Designed for adult basic education students at the grade 4, 5, or 6 level, this student workbook and accompanying instructor's guide (separate document) comprise the Adult Basic Education Level III package on the metric system. The content of this workbook is occupationally oriented. (There are references to measurement tasks used within 31…

Designed for adult basic education students at the grade 7, 8, or 9 level, this student workbook and accompanying instructor's guide (separate document) comprise the Adult Basic Education Level III package on the metric system. The content of this workbook is occupationally oriented. (There are references to measurement tasks used within 50…

This workbook and the accompanying instructor's guide, three audio tape cassettes, and script for the audio tape comprise the Adult Basic Education Level I (grade 1.5) package on the metric system. The workbook's six sections follow a problem solving approach and present measurement activities similar to those involved in daily activities (i.e.,…

The six sections of this audio tape script and accompanying audio tapes correspond to a student workbook, all of which comprise, along with an instructor's guide, the Adult Basic Education (ABE) Level I (grade 1.5) package on the metric system, designed to provide the ABE student with skill in using the metric system, particularly in relation to…

Part of an Office of Education three-year project on metric education, the position paper is intended to alert and prepare teachers, curriculum developers, and administrators in vocational, technical, and adult education to the change over to the metric system. The five chapters cover issues in metric education, what the metric system is all…

Intended to aid vocational and adult educators in implementing metric education in their classrooms, this guide is one product of a curriculum development project which produced an annotated bibliography, a position paper, 58 metric instructional packages, and a series of inservice workshops. The guide first gives an overview of the contents of…

Organization of this final report is based on the six major objectives of the project: To compile an annotated bibliography on metric education for vocational, technical, and adult education; to develop a position paper on metric education for the same target audiences; to develop and field-test metric packages for 75 vocational, technical program…

This guide and the accompanying student workbook (separate document) comprise the Adult Basic Education Level II (grades 4, 5, and 6) package on the metric system. An introductory section provides background information on adult basic daily living skills, a discussion of the design and use of the student workbook, and information on what the…

This guide and the accompanying student workbook (separate document) comprise the Adult Basic Education Level III (grades 7, 8, and 9) package on the metric system. An introductory section provides background information on adult basic daily living skills, a discussion of the design and use of the student workbook, and information on what the…

This guide and the accompanying student workbook, three audio tape cassettes, and script for the audio tape comprise the Adult Basic Education Level I (grade 1.5) package on the metric system. An introductory section to this guide provides (1) an overview of the materials in the package, and also includes a field tested six-step teaching sequence…