Descriptor
Source
| Bureau of Education,… | 1 |
| Office of Education, US… | 1 |
| Office of Education, United… | 1 |
| Outdoor Communicator | 1 |
| United States Bureau of… | 1 |
Publication Type
| Historical Materials | 6 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 2 |
| Reports - Research | 2 |
| Books | 1 |
| Creative Works | 1 |
| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 1 |
| Journal Articles | 1 |
Education Level
| Elementary Secondary Education | 4 |
| Elementary Education | 1 |
Audience
| Administrators | 1 |
| Students | 1 |
| Teachers | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Roth, Charles E. – Outdoor Communicator, 1985
Provides a brief biography of Thornton Burgess, author of 70 books and over 15,000 children's nature stories that appeared daily in newspapers for 36 years. Discusses the renewed interest in Burgess's stories, the moral values they express, and the establishment in his honor of Laughing Brook and Greenbriar Nature Centers. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Animals, Authors, Biographies, Books
Download full textBathurst, Effie G.; Hill, Wilhelmina – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1957
This bulletin for teachers and supervisors tells how children of the United States are learning to conserve the Nation's reserves of soil, water, forests, fish, wildlife, minerals, and other natural resources. The purpose of this bulletin is to serve as a source of good practices to be dipped into as needed for ideas, not necessarily to be read…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Conservation (Environment), Forestry, Wildlife
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
During the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1913, the field force of the Alaska school service consisted of 5 superintendents, 109 teachers, 11 physicians (1 of whom also filled another position), 9 nurses, and 3 hospital attendants. Seventy-seven schools were maintained, with an enrollment of 3,563, and an average attendance of 1.797. This…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Reservation American Indians, Teaching Conditions, Financial Support
Benton-Banai, Edward – 1979
A book on the history, philosophy, and teachings of the Ojibway people, as passed down to the present generation by parents, grandparents, and elders of the Lac Court Oreilles Reservation (Wisconsin), contains material from oral tradition and is named "Mishomis," the Ojibway word for grandfather. Other Ojibway words and names appear in…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indian Literature
Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1936
Among areas governed by the United States, Alaska is unique in a number of ways; one of special interest to education officials and students is concerned with the maintenance within its borders of two publicly supported school systems--one by the Federal Government and one by the Territory. It was chiefly in the interest of the former that the…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, American Indian Education, Scientific Research, School Districts
Fox, Florence C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
Recreational areas in the form of State parks and forests bear a close relationship to the welfare of the boys and girls of America. This bulletin is in accord with the plan of the bureau to offer, from time to time, to the elementary schools of the country certain subjects of study in the form of new materials of instructions so prepared that…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Recreation, Parks, Resident Camp Programs
