THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS ARE BEING DEVELOPED FOR THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY THROUGH EXPANDING OPPORTUNITES. INSERVICE TRAINING COURSES ARE DESIGNED TO IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF DISADVANTAGED GROUPS AND TO INCREASE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THEIR TEACHING PROGRAMS. TRAINING IS OFFERED IN LABORATORY SCHOOLS TO TEST NEW MATERIALS AND…

This instructional package suggests objectives, activities, and evaluation methods for use in an elementary school minicourse on energy. Objectives are to help students become aware of the present energy situation and to make more intelligent energy-related decisions in the future. Activities involve language arts, science, math, social studies,…

This paper describes the social context for and the provision of child care services in Scandinavia. Particular emphasis is given to Denmark and Sweden. Occasionally, comparisons are made in the paper between Scandinavian countries and the United States, and differing attitudes toward the poor are pointed out. In the Scandinavian countries…

This three-part curriculum for entrepreneurship education is primarily for postsecondary level, including four-year colleges and adult education, but it can be adapted for special groups or vocational teacher education. The emphasis of the seven instructional units in Part II is on establishing a business. Unit B focuses on choosing a business…

This three-part curriculum for entrepreneurship education is primarily for postsecondary level, including four-year colleges and adult education, but it can be adapted for special groups or vocational teacher education. The emphasis of the seven instructional units in Part II is establishing a business. Unit F focuses on financing the business. It…

This three-part curriculum for entrepreneurship education is primarily for postsecondary level, including four-year colleges and adult education, but it can be adapted for special groups or vocational teacher education. The emphasis of the eight instructional units in Part III is operating a business. Unit D focuses on market management. It…

This module on the sun oscilloscope is the sixth of six (CE 028 296-301) in the auto mechanics course of a bilingual skills training program. (A Vocabulary Development Workbook is available as CE 028 294.) The course is designed to furnish theoretical and laboratory experience. Module objectives are for students to develop trade-related…

Consisting of four scholarly papers which have been edited for easier reading, this book considers the issue of tribal sovereignty from before the white man's arrival on this continent to the present day. The focus of the first paper is primarily cultural; the next three papers deal with the sequence of events. Dr. Fay G. Cohen's paper describes…

This supplement to the California Business Education Program Guide for Office and Distributive Occupations is designed to assist office education teachers of secondary, postsecondary, and adult students to update their business education curricula in light of new technology and increasing demand for skilled office workers. Focusing on medical…

This secondary unit of instruction on written communications is one of sixteen Common Core Units in Business Education (CCUBE). The units were designed to implement the sixteen common core competencies identified in the California Business Education Program Guide for Office and Distributive Education. Each competency-based unit is designed to…

Designed for high risk children with learning needs in the development of academic, social, physical, or conceptual skills, this manual identifies and presents, in a developmental sequence, a preschool program for disadvantaged and migrant five-year-old children. The program's fundamental goal is to prepare each disadvantaged and/or migrant…

This document suggests learning activities, teaching methods, objectives, and evaluation measures for a second grade consumer education unit on quarters. The unit, which requires approximately six hours of class time, reinforces basic social studies and mathematics skills including following sequences of numbers, distinguishing left from right,…

About 3,000 students in grades 3, 7, and 11 were assessed for fitness, motor ability, knowledge and understanding of physical activity, and participation and attitudes toward physical acitivity. Over 2,200 physical education teachers and 1,300 administrators completed questionnaires on instructional practices and program assessment. Results…

Operation Shadow provides materials for a career education program which gives students ages 11-13 an opportunity to relate school subjects to the world of work. Students spend one month in classroom activities, including study of characteristics of self and others and how these characteristics and interests affect one's choice of a life career.…

Seventeen articles about environmental education teaching in Britain are contained in this publication. Several case studies describe interdisciplinary approaches which are potential growing points for curriculum development. The book is arranged in three sections. After defining environmental education, the first section reviews objectives for…