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Download full textWestern Curriculum Project on Canada Studies, Edmonton (Alberta). – 1970
This newsletter is intended to be a bi-annual publication which will inform interested persons about the progress of this Project. It is concerned with curriculum studies on the theme of Canadian urbanization and its effects on our lives and environment. The emphasis is on behavioral change; the materials and the activities produced have as their…
Descriptors: Community Study, Curriculum Development, Environmental Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Henderson, Martha T. – 1970
The purpose of this paper is to alert elementary and secondary social studies teachers to certain new approaches to projects and materials in environmental education in the context of education in general. It is also a guide to the use of other available programs. Selective rather than complete, the paper offers a sampling of programs social…
Descriptors: Community Study, Conservation Education, Cultural Awareness, Environmental Education
Western Curriculum Project on Canada Studies, Edmonton (Alberta). – 1972
The Powell River Project proposed to design a curriculum with the Canadian urban environment as a major focus, using elementary teachers as developers (ED 055 018). This progress report contains individual summaries from seven elementary teachers, outlining the process of determining the children's knowledge of self and of the world around them.…
Descriptors: Community Study, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
Western Curriculum Project on Canada Studies, Edmonton (Alberta). – 1971
The bi-annual, official newsletter keeps interested persons informed with up to date progress of the project. ED 048 026, the first newsletter, describes the broad concerns and objectives of the newsletter. This issue focuses on the objectives of fourteen sub-projects which develop curriculum materials and teaching strategies on a variety of…
Descriptors: Community Study, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Environmental Education
Western Curriculum Project on Canada Studies, Edmonton (Alberta). – 1971
This is a progress report of a project in the process of developing an interdisciplinary secondary school curriculum on the Canadian urban environment. The primary goal is to encourage constructive involvement in urban life and community decision-making, and develop a personal and social competence that will engender a greater commitment to the…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Community Study, Concept Teaching, Ecology
Western Curriculum Project on Canada Studies, Edmonton (Alberta). – 1971
The broad area selected by the Calgary Project was the development of a curriculum on urban aesthetics. During their work in 1970-71, they concluded that the best way to develop visual awareness was through the conceptual development of the visual components or the images and elements of design in terms of human values of urban areas. The modular…
Descriptors: Art Education, Community Study, Concept Teaching, Curriculum Development
Allen, Charles L.; Burke, Marguerite V. – 1971
The overall objective of this project is to develop an interdisciplinary social science curriculum to encourage elementary school children to view, in an historical perspective, the emergence of a Canadian identity and its relationship to continuing Canadian concerns; and, to examine his own identity and values, the identity of others, and his…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Community Study, Concept Teaching
