This book is part of a series of readers that seeks to stimulate the perceptive faculties of the pupil, provide practical information, and interest them in various arts and occupations by which hundreds of millions of persons earn their daily bread. Above all, it is hoped that the books in this series will create and foster in the mind of every…

This document is a collection of career profiles providing details on over 100 different careers in the sciences and mathematics. Each profile offers information on work performed, working conditions, hours and earnings, education and training, licenses and certification, personal qualifications, social and psychological factors, location,…

This textbook presents the divisions of arithmetic in their natural order. The fundamental operations upon integers, common fractions, decimals, denominate numbers, and numbers expressed by letters, are followed by their applications to business and to various employments. The pupil is taught to develop observation and thought power, rather than…

Describes a classroom game designed to help junior high students understand the historic and social relationships associated with clan names in the Manding-speaking areas of West Africa. (CK)

This self-instructional manual is designed to assist professionals in vocational rehabilitation in the effective use of the fourth edition (1977) of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) and closely related materials (i.e., Guide for Occupational Exploration, Worker Trait Group Guide, Career Information System Guide, and Handbook for…

The student booklet presents short chapters illustrating the enclaves unit of the Minneapolis Multi-Ethnic Curriculum Project for secondary schools. A seven-page comic book is also included in the document. Six brief chapters in the student booklet describe ethnic neighborhoods and occupations. Chapter I discusses the Cuban refugees in Miami as…

These 21 guides are intended for teachers, counselors, admissions officers and students. Each guide is one page long, and provides students with a range of occupations opened by the related academic subject. It introduces students to primary sources of career information and helps them develop life-long skills needed to make career choices by…

A wide variety of elementary activities focus on developing positive attitudes toward, and an understanding of, the world of work. Examples of activities include examining individual similarities and differences, completing a family tree, exploring career roles and options, and learning job-related vocabulary. This document is one of a collection…

This computer-assisted curriculum is intended to be used to enhance a vocational mathematics/applied mathematics course. A total of 32 packets were produced to increase the basic mathematics skills of students in the following vocational programs: automotive trades, beauty culture, building trades, climate control, electrical trades,…

This book, which is intended for high school students, contains descriptions of the top 250 jobs in the United States. Presented first is an introduction that includes tips on identifying jobs of interest, an explanation of the entries provided in each job description, and things to consider when making a career decision. The job descriptions,…

Many feel that more female role models are needed in the physical sciences to encourage young women to consider careers in chemistry and physics. This publication contains 28 profiles of women with careers in physics. Each one is written to show how each woman would spend a workday and some of the activities in which she might participate. Careers…

This set of curriculum materials is a remedial, self-paced occupational mathematics program for educationally disadvantaged students. Experienced shop instructors worked with a mathematics consultant to develop and refine materials designed in a prior project. The curriculum package titled Math-PAC is comprised of a teacher management system and…

This unit, one in a series of packets of teacher and student materials for cooperative occupational education (COE) designed for special needs students, is intended to familiarize students with the main concepts in cooperative occupational education and their benefits. Each unit will probably require more than a single period of instruction.…

Intended to provide about 10 hours of instruction to first-year vocational agriculture students, this instructional unit introduces students to the horticulture industry, provides a broad background of horticultural practices, and covers many skills that can be directly applied by students in their projects. Topics of the individual sections of…

The document, one in a series of four on women in American history, discusses women in the ages of expansion and reform (1820-1860). Designed to supplement U.S. history textbooks, the book is presented in six chapters. Chapter I describes the "true woman," an ideal cultivated by women writers, educators, and magazine editors. The four virtues were…