluating a career education program for handicapped students: assessing students' needs; identifying specific career education goals; identifying barriers and facilitators; generating intermediate objectives; and measuring program effectiveness. (CL)

Presents a four-day unit that helps high school students discover the benefits that social studies education, and specifically global education, have for their careers. Students, working in groups, identify events outside the United States that influence their lives and things they have done which influence the lives of people living in other…

Lists 27 secondary school activities in which career awareness is incorporated into the history curriculum. Students investigate occupational changes over time, identify history-related occupations, research the development of farm equipment, and invite the local bank president, news director, school librarian, and city planner to speak. (KC)

Describes how to use biographies of successful women politicians to provide career role models for elementary school girls. The biographies of Margaret Chase Smith, Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and Juanita Kreps are recommended as resources for career education. (AM)

The article describes a unit on occupations which provides the third- to fifth-grade gifted student with the opportunity to experience firsthand the work of his/her mentor. (SBH)

This guide is designed to help teachers prepare lessons about the purpose, history, organization, and functions of the selective service system. The following topics are covered in the guide's seven sections: the selective service system today; history of conscription in the United States; history of the selective service system; organization and…

Suggests learning activities to help elementary and secondary students use the daily newspaper to explore the world of work. An annotated list of sources and materials is also included. (RM)

The article provides three games or activities designed to facilitate the introduction of career education into the special education curriculum. (PHR)

Described is a method used in the Stevens Point, Wisconsin schools to infuse art career education into the existing elementary art program. Terminal objectives for sixth grade and a K-l lesson on buildings are included. This article is part of a theme issue on art career education. (SJL)