This module is designed to aid the fifth-grade teacher in implementing a self-awareness program to develop positive self-images among his or her pupils. Terminal and performance objectives for students are described, and activities leading to the realization of those objectives are suggested. The materials necessary for each activity are listed. A…

This self-instructional package designed for art students in Grades 5 and 6 enables students to decide which set of lines in a group of lines are parallel, to show the vanishing points of several boxes by extending parallel lines, and to increase their desire to draw objects in perspective. Total time involved for the student is approximately…

The purpose of this study was to determine if children's performance in solving verbally stated arithmetic problems varied when word clues were included or omitted. The sample consisted of 382 fifth-grade children enrolled in four schools of one school system. Twelve sets of problems were so constructed that each set contained two similar problem…

Forty fifth and sixth graders, matched on sex and measures of test anxiety, defensiveness, and IQ, were divided into two groups, each of which solved Porteus maze tasks and a marble puzzle, with and without memory support, respectively. An anxiety-by-memory support interaction occurred in the number of errors made prior to solving the marble…

The relative effectiveness of two methods of instruction for teaching 5th and 6th grade students to separate variables in science activities isinvest gated. Randomly selected students from a particular school were test d until 27 who were unable to separate variables had been identified. These students were randomly assigned to three groups.…

The present study attempts to find the variables in the fifth grade which discriminate between dropouts and non-dropouts and to test the hypothesis that data about a student's school achievement from the fifth to seventh grades will yield a significant increase in predictable variance. This study makes use of a data bank, collected especially for…

The heavily illustrated handbook provides a collection of informally organized career education instructional materials for grades four and five. Some of the topics stressed include: self-concept, career awareness, and career exploration. The instructional materials are varied and include worksheets, learning activities, games, experiments,…

One of the major steps in the project entitled "A Structure of Concept Attainment Abilities" is to identify reference tests for cognitive abilities. A part of this task involved the construction of some of these types of tests for use with fourth and fifth grade students. This paper presents 35 tests that were constructed or adapted for inclusion…

An experimental program designed to develop oral language (English) was started in the San Antonio Independent School District in 1964 and included 28 first grade classrooms of culturally deprived urban Spanish-speaking children. Classrooms were designated as Oral-Aural English, with intensive English one hour daily; Oral-Aural Spanish, with…

Designed to enrich the reading program, this bibliography lists books, films, filmstrips, and records for fifth-grade children. The list, which is divided according to readability into easy, average, and difficult, is prepared from the suggested lists of the Ginn, Houghton Mifflin, Lippincott, and Scott, Foresman reading series. The bibliography…

The development of pupil behavior in the process of creative problem solving was investigated. A battery of pretests and post-tests (including written compositions, oral compositions, and open stories) was developed and administered as part of a program to develop cognitive skills. Treatment groups received instruction for 30, 60, or 90 minutes…

This study had as its purpose the investigation of visual-verbal presentation modes when used for instruction in different types of learning tasks with learners of differing mental abilities. Five parallel experiments were conducted, each for a different learning objective or task (identification, comparison, classification, generalization,…

Investigated was the relationship between teacher and student performance on selected mathematical tasks. A measure of teacher effectiveness was obtained by comparing teacher and student performance on identical geometric tasks. The sample for this study consisted of teachers and their students from 19 fifth-grade classes, designated as either…

This study initiated in 1950, tested two hypotheses: (1) that as elementary school children progress through school their concepts of terms and principles in science become more correct, and (2) that elementary school children in 1964 would be more correct in their concepts of scientific terms and principles than similar children were in 1950. An…

These materials were written with the aim of reflecting the thinking of Cambridge Conference on School Mathematics (CCSM) regarding the goals and objectives for school mathematics. Presented are plans for teaching 23 probability lessons in the elementary grades at Hancock School, Lexington, Massachusetts. The discovery approach was utilized by the…