This manual is intended for use by adopters or adapters of a media-oriented arts and humanities program designed to train teachers in the techniques of humanizing the general curriculum. It contains lesson plans for grades four through six organized into the following categories: art, creative dramatics, film, movement, music, and poetry. Each…

Written for use with students in grades nine through twelve, this handbook links natural ecological issues with language arts instruction. It contains a series of lesson plans, each offering a number of suggested learning activities for use both in and out of class. The lessons are built around 12 major environmental concepts that form a framework…

This bulletin on undergraduate public policy programs includes an article on public policy studies as liberal education by Joel L. Fleishman, and descriptions of the following college programs: public policy analysis at the University of North Carolina, public service studies program at Oberlin College, urban and metropolitan studies major at…

A project was conducted to provide teachers with training in the development of interdisciplinary, competency-based consumers' education for secondary students located in rural, urban, and suburban settings. One of the outcomes of the project was the development of a "Guide for Implementation of Consumers' Education in Rural, Suburban, and Urban…

The document reports on the Communitization Integration Team, a joint interagency planning project whose major goal was to develop, within a two county area, models for the cooperative delivery of community based services to school age developmentally disabled children, particularly the severely-profoundly retarded. Initial sections cover project…

This collection of 21 teaching units is designed for use in energy education within various disciplines of the secondary curriculum. Each unit is designed to stand alone. Suggested teaching times range from five to fifteen days. No particular order of presentation is implied. Each unit is organized as follows: abstract, recommended level, time…

This curriculum guide contains three sections: introduction, curriculum material, and an annotated bibliography. Introductory information provides an overview of the clothing/apparel and accessories merchandising area, aptitudes needed, and career opportunities; discusses potential career ladders, which are divided into entry level, middle…

Prepared as the result of a revision of the vocational education curricula by members of the Western State Curriculum Council (American Samoa, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, and the Trust Territories of the Pacific), this guide is intended to help meet the needs of both students and a highly technical and rapidly changing society. It…

This text presents lessons in urban culture. Lesson materials deal with urban areas in various parts of the world and present concepts in various formats including readings, exercises, photo and graphic displays, and tables. Although not specifically limited to health topics, the lessons contribute to the context of the biomedical…

The author suggests ways reading can be integrated with science and describes the reading activities in an elementary science methods course. The activities include: (1) selecting a science tradebook for children to review and for the teacher to analyze vocabulary; (2) helping children review science tradebooks; and (3) encouraging independent…

This report describes a biology course designed to be offered to first-year students at the University of New South Wales in Australia. It also covers the planning, development and implementation of the course as well as its evaluation over a three year period (1974-1976). The publication consists of six major sections: (1) introduction, which…

This guide is designed to help elementary and secondary school teachers and curriculum developers plan units on the future. It is presented in five sections. Section I discusses the origins of the modern futures movement and the concepts of future studies, time dimensions, global approach, self-fulfilling and self-defeating forecasts, and types of…

This unit presents the teacher with guidelines and suggestions for a field trip to a shore. It contains information about what organisms and habitat to expect and appropriate activities. Also suggested are discussions of the people who live and work near the shore. A pre-trip planning section is presented. Sections relating to each of several…

The report describes the Western Illinois University 0-6 Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Handicapped Personnel Training Project (WIU 0-6 Project)--a model project designed to demonstrate innovative methods to fill personnel needs for early childhood handicapped programs. The project is a 2 semester program to train professional educators in the…

A psychoanalyst, a psychiatrist, a psychopathologist, and a biometrician debate the classification of behavior disorders by each presenting one paper and discussing another. Aspects discussed are the historical review of classification of behavior disorders and one current perspective; a cross-cultural approach to psychopathology and its…