This brochure deals with three basic types of elementary schools: K-6, K-8, and senior elementary. Floor plans and sketches illustrate specifications for the school gymnasium, dressing rooms, drying rooms, boys' and girls' shower rooms, washrooms, instructors' offices, storage areas, stage, and playing fields. (Author/MLF)

This booklet illustrates a number of suggested plans, with the drawings presenting ideas for space arrangement, facilities, and equipment rather than prescribed layouts. In established schools, many of the suggestions may be applied to improve existing arrangements. Room plans are presented for combined woodwork-metalwork and separated…

This guide is designed to assist Federal and State agencies, local school authorities, and other personnel concerned with planning or equipping school food service facilities. The document indicates the minimum quantity of equipment needed to efficiently operate a school food service by specifying the type, size, and quantity of equipment required…

The layouts and specifications in this booklet are intended to assist those involved in planning music facilities for elementary and secondary schools. Drawings, room plans, and text illustrate specifications for location; space relationship; combined and separate instrumental and vocal rooms; practice rooms; and auxiliary areas. Particular…

If school administrators do not have a genuine commitment to education that is backed up by funds for staff development, they should steer away from open plan schools. (Author/MLF)

This booklet shows several schemes for the use of teaching spaces and quiet areas for the emotionally disturbed. There are designs for three levels of emotional disorder--severe, moderate, and mild. The schemes shown for teaching areas for severely disturbed children are fairly rigid in their design, with noisy and quiet areas being clearly…

Because of rising costs and rapid educational change, the architectural design of a school becomes important to the accomplishment of an educational program. The contemporary architect must design a building with one eye on its construction and maintenance costs and the other on new materials and products and on expanding educational programs.…

The media center is generally one of the larger units of the school plant in which all students and teachers spend some time each day; therefore, effort should be made to create a pleasant and visually attractive learning environment. The purpose of this guide is to furnish established, tested guidelines for the planning and construction of…

Space relations are discussed in this article, part of a six-part series on planning and design of media centers. (Author/MLF)

This presentation of suggested layouts and specifications for home economics facilities has been prepared to be of service to school boards, architects, teachers, and administrators who are planning new schools or making renovations to existing structures. Room layouts are shown for a foods and nutrition room, or the foods and nutrition area of a…

This publication was developed to assist educators, engineers, and architects in planning facilities for occupational education. The first section is primarily concerned with the educator's responsibilities for involving staff and community in orderly planning. The second part is concerned with the technical characteristics of occupational…

Recommendations are offered for an adequate physical education instructional program to be considered for all proposed construction in the state. Sizes and dimensions for indoor and outdoor facilities, at the elementary, middle, and high school level are provided, with specific recommendations for middle and high school gymnasiums. A concluding…

It is the purpose of this guide to provide established, well-tested guidelines for planning and constructing food service facilities. These guidelines attempt to get the most efficient and economical operation from a school's food service facilities by providing pertinent information for expanding and remodeling existing facilities, as well as…

The architects, with the teaching staff, administration, students, and community, worked as a team to make a coordinated statement of the physical, functional, and esthetic proposals for a new school. The space and functional requirements of each teaching area have been documented and analyzed to arrive at a realistic appraisal of need for the…

The major purpose of this guide is to elicit the information necessary for writing educational specifications for facilities to house technical education programs in metallurgy. It is organized in these parts: (1) Part I discusses the major purpose, underlying assumptions, recent instructional trends, and guiding principles utilized in the…