This curriculum guide for nutrition education grade 3, was designed to incorporate knowledge of thirteen concepts into the child's decision-making processes as a food consumer. These concepts, as covered by the guide, are: affecting bodily well-being through nutrition; affecting dental health through nutrition; models for diet selection;…

This teacher's guide is for an elementary school science unit designed for use with third grade (or older) children in the schools of the Trust Territory of Micronesia. Although there is a degree of similarity to curriculum materials developed for the Science Curriculum Improvement Study, this Micronesian unit does not purport to be an adaptation…

This short, narrative pamphlet on the weather and the logger accompanies the appropriate grade level curriculum guide. (BP)

This document is a collection of mathematics pretests and posttests for grades 3 and 4 on the topics of sets, place value, addition-subtraction, multiplication, division, multiplication-division, and fractions. Two forms for each test are provided plus answer keys. This work was prepared under an ESEA Title III contract. (DT)

This second of three volumes designed to bring relevant, interdisciplinary, environmental learning experiences to elementary students is written for grades 3 and 4 and is concerned with the student's local environment. Titles of the 10 units included in this volume are: The School Lawn; The Vacant Lot; Giants on the Land: Trees in Our Environment;…

The pupil description worksheet consists of 134 items which can be checked by the teacher to develop a profile of the learner. Details for use of the worksheet and examples of resultant pupil profiles are given. (See TM 001 363 for summary of project; for other related documents, see TM 001 160, 364-374.) (MS)

This third grade environmental education guide is one of a series of guides, K-12, that were developed by teachers to help introduce environmental education into the total curriculum. The guides are supplementary in design; it is the teacher's decision when the concepts, objectives, activities, and resources may best be integrated into the…

A study was conducted in conjunction with the first public announced broadcast of dual audio television--a new method of combining simultaneous radio instruction and commercial entertainment TV. The study was designed to determine the audience which would be attracted to dual audio, the practicality of such instruction, and the correlation between…

This teacher's guide is for an elementary school science unit designed for use with third grade (or older) children in the Trust Territory of Micronesia. Although there is a degree of similarity to curriculum materials developed for the Science Curriculum Improvement Study, this Micronesian unit does not purport to be an adaptation or edition of…

The first section of the third grade unit of the Focus on Inner City Social Studies (FICSS) series (see SO 008 271) focuses attention on power in the city government. The unit is placed at the beginning of the year so that by November the students can more fully understand and draw upon the issues relevant to their local government. The content…

Unit three of the third grade level of the FICSS series (Focus on Inner City Social Studies -- SO 008 271) continues the study of some of the major social institutions which affect students' lives. The unit focuses specifically on the local business community. The ways in which businesses get started, the kinds of local businesses, some problems…

The second unit of the third grade level of the FICSS series (Focus on Inner City) Social Studies -- see SO 008 271) focuses on student awareness and involvement of local school and educational systems. Through the many activities of the unit, students learn about school boards, teachers, principals, superintendents, educational finance, and other…

The Schenectady Intensive Reading Instructional Teams (I. R. I. T.) Program, funded under the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III, is designed to provide intensive reading instruction to 135 students from eight elementary schools in the district. The students, mostly third and some fourth graders, are nominated by their classroom teachers…

Project COULD (Career Orientation Utilizing Language Development) was developed as a means of building skills, knowledges, and attitudes on elementary children's previously acquired backgrounds. Children learn to speak the grammar and vocabulary characteristic of the language heard most frequently at home and in the immediate environment. A series…

Project COULD (Career Orientation Utilizing Language Development) was developed as a means of building skills, knowledges, and attitudes on elementary children's previously acquired backgrounds. Children learn to speak the grammar and vocabulary characteristic of the language heard most frequently at home and in the immediate environment. Each…