This document outlines the rationale and content of the grade 1 social studies curriculum of the Lebanon School District, Lebanon, New Hampshire. The children are asked to compare their families with the family of the Eskimo. During the study of the Eskimo, geographic understanding is stressed. Skills to be acquired are listed as behavioral…

This document outlines the content of the grade 5 social studies curriculum of the Lebanon School District, Lebanon, New Hampshire. The program focuses on a U. S. history from the first Americans to the post-Civil War era. U. S. geography is studied, either Americans to the post-Civil War era. U.S. geography is studied, either as a separate unit…

This document outlines the content of the grade 6 social studies curriculum of the Lebanon School District, Lebanon, New Hampshire. The program is essentially a chronological review of western civilization, which includes pre-historic man, early civilization, classical civilizations of Greece and Rome, Medieval period, and the Age of Expansion.…

This resource notebook contains lesson plans for use in providing career education to students in grades 6, 7, and 8. Lessons plans are organized into sections addressing the following subject areas: language arts and foreign language, reading, mathematics, science, social studies, health and physical education, special education, and fine arts…

The second in a set of five publications on the educational "ministry," this document is a plan book intended to help Catholic school teachers in their dual role of educating students in academic matters and increasing students' faith in the Catholic doctrine. A brief paper, "The Teacher as Minister," by Dr. Elinor Ford, is presented that claims…

The package presents a training approach for increasing test-taking skills of learning disabled (LD) and behaviorally disordered (BD) children along with a research study illustrating the approach's effectiveness with 92 LD or BD elementary students. The approach focuses on such strategies as attending to appropriate stimuli, marking answers…

Eight lessons on integrated global economics provide detailed instructional materials on world food and energy systems, international cartels, and the nature and process of foreign investments. The materials are designed to help high school social studies teachers develop student understanding of key economic systems and activities and reinforce…

Phase 1 of a 2-phase project consisted of a series of 9 workshops designed to help teachers use the communicative approach to second language teaching in planning lessons. The workshops in turn resulted in a collection of 118 teacher-developed communicative activities and lesson plans in these categories: (1) developing communicative skills in the…

Classroom lessons have a specific structure which guides patterns of interaction between teachers and students. The formal structure of the lesson is contrasted to the less formal structure of transitions: the times between the lessons. The informal structure of transitions allows an opportunity for different types of interaction which are…

Designed as thematic units around Wright Company Big Books, the lessons in this guide demonstrate ways that Big Books can be used in a whole language first grade program. Each lesson indicates skill focus, needed materials, procedures, and additional thoughts or suggestions about the lesson. Units consist of: "Bedtime" (five lessons);…

This collection of lessons and teaching suggestions is designed to aid local school lunch managers in fulfilling compliance with the requirement that school lunch programs and personnel participate in nutrition education. Provided in the first section of the booklet are general instructions for using the booklet, a guide to lesson plans for…

This teaching guide is based on Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" and is intended for use with Haitian migrant workers. The first chapter enunciates the general principles of foreign language teaching; chapters 2-5 illustrate actual use of the principles of control, sequence, reinforcement, and total physical response. Chapters…

This booklet consists of six sample lessons integrating population education into science instruction. It is one of four in a series. Materials differ from those in an earlier series (1980) in that lessons are presented at the secondary level only; there is no duplication of lessons from the earlier series in terms of content and teaching…

This handbook designed for teachers of sixth through ninth grades, has two objectives: (1) to make the concept of critical thinking and the principles that underlie it clear; and (2) to show how critical thinking can be taught in language arts, social studies, and science. The introduction presents the reader with the concepts of critical thinking…

This document describes changes in language arts instruction that are designed to recognize the unique strengths and abilities of Chapter 1 and migrant education students. The document also describes a particular vision of a new language arts program for these students, a program designed to teach to their strengths and provide them with…