Research has shown that progressive methods taught in teacher education programs have little impact on traditional approaches teacher candidates encounter during their internship semester. To understand how to better address this disconnect with regard to preparing teacher candidates, the study reported here used instrumental case studies to…

Concepts and supporting data pertaining to major health problems facing youth today as well as those anticipated in the next decade are enumerated in this resource. The material is designed as a reference for curriculum planners and classroom teachers in developing curriculum and teaching guides, units and instruction, and other curriculum…

The author discusses the "concepts approach" to physical education (helping students learn WHY physical education is important, HOW to exercise properly, and WHAT individual needs must be met) and presents samples of how concepts programs have been implemented in the recent past. (MJB)

Examined whether the economic concepts identified in "A Framework for Teaching Economics: Basic Concepts" were incorporated in the study guides of schools participating in the Developmental Economic Education Program. The economic concepts in the guides were found to be primarily definitional in nature and fairly similar across grades.…

This research study was undertaken to determine prevalence of health misconceptions of twelfth grade students in each of three sizes of public high schools in the state of Colorado. Also, whether prevalence of misconceptions was related to factors of: sex, grade-point average, level of father's education, level of mother's education, father's…

Research into the problems, causes, and possible solutions to the environmental crisis confronting mankind led to the development of these guidelines for curriculum development by the Interdisciplinary Environmental Education Project of Broward County, Florida. The purpose of the research was to determine the role that could be played by the…

A course on the subject of death gave students an insight into their own attitudes and fears and an understanding of the universality of the emotions the subject engenders. (JD)

Discusses interpreting the mean for a given set of data in two different ways. The first interpretation relates the mean to an equal distribution of data items, whereas the second interpretation relates the mean to a balancing point of the data. Also presents simple manipulative and graphing activities to provide a deeper understanding of the…

This guide was developed by a national professional association for use by teachers of industrial arts for the improvement of instruction. Contents of this fourth revised edition suggest possibilities of an organized program of industrial arts structured to provide for teaching concepts that more realistically lead to a fuller comprehension of…

This article offers a radical criticism of the Joint Council's publication: "A Framework for Teaching the Basic Concepts." It specifies a five-point alternative view of economics which takes, among other things, greater account of history and ideology. (JDH)

Offers a critique of Heilbroner's paper (see SO516704). Concludes that because the alternative view of economics offered by Heilbroner subjugates analytical concepts to an ideological and historical vision, it is not as teachable. (JDH)

This book, one in the series on Aerospace Education III, includes a discussion of the essentials of propulsion, control, and guidance and the conditions of space travel. Chapter 1 provides a brief account of basic laws of celestial mechanics. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 are devoted to the chemical principles of propulsion. Included are the basics of…

Enabling teachers to present a detailed unit on smoking is an objective of this curriculum guide. It organizes information which, if made a relevant part of the student's experience, attempts to help him effectively resist the pressures to begin smoking. Seventeen units, arranged in sequential order, cover cardiovascular and respiratory systems,…

Second of a two part article reviewing the underlying concepts involving the mole concept. (SL)