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New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1987
This guide suggests ways to prevent specific kinds of common school accidents by incorporating safety into curriculum areas. Strategies for accident prevention are organized by grade level under these categories: (1) Introductory Strategies; (2) Classroom; (3) Schoolyard; (4) Gymnasium and Playing Field; (5) Cafeteria; and (6) School Building. A…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Safety Education
Poulton, Prue; Symons, Gillian – 1999
The Eco School information pack contains 10 sections outlining specific school areas that can be assessed by students for meeting the needs of all its users, the extent to which these areas use and abuse environmental resources, and the aesthetic contribution they make to the locality. Using this initial research, the document helps students…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
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Stucker, Kathryn Moore – School Arts, 1979
Describes a school-wide project in which elementary students beautified their school walls with murals of their own design. This article is one of four in this issue on elementary school mural projects. (SJL)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Childrens Art, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Education
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Santana, Clyde – School Arts, 1979
Third- and fourth-grade volunteers created two large murals at Nishuane Elementary School. This article is one of four in this issue on elementary mural projects. (SJL)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Childrens Art, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Education
Follman, Joseph; And Others – 1994
Defining service learning as the formal integration of public service into student instruction and learning, this guide provides teachers with ideas for narrowing the gap between what students do in school and what they will do after they leave school. The example activities, derived from actual projects, demonstrate the nearly limitless range of…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Gilstrap, Robert L. – Childhood Education, 1997
Examines the use of technology under two different contexts: university courses for future middle school teachers, and middle school classrooms. Emphasizes the need for young adolescents to become technologically literate. Discusses different programs to help middle school students learn how to use technology, and at the same time helping them…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development
Bernstein-Sidney, Ethel – 1976
Promoting changes to improve the design or use of a school's play area is the challenge of this Unified Sciences and Mathematics for Elementary Schools (USMES) unit. The challenge is general enough to apply to many problem-solving situations in mathematics, science, social science, and language arts at any elementary school level (grades 1-8). The…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics