This publication is the third work in the UNESCO series "The Teaching of Basic Sciences," and is based on the proceedings of the international conference on "The Education of Teachers for Integrated Science." The views of all the working groups of the conference, together with edited texts of the papers presented, form the text…

Dental health education can be an integral part of the school curriculum, even when there are constraints on time and money and a formal health instruction program is lacking. Under these less than ideal circumstances, dental health education may be correlated at all grade levels with instruction in other subjects including, but not limited to,…

Of interest to curriculum developers, the materials in this paper pertain to the communication component of the prelaw curriculum initiated in the 1979-80 school year at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The materials include (1) a brief decription of the prelaw program; (2) information sheets for students considering the program;…

The organization of the ideas for career education activities is based on four components of career development; these form the four sections of the book: (1) self-awareness and assessment, (2) career awareness and exploration, (3) career decision making, and (4) career planning and placement. The book is further divided into elementary and…

The booklet is for participants in a Project GROW (Gaining the Realities of Work) career education inservice training session and is part of a package which includes slide/tape presentations, handouts, a game, and graded classroom activity packs. Three sequential modules comprise the training session; the third module is to be postponed until…

The book contains a series of career-oriented ideas for social studies teachers, contributed by teachers in the East Providence Career Education Project. The ideas are the basis of the interdisciplinary contracting system for grades 7-12 in three pilot schools. They are classified by occupational clusters, which the teachers can use to incorporate…

Eight units of study make up this senior high school Interdisciplinary Cooperative Education Program (ICEP) curriculum designed (1) to assist seniors in learning and developing the skills, knowledge, personal traits, health habits, work habits, safety habits, pride in achievement, and modes of conduct necessary for success; and (2) to assist them…

This booklet is prepared to help teachers from different disciplines to set goals and to design teaching/learning experiences that span two or more disciplines. Interdisciplinary studies provide students with opportunities and skills to synthesize seemingly disparate facts or events for greater understanding of human concerns. Three specific goals…

The book contains a series of career-oriented ideas for science teachers, contributed by teachers in the East Providence Career Education Project. The ideas are the basis of the interdisciplinary contracting system for grades 7-12 in three pilot schools. They are classified by occupational clusters, which the teachers can use to incorporate their…

The book contains a series of career-oriented ideas for mathematics teachers, contributed by teachers in the East Providence Career Education Project. The ideas are the basis of the interdisciplinary contracting system for grades 7-12 in three pilot schools. They are classified by occupational clusters, which the teachers can use to incorporate…

The Living Library is a library where students can check out classroom pets as well as books. This guide describes the installation and implementation of a Living Library. The guide is presented in the following 10 sections: (1) a description of and rationale for a Living Library; (2) an implementation timeline developed for the intermediate…

The document is a sampling of lesson plans for career education in secondary academic subject areas, produced by North Dakota school personnel with the State board, for a vocational education exemplary project. It is a preliminary draft compiled for field-testing. Project objectives include: (1) preparing youth to cope with continued change in the…

The study identified primary grade-level materials that might be useful in helping children considered socioeconomically disadvantaged to secure personal identities and self-awareness in relation to the social and economic systems around them. Major project activities were: (1) developing pertinent course-level goals for career and consumer…

The document consists of teaching outlines which one school district's teachers developed and used in the early stages of an exemplary program to provide students with occupational information and to guide and instruct them in career development. The first 50 pages contain general materials: an activity calendar, a guide to exemplary programs, and…

The occupational resource unit, one of a series encompassing grade levels 1-10, was prepared by the Lincoln County (West Virginia) Exemplary Project staff to provide career exploration learning activities for the ninth and tenth grades. The materials are designed to provide experiences that will enable students to make realistic occupational…