Speech given at the 54th annual convention of the NASSP. (EJS)

The guide contains a course outline and sample unit plans for a one-semester secondary school-level child development course geared toward career development. The detailed four-page course outline contains the following major headings: personality development and the family, stages of growth and development, techniques and skills in working with…

The Education for Parenthood Child Development Guide is designed to encourage Girl Scouts to choose various activities relating to: observing and working with children; drawing conclusions based on their own experiences and evidence; choosing their own activities and projects; collecting their own evidence on child development; creating projects…

As the appendix for a series of curriculum guides for consumer and homemaking education on the secondary level in Kentucky, this booklet contains instructional activities for classroom use in conjunction with the units in the comprehensive curriculum guides. Included are games, puzzles, skits, quizzes, survey forms, checklists, and review sheets…

This guide is intended to assist home economics teachers at all grade levels in presenting a curriculum concentrating on development of life skills. The guide is divided into six sections, one for each of the following content areas: child development, clothing and textiles, consumer education, foods and nutrition, housing and interiors, and…

This resource provides supplementary materials on coping skills for success in balancing work and family responsibilities for use in competency-based programs. Twenty modules are divided into six areas dealing with individual growth and development and one area dealing with child development. The six individual growth and development areas (and…

This set of activities is intended to assist home economics teachers in incorporating basic energy education concepts into traditional home economics topics. Awareness activities that are intended to help students develop an understanding of fundamental energy conservation concepts and, at the same time, apply these concepts in home economics…

This bibliography is a complete listing of all materials available to home economics teachers in Northern New Mexico through the Home Economics Rural Service Mobile Unit. Eleven subject areas are included: career education, child growth and development, clothing and crafts, consumer education, food and nutrition, guidance, housing and interior…

This report describes the Day Care Youth Helper Program (DCYHP) developed at a number of demonstration sites across the country. The program was designed to give high school and junior high school students an opportunity to work with preschool children through field experience in day care centers, coupled with a seminar for the planning of early…

This resource guide is designed to help teachers assist pregnant and parenting teens, such as those enrolled in Graduation, Reality, and Dual-Role Skills (GRADS) programs, in achieving the competencies outlined in the GRADS Ohio Competency Analysis Profile. Introductory materials include information on use of the guide and resource material on two…

This set of 61 student learning modules deals with various topics pertaining to human development. The modules, which are designed for use in performance-based vocational education programs, each contain the following components: an introduction for the student, a performance objective, a variety of learning activities, content information, a…

This instructor's guide is designed for use with an accompanying set of 61 student learning modules on human development. Included among the topics covered in the individual modules are the following: consumer and homemaking education (health and nutrition, personal appearance and grooming, puberty, menstruation, the human reproductive system,…

Standardized vocational education titles and core contents are provided for 10 home economics courses offered in Mississippi: (1) living skills; (2) exploratory home economics; (3) consumer homemaking I; (4) child care; (5) clothing and textiles; (6) consumer education; (7) family living and parenting; (8) family/individual health; (9) foods and…