This booklet is intended to instruct local high school educators on how to write a career education support unit curriculum which provides students with activities that will enable them to acquire the basic understanding and skills essential to function effectively within their economic system. Written in a question/answer format, this guide…

This publication provides the goals, concepts, objectives, and rationale for the six activity guides in this series of energy education materials. The organization of this series, as presented in this publication, centers around six goals which correspond to the activity guides. Under each goal are several concepts, which in turn, have several…

The arrangement of this packet is essentially evolutionary, with a conscious effort to alternate reading assignments, activities and experiments. It begins with solar energy facts and terminology as background to introduce the reader to basic concepts. It progresses into a discussion of passive solar systems. This is followed by several projects…

The Career Exploration for Elementary Children (CEC) project is a 3-year curriculum development effort begun in 1972 at the Perrysburgh, Ohio, Elm Street Elementary School. The three major desired outcomes of the project are: (1) development of a curriculum model for career exploration at the elementary school level, (2) the development of an…

This four-week unit on the American economic system for secondary students is intended to be a basic literacy unit in economics and to serve as a "sampler kit" demonstrating how economics can be taught interestingly, imaginatively, and with intellectual honesty to the subject matter. The unit's goals for students include ability to list the major…

This document is one of twelve describing the Career Planning Support System (CPSS) and its use. (CPSS is a comprehensive guidance program management system designed to provide information for local high schools to design, implement, and evaluate an upgraded career guidance program. CPSS describes how existing activities can be brought into an…

Two booklets, a guide and a handbook, comprise the grades 7-9 component of a series of guides for incorporating environmental education into the existing curriculum. The materials emphasize a multidisciplinary approach, use the concept of interdependence as an organizing theme, and offer suggestions for using the local community as a resource.…

This manual was prepared to guide educators in developing curriculum using performance (behavioral) objectives that include content information. The material is presented in three units: writing a unit of instruction, teaching a unit of instruction, and supplementing a unit of instruction. Each unit contains terminal and specific objectives for…

The publication, designed especially for counselors, presents activities addressed to a facilitator and intended to assist students in reaching career development outcomes. The first of seven sections, a users' guide, offers suggestions for implementing activities, explains the organization of the document, and provides a participant comment…