This year, 1992, marks the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas. Much discussion, debate, and celebration of the historical significance of the quincentenary will occur. This directory of events, contacts, and activities pertaining to the quincentenary seeks to foster these various endeavors. Among the subjects…

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC) helps teachers by offering a broad assortment of services to enable them to quickly locate educational resources. This document is one in a series of print catalogs designed to give educators information about curriculum resources available for teaching math and…

Technological resources abound for teachers of all subject areas, but for many reasons, such instructional technology seems to lend itself well to the social studies including economics. To help teachers efficiently use the latest economics resources available on the World Wide Web, this Digest identifies four sites that offer knowledge of…

This guide is aimed at educators, students, and other information users and lists free or low cost energy education materials. Each entry includes the address, telephone number, internet address, e-mail address, description of the providing organization, and a synopsis of the item available. The organizations represented take policy positions on…

Information about 191 art education organizations is provided in this guide. The entries are arranged in six sections: State Arts Agencies, State Departments of Education, State Arts Education Alliances, National Arts Education Associations, National Arts Service Organizations, and National Education Associations. Each entry includes the…

Based on educational administration textbooks and on thesauri and dictionaries published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Bureau of Education (IBE), and other institutions, this document presents a trilingual (English, French, and Spanish) glossary of approximately 2,500 terms or…

Contains a selected, annotated bibliography of resources on adolescent literature useful to English and reading teachers. (RB)

An exploration of the educational value of the American slave narrative, offering suggestions as to how these materials can be integrated with a variety of classroom activities--music, art, writing, debate, dramatization and dance. (EH)

A listing of the various organizations involved in the improvement of women's studies and education offers services, addresses, and materials available for a classroom teacher. (JR)

This curriculum guide is an interdisciplinary approach designed to reduce childhood accidental injuries on the playground. Materials are designed to provide background information and teaching resources for teachers that will be useable in a wide variety of environments. The first chapter provides a general background on playground hazards and…

This annotated bibliography contains resources for teachers to use in the preparation of curricula for death education for children in grades K-12. Section one contains printed resources for teachers. Many of these resources offer more comprehensive guides for death education and materials. Section two describes 70 books for students in grade K-12…

This book introduces three major orientations to curriculum--the transmission, transaction, and transformation positions--and examines the philosophical, psychological, and social/economic foundations on which they are based. Part one of the text describes these three orientations in detail and shows how they can be used as helpful tools in…

A comprehensive bibliography of publications on the subject of death education is presented. Listed items represent only those published over the past 8 years. The listing is divided into articles and books which have focused on various dimensions of dying and death and those which deal exclusively with suicide and life-threatening behavior. Only…