This document is intended to provide Minnesota educators a means of systematically viewing Environmental Education (EE) programs within their schools or districts, and provide a tool for integrating EE into all courses and programs in accordance with the State Board Curriculum Rule 3500.1075. The material is divided into four chapters, followed by…

This book presents a history of writing instruction outside general composition courses in American secondary and higher education, from the founding of the public secondary school system and research universities in the 1870s through the spread of the writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) movement in the 1980s. The book examines the ways writing…

This resource book is intended for teachers using a thematic immersion approach to social studies instruction. Broad categories addressed include: (1) conflict; (2) settlement of the United States; (3) global awareness; and (4) cultural diversity within the United States. Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of the theme immersion process. Chapters…

The humanities, an area of study often left out of the elementary curriculum, is essential as society becomes more global in nature. Because of the time restrictions in elementary teaching schedules, the humanities must be incorporated into the school program, not as an extra class, but as an enrichment of what is already taught. The purpose of…

This bulletin discusses the aspects of curriculum development that relate to environmental education. The first of five sections establishes the need for curriculum development that addresses the emotional, cultural, and sociological factors that influence the curriculum framework in view of the need for educational reform. The second section…

To introduce primary grade children to the five themes in geography, a play about the United States is presented as a musical. The five themes are location, place, human environment interaction, region, and movement. The play is designed to help students understand the multicultural nature of U.S. history. Eleven states are located on a map and…

A course using English literature and urban geography to study the development and lifestyle of the city is described. (DE)

This course uses urban geography and literature to involve students in the urban environment. Six humanities units on the topics of individual identity in the city, history and growth, form and fiction, urban living, urban problems, and individual creativity in the city are described. (DE)

Two science classroom techniques that can be used in the social studies classroom to motivate students involve puzzling phenomena and relating science to social issues such as over-population, energy, and pollution. (JR)

Some of the difficulties of building an interdisciplinary program are discussed, and the experiences of the West Islip School District in New York in building such a program for grades 7-12 are described. (RM)

Noting that breaking off romantic relationships can be traumatic even when the end is welcome, this paper describes the strategies and stages of relationship termination and suggests ways for instructors of oral interpretation and/or interpersonal communication classes to illustrate such relational decay. The first section deals with relationship…

The Chapter 1 Developer/Demonstration Program: Learning To Read through the Arts (LTRTA) was developed to offer intensive reading instruction to eligible New York City students through the integration of a total reading program with a total arts program, from October 1984 to June 1985. Evaluation of the program showed the following: (1) that all…

Teaching English composition and interpersonal communication concurrently enhances students' opportunities to learn and apply communication skills. Since many of these skills are common to both courses of study, not only is learning reinforced, but the skills can be presented and practiced in a variety of ways. More important, English composition…

In an effort to help basic skills students learn the skills they need to survive in college-level studies and remediate critical areas as quickly as possible, many community colleges have overlooked the value of other studies and the more general literacy that is essential to any education. By rushing to comply with students' utilitarian goals,…

One new approach to argumentative writing in an advanced composition course uses the creative juxtaposition of rhetorical and psychological theories and behavioristic research. All of the assignments for the course simulate the kinds of writing actually performed in the professional fields of advertising, politics, business, law, and religion.…