E-learning has the potential to offer significant advantages over traditional classroom learning. However, it requires a complete redefinition of the dynamics of interaction between the various actors of a classroom. Moreover, in this context, the authoring of instructional material requires much more time than in traditional learning. Therefore,…

This volume contains 36 lessons designed to be used in secondary social studies classes to introduce the science/technology/society (STS) themes and issues. While the first 11 lessons focus on general STS themes, the other 25 lessons cover specific STS issues that fall under such categories as population growth, water resources, world hunger, food…

The combination of goals, concepts, generalizations, objectives, skills, attitudes, activities, teaching methods, and evaluation procedures into a long-term plan for dealing with a specific topic has generally been called a "unit plan." The child-centered approach to developing such a unit plan contains four stages; these are to (1) determine the…

THE COURSES ARE DESIGNED TO AFFORD A MEANINGFUL SET OF EXPERIENCES RELATED TO THE ABILITIES AND INTERESTS OF THE NON-COLLEGE-ORIENTED HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS. CENTRAL CONCEPTS ARE POINTS OF EMPHASIS. CONTENT IS ORGANIZED AROUND A NUMBER OF KEY IDEAS, WITH AN INDICATION OF RELATED ILLUSTRATIVE DATA. AMERICAN HISTORY IS ORGANIZED INTO FOUR UNITS. THE…

RESOURCE MATERIALS TO BE USED IN CONJUCTION WITH THE GRADE 10 BIOLOGY I COURSE OUTLINE FOR THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ARE PRESENTED. A GREATER AMOUNT OF MATERIAL IS INCLUDED THAN COULD BE USED IN THE ALLOTED TIME FOR THE COURSE. THE TEACHERS CAN USE THEIR OWN DISCRETION IN CHOOSING THE MATERIALS TO BE COVERED, AND THEY CAN ADAPT THESE MATERIALS TO THE…

The instructional package was developed to provide the distributive education teacher-coordinator with visual materials that can be used to supplement existing textbook offerings in the area of display (visual merchandising). Designed for use with 35mm slides of retail store displays, the package allows the student to view the slides of displays…

Since environmental problems are becoming increasingly important as political issues, these resource units serve as a base for the study of political and legal influences on environmental control. Inquiry questions and learning activities are designed to gain an understanding of: (1) the forces that give impetus to present environmental law, (2)…

Describes the functions and functioning of a school-based language resources unit which is used to store books and nonbook material, to act as a teaching device, and to serve as a curriculum generator. (JM)

This unit on fire safety teaches students how to act in or during a fire and presents fire prevention measures that students can implement at home. Two reproducible masters concerning fire safety and prevention are presented along with class activities, student reading resources, and organizations and companies that offer classroom materials about…

These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference on Mobile Learning 2013, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, in Lisbon, Portugal, March 14-16, 2013. The Mobile Learning 2013 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of…

Ideally, learning resources should be built over a shared pool of fine reusable granular learning objects. However, in order to avoid contextual lacks, dynamic creation of such resources would mostly rely on the conceptual relationships among learning objects inside a repository. These conceptual relationships, as well as the learning objects…

Learning object repositories and evaluation tools have the potential to serve as sites for interaction among different cultures and communities of practice. This article outlines Web-based learning object evaluation tools that we have developed, describes our current efforts to extend those tools to a wider range of user communities, and considers…

Many children with communication impairments whose educational needs cannot be met in mainstream classrooms receive additional resource support in classroom units that specialise in the coordination and provision of academic teaching and speech language therapy in the UK. This study estimated the prevalence of Specific Language Impairment (SLI)…

A RESOURCE UNIT FOR TEACHERS IS PRESENTED. IT AIMS AT EXPLAINING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF A CITIZEN, DEVELOPING THE PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS OF DEMOCRACY, AND DEVELOPING THE ABILITY TO THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT QUESTIONS OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. SUGGESTED METHODS FOR TEACHING THE UNIT INVOLVED--THE USE OF CASE STUDIES, MASS MEDIA…

This booklet is part of a series on health instruction developed by the Publications Commission of the School Health Division of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. An aid to teachers, it describes the proper role of sex education in the classroom. The specific aims and objective of sex education for grade…