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Gamble, Linda B. – Teacher, 1978
The author developed a combined arts project with her first-graders in which the fine arts were treated as alternate languages for creative expression. Students first expressed themselves in verbal language by writing poems, then translated their conceptions into music, painting, dance, or pantomime. (SJL)
Descriptors: Activity Units, Communication (Thought Transfer), Creative Expression, Fine Arts
Download full textFricks, Richard – 1976
Based on two quilting minicourses conducted by the author with students from grades 7 through 10, this curriculum guide provides interdisciplinary objectives, student activities, and teaching procedures for a unit in which the rudiments of quilting are taught and practiced. Contents include (1) a list of objectives and concepts under headings of…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Art Activities, Curriculum Guides, Handicrafts
Peer reviewedStowell, Stephen – Social Education, 1995
Presents a high school unit about the U.S. Industrial Revolution featuring the Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. Includes student objectives, step-by-step instructional procedures, and discussion questions. Provides two maps, five illustrations, one photograph, and three student readings. (ACM)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Activity Units, Geography, History Instruction
Counts, Rubynelle – 1976
This curriculum guide for an interdisciplinary pottery unit includes concepts and objectives, student activities, and suggested resources. Introductory material indicates it was designed as a 2-day minicourse for the Mountain School seventh grade at Charles Counts' Pottery Workshop in Georgia but that material is adaptable to a regular school…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Art Activities, Career Education, Ceramics
Greenup, Shirley – 1976
Based on a minicourse taught by the author for students in grades 7 through 10 at the Mountain School (Lookout Mountain, Georgia), this curriculum guide provides for the integration of several curriculum areas into the teaching of leathercraft. Contents include (1) concepts and objectives for the course listed under the headings of language arts,…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Art Activities, Curriculum Guides, Handicrafts
Warnberg, Russell – 1994
This brief paper describes a school class project in which students "write" their own history books, based upon extensive research and writing activities. The guide advocates this as a way to create more interest in the subject area and allow students to become more involved in their own learning. Sections include: rationale; who could use; goals;…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Activity Units, Cooperative Learning, History Instruction
Counts, Rubynelle – 1976
Developed at The Mountain School (Lookout Mountain, Georgia), a project funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1974-75, this curriculum guide for an interdisciplinary minicourse in weaving provides for integration of environmental and career education goals with those in academic areas. Introductory material…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Art Activities, Career Education, Curriculum Guides
