Three valuable approaches to utilize in improving the social studies curriculum may be to develop resource units, teaching units, and lesson plans. Resource units contain a collection of more objectives, learning activities, evaluation techniques, and bibliographical entries than can possibly be used by a given teacher for a particular classroom…

Lesson plans and teaching suggestions for an interdisciplinary approach to environmental education are presented in this teacher's guide for use in the National Environmental Education Development (NEED) program. The program attempts to encourage a student to develop an awareness of his environment that will lead to a personal sense of involvement…

IN DEVELOPING TEACHING PLANS, (1) SCOPE, THE MAJOR AREAS OF CONTENT, AND (2) SEQUENCE, THE ORDER IN WHICH CONTENT WILL BE DEVELOPED, MUST BE CONSIDERED. MAJOR AREAS OF CONTENT FOR A PROPOSED CURRICULUM PLAN INCLUDE "ROLES OF WOMEN" CORE, EDUCATION FOR HOMEMAKING AND FAMILY LIFE, EDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT INVOLVING HOME ECONOMICS KNOWLEDGES AND…

This guide is part of the Management for Effective Teaching (MET) support kit, a pilot project developed by the Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools to assist elementary school teachers in planning, managaing, and implementing the county's curriculum, Program of Studies (POS). In this guide, a sample lesson plan of a teaching-learning activity…

Six teaching units which were developed by the 24 institute participants are given. "Wood Identification and Chemistry" covers the physical properties and structural features of hardwoods and softwoods. "Seasoning" explains air drying, kiln drying, and seven special lumber seasoning processes. "Research on Laminates"…

The purpose of this Child Development Associate (CDA) training module, one of a series of 18, is to help the CDA intern develop a planned curriculum for an early childhood program. The module stipulates competency-based objectives and provides essential information, suggestions, examples and learning activities on topics related to the objectives.…

This handbook is intended to aid industrial educators in developing material processing activities for their programs; it is especially designed to aid educators in implementing "The Wisconsin Guide to Local Curriculum Improvement in Industrial Education, K-12." The guide provides suggested outlines and models that could be used to…

Five lesson plans that were prepared for Black History Month can be used to teach purposeful, interesting, and reasonably balanced black history to students in grades 3-6. Objectives for preparing black studies units are to: (1) make reasonably balanced presentations through social studies, language arts, music, and other appropriate subject…

This 51-item annotated bibliography is composed of materials for teachers who are teaching foreign languages at the elementary or secondary levels. For each of the entries, the following information is indicated: target language, educational level, material type, content area, title, date of publication, author/developer, publisher and…