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Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. Office of Instructional Services. – 1980
This guide was developed to accompany fifteen locally produced health education films. The series served as a resource for a statewide instructional program called "Patterns of Health." This part of the program provides students in grades 7 and 8 the opportunity to discuss sensitive issues. The following subjects are dealt with: family…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Drug Education, Grade 7, Grade 8
Silvestro, John R. – 1978
The efficacy of second dentition, the number of erupted teeth, as an index in assessing school readiness was examined. A series of cognitive, achievement, and social-emotional instruments were administered to a group of 41 first- and 43 second-grade children. The tests used in this study were: Devereux Elementary School Behavior Rating Scale,…
Descriptors: Age, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Dental Evaluation
Geddes, Dolores M.; Summerfield, Liane – 1978
The resource guide on physical education and recreation for the multiply handicapped contains 161 bibliographic references, descriptions of 35 audio visual aids, and listings of other resources. Divided into sections for the cerebral palsied, deaf-blind, multiply handicapped blind, multiply handicapped deaf, and other handicapping conditions, the…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Audiovisual Aids, Blindness
Westin-Lindgren, Gunilla – 1979
From 1964-71, 323 pairs of twins and 740 age-matched controls born in 1954-55, were investigated. Compared to schoolchildren in 1880 and 1940 the children in the present study were taller, reached maturity earlier and passed through puberty faster. No differences between socioeconomic strata defined by father's occupation and family income were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Body Height, Body Weight, Cognitive Ability
TRIMBLE, W.E.; UNTERSEHER, RICHARD – 1967
A STRUCTURED PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM CONSISTING MOSTLY OF BODY BUILDING EXERCISES AND WEIGHT LIFTING WAS USED TO GIVE PHYSICALLY UNDERDEVELOPED BOYS A SENSE OF PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BOYS FROM GRADES SEVEN, EIGHT, AND NINE, CLASSIFIED ON THE BASIS OF LACK OF ATHLETIC ABILITY, WERE GIVEN THE CALIFORNIA PSYCHOLOGICAL…
Descriptors: Athletics, Control Groups, Discriminant Analysis, Junior High School Students
KERSHNER, JOHN R. – 1967
THIS STUDY USED TWO INTACT CLASSES OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TRAINABLE MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES DERIVED FROM THE DOMAN-DELACATO THEORY OF PHYSICAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT. THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP CONSISTED OF SEVEN MALES AND SIX FEMALES FROM AGE 8 TO 18 AND THE CONTROL GROUP CONSISTED OF 10 MALES AND SIX…
Descriptors: Children, Exceptional Child Research, Experimental Programs, Intellectual Development
Gatewood, Thomas E.; Dilg, Charles A. – 1975
This position paper identifies the purposes and underlying rationale of the middle school, outlines what the middle school program should be--curricular, instructional, and organizational-administrative, and presents some leadership implications. It is assumed that if educators understand the root causes of transescent behavior, they will deal…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Design
Kern County Superintendent of Schools, Bakersfield, CA. – 1970
Presented is a curriculum guide for educable mentally retarded pupils in grades seven through twelve. Summarized are objectives for the junior high level (including personal and social adjustment) and the senior high level (such as recreational and leisure time skills). Goals, activities, and suggested topics for experience units are listed for…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Curriculum Guides, Exceptional Child Education, Health
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Div. of Special Education. – 1967
Presented is a curriculum guide for elementary and secondary level trainable mentally retarded students. Objectives and illustrative behaviors are provided for the following aspects of personal development: self-awareness and self-concept, self-help independence, physical development (including body image and motor skills), music, and art. Among…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Art, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education
Van Osdol, Bob M.; Geiger, Leonard J. – 1975
A perceptual motor approach to learning phonics is presented in this teaching guide which includes a screening test and 50 learning games encompassing a wide array of phonics skills. Directionality, gross-motor skills, sensory-motor skills, and auditory and visual perceptual skills may be introduced to the children and taught during the games…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Educational Games, Elementary Education
Young, Harben Boutourline – 1973
This interim report of the Yale Project describes the progress made on the nutrition and growth study of Tunisian children from September 1, 1972 through February 28, 1973. A major part of the report is devoted to the organizational and data collection problems of the longitudinal study, discussed under the following categories: biomedics,…
Descriptors: Children, Cross Sectional Studies, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Nelson, Monte; Pyfer, Jean L. – 1973
Contemporary theories of perceptual-motor development and dysfunction are analyzed in detail in this review of the literature. Studies focused on observation of delays, deviations, cause, theories of development, and programs of remediation. It is suggested that it may be presumptuous for theorists to delineate three, four, or ten characteristics…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology
Beers, Carol; And Others – 1974
The perceptual motor development module, the eleventh in a series developed for the Early Childhood-Special Education Teacher Preparation Program at the University of Virginia, provides the student with basic information on the physiological development of young children. A number of learning and measurement activities related to children's…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Teacher Education, Early Childhood Education, Measurement Techniques
Rigby, Mary E.; Woodcock, Charles C. – 1969
A continuation of a report (EC 004 818) presents appended case studies of 15 children involved in a residential school program for the multiply handicapped blind. Each study provides information and developmental history, medical data, personal hygiene, eating habits, physical development, psychological adjustment, object recognition, classroom…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Case Studies, Eating Habits
Dauer, Victor P. – 1972
A major purpose of this text is to present a broad program of varied and vigorous physical education activities for the preschool and early primary school child. The text also includes chapters dealing with equipment, effective teaching, effective class management, lesson planning, and movement education. (CS)
Descriptors: Athletic Equipment, Athletics, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques