Determined were aerospace principles for inclusion in fifth or sixth grade science programs and the extent to which current textbooks included these principles. A preliminary list of principles was formulated and submitted to the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Bureau of Standards for modification. From this, a revised…

The Pittsburgh Public Schools' television news program, "News 67-68," aimed at the fifth and sixth grade levels is conceived as a means of instructing students about the significance of national and local news events using television as an instructional device. An evaluation of the program was carried out by means of a questionnaire administered…

Career education activities for use in Grade 5 are presented in the document. Behavioral objectives for the following subject areas are provided: art, homemaking, language arts, math, music, physical education, resource people, science, social studies, and workshop abilities. The bulk of the document consists of six units of activities focusing on…

This curriculum guide for nutrition education grade 5, was designed to incorporate knowledge of thirteen concepts into the child's decision-making processes as a food consumer. These concepts, as covered by the guide, are: affecting bodily well-being through nutrition; affecting dental health through nutrition; models for diet selection;…

The study was designed to determine whether (1) creativity training using behavior modification techniques would produce significant gains in test scores of experimental over control subjects; (2) conditioned skills would generalize to a different problem operation--for which training was not given; and (3) training in fluency and flexibility…

This study compares the effectiveness of an electronic calculator, programmed as an immediate feedback device, with the effectiveness of pencil-and-paper exercises without immediate feedback for the learning of the 100 basic multiplication combinations. These two methods were also compared with regular classroom procedures. Subjects were…

A curriculum guide for the Camp Casey Outdoor Education program is contained in this document. Designed for fifth grade students and teachers in Northshore School District, Bothell, Washington, it emphasizes learning activities for use in the outdoors. General understandings relevant to the objectives of the program form the frame into which the…

Studied were attitudes of 54 fourth and fifth-grade teachers from 21 New York and Pennsylvania pilot schools prior to an initial summer workshop on Science-A Process Approach (AAAS) prior to installation of the AAAS during the 1969-70 school year. A questionnaire was mailed to each teacher. Data and conclusions were reported with regard to…

Developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project, these two sections are part of a unit on words. The first section (12 lessons) is designed to develop an understanding of and some skill in using the dictionary. The main concept developed in the 11 lessons of the second section is that words come into the language in a variety of ways…

This reader, intended for fifth-grade Latin students, contains more than a dozen cartoon figures illustrating Latin phrases. A simplified map of Imperial Rome is included. (RL)

Previous research has demonstrated a relationship between questions asked by teachers and corresponding levels of student achievement. The present study was designed to measure the effect of a unit in which fifth-grade students were taught a system of question classification. The results as measured by the criterion instrument Question…

In this study, the evaluation of pupil creativity was partitioned into affective and cognitive components while teacher behavior was divided into classroom practices and teacher attitude. Nine hundred and forty-five fifth grade pupils from a small city district were studied for one year. The teacher attitude measure did not relate to creative…

With the objective of investigating sex-typed interests as possible causes of differences in mathematics achievement between the sexes, the study made use of longitudinal data from the Growth Study begun at E. T. S. in 1961. Growth in mathematics achievement as measured by STEP Math and SCAT-Q was compared with changing interest patterns as…

Shows how a teacher used student curiosity and imagination in helping students to develop lifelike characters and to collaborate on writing short stories. Provides samples of the sketches and stories. (RL)

A fifth grade student, who is a successful writer, describes the process she goes through in writing a paper. (DD)