This booklet brings the student some knowledge of drugs and how they are used and abused by people. Fourteen lessons for independent study are presented. Each lesson starts with a pretest for self-assessment purposes. If the score on the pretest indicates the student would benefit from further study on the particular lesson, general subject matter…

Includes three lesson plans. Outlines a journalism yearbook project designed to give students the necessary skills to shoot effective photos and to process prints for student publications. Reports on a project involving advanced photography students in the creation of unique photographic images with the electronic flash unit. Describes a teaching…

The Civil War was the first American war thoroughly caught on film. Mathew Brady and his crew of photographers captured many images of this divisive war, ranging from portraits to battle scenes. These photographs--over 1,000--are in the American Memory Collection's "Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865." This lesson plan asks…

This unit seeks to teach Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in a way that the students will have a full understanding of the play. The unit's introduction is designed to get the students acquainted with Shakespeare's language, to motivate them to read the play, and to make them feel confident about approaching the play. Lessons in the unit are fun,…

The purpose of the experimental curriculum is to give grade 11 and grade 12 students an understanding of the problems and decisions that face every businessman in starting and managing a business. Included in this manual are 15 lesson plans and a major student project. The project attempts to serve as a culminating activity for many of the topics…

This module is one of a series of 127 performance-based teacher education (PBTE) learning packages focusing upon specific professional competencies of vocational teachers. The competencies upon which these modules are based were identified and verified through research as being important to successful vocational teaching at both the secondary and…

This course description is designed to help teachers integrate a section dealing with bilingual education into secondary social studies classes. After instruction, students examine current bilingual educational policies and practices in the United States, judge the effectiveness of these policies and practices in meeting the educational needs of…

This document profiles a total of 78 resources to assist individuals responsible for development and implementation of career academies. The resources are organized into sections that are each devoted to one of the following types of information resources: information indexes; search engines; World Wide Web portals for education; lesson plan…

Describes a service learning project where students identify a real political problem, research related issues, and propose a solution. Members of the U.S. Congress and county offices of education have created corresponding awards programs. Includes procedures for creating a local project. (MJP)

This instructor's guide accompanies the self-paced student training modules on auto mechanics, one of which is available separately as CE 032 867. Introductory materials include an introduction to pre-apprenticeship and its three phases of training, a recommended preocedure for conducting pre-apprenticeship training, and a course outline. Teaching…

This instructor's guide accompanies the self-paced student training modules on the electrical trade, one of which is available separately as CE 032 874. Introductory materials include an introduction to pre-apprenticeship training, and a course outline. Teaching outlines are then provided for the 11 modules that comprise this course. For each…

Nineteen units of lesson plans for teaching career orientation and exploration to students in grades 8 and 9 stress positive attitudes, self-knowledge, occupational information, and basic career skills; topics range from world-of-work orientation, self-appraisal, and occupational clusters to tentative career choice, job application, and career…

Outlines instructions for conducting a student forum addressing the relevance and appropriateness of character education. Five students agree to portray fictional members of the panel (teacher, minister, single parent). The rest of the class researches the issue and asks questions. (MJP)

This instructor's guide accompanies the self-paced student training modules on trowel trades, four of which are available separately as CE 032 869-872. Introductory materials include an introduction to pre-apprenticeship and its three phases of training, a recommended procedure for conducting pre-apprenticeship training, and a course outline.…

This instructor's guide accompanies the self-paced student training modules on the carpentry trade, two of which are available separately as CE 032 876-877. Introductory materials include an introduction to pre-apprenticeship and its three phases of training, a recommended procedure for conducting pre-apprenticeship training, and a course outline.…