Presented is a curriculum guide and teaching activities for a K-12 program in environmental education. The program is based on forty-four important environmental education concepts. These concepts are sequenced according to grade level. Activities to teach each concept are suggested. The concepts are organized around the interdependency of living…

The guide is one of a series for a statewide career education development project in Hawaii, based on a conceptual framework encompassing grades K-14. An introductory section in each guide includes directions for users; rationale for the project; a conceptual model (areas of individual growth, sequences of experience, and components of the…

The presentation of timely factual knowledge concerning drug abuse is the goal of this teacher's guide for drug education. It is designed as an open-ended guide to aid the teacher in the molding and changing of attitudes toward drug abuse. Categories of topics include: emergency procedures; vocabulary--both technical and jargon; drug pharmacology…

The publication provides guidelines for local school personnel to use in the development of programs of study. In the preparation of this resource, the objectives were: 1) to detect and correct historic distortions, fallacies, commissions and omissions in the teaching of the history of the United States and the State of Illinois; 2) to examine…

This handbook is based upon a new social studies curriculum designed to give students guided experience in the responsible use of personal freedom. The new approach seeks to provide actual experience in the making of choices and judgements in order to improve man's relationship to his social and physical environment. Thus, the new social studies…

This curriculum guide for grades K-6 was prepared to assist teachers and students in learning about the metric system. An introductory section presents a brief history of the metric system and the rationale for introducing it into the schools. Instructional objectives and suggested learning activities are presented for each grade level. The…

The guide is one of a series for a statewide career education development project in Hawaii, based on a conceptual framework encompassing grades K-14. An introductory section in each guide includes directions for users; rationale for the project; a conceptual model (areas of individual growth, sequences of experience, and components of the…

The guide provides a career education curriculum for grades K-6, incorporating the career awareness concept into the ongoing curriculum. The first section, offering guidelines for grades 1-3, focuses on the family. These educational objectives form the organizational foundation for specific grade level instructional objectives, procedures and/or…

THE CHILD WITH NO SPEECH HANDICAPS NEEDS TRAINING IF HE IS TO DEVELOP A SPEECH PATTERN WHICH IS AN ASSET RATHER THAN A LIABILITY. THE REGULAR CLASSROOM TEACHING MUST BE PREPARED TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION IN CORRECT SPEAKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES. THE CURRICULUM SHOULD PROVIDE FOR INSTRUCTION IN THE BASIC ATTITUDES AND…

This publication is designed as a model to assist elementary teachers in developing environmental education activities in all subject areas. Both public school and college educators developed this guide to help make children aware of the value of the environment and of the responsibility they have for conserving it. Discussions of the curriculum…

A concept approach to teaching music to young children is presented. Thirteen key concepts which should have meaning for the young child are presented (for example, "in music there is usually a steady recurring pulse called the beat"). For each concept, activities, points to remember in teaching, and lists of songs (with the books in which they…

The purpose of the guide is to assist faculty in the implementation of the concept of career education in grades K-6 of the Muscatine (Iowa) Community Schools. The guide begins with an outline of the philosophy and goals of career awareness and tables listing learning activities for an instructional sequence emphasizing self-awareness followed by…

The guide is designed to give Texas school personnel detailed suggestions for developing career awareness beginning with kindergarten and continuing through grade 6. The document opens with a rationale for career education and lists career concepts and objectives. The responsibilities of the elementary school principal and teacher in integrating…

This drug education guide provides a valuable resource for educators, helping them to understand the problems associated with drug misuse and the extent and significance of drug problems in schools. The guide is designed to help give local schools the leadership and tools with which to initiate an effective program for their own needs. Section 1…