The monograph is intended to demonstrate how the production of a slidetape show can become a multidisciplinary exercise that helps students become creative users of information, rather than passive receivers of information. Career education and audiovisual media instruction are both cross-disciplinary in nature and can be infused into existing…

This series of five environmental education units is designed for use in grades 1-5. The units are designed around the concepts of survival, interdependence, scarcity, recyclement, rights vs. responsibility, planning, valuing, social forces, and optimism. Each unit is further developed around environmental generalizations (subconcepts),…

This interdisciplinary social studies unit is designed for use in the eighth grade. The unit is developed around three themes: Habitation Patterns, Economic and Technological Development, and Changing Role of Government. Habitation Patterns encompasses the generalization that change is often the result of many forces. The history and growth of the…

The successful integration of ecology and social studies in this sixth grade program offers students a chance to become aware of themselves and their immediate surroundings, both in the classroom and in the community. This model and the suggested learning activities can be successfully adapted for use at any of the other elementary levels.…

This report summarizes chronologically a three-year ESEA Title III project to study the types of schools needed for the future. The major recommendation of the study was that an educational park should be established in the downtown area to provide enriched opportunities for pupils from widely different backgrounds and to serve as an experimental…

These preliminary materials for teachers of Spanish-speaking or nonstandard English-speaking migrant children are prepared in answer to a need felt by the Michigan Migrant Primary Interdisciplinary Project for additional oral language material on the upper elementary level. The linguistic content of these materials, designed to provide tools for…

This volume contains the papers presented at the conference in edited versions along with certain reference materials. As they influenced the proceedings of the task groups, these papers are reflected in the contents of Volume I (SO 000 819). As a group they offer many useful ideas concerning the theory and methodology of family intervention and…

Problems of vocational education programs are discussed beginning with legislation affecting the handicapped. Provisions considered are Titles I and III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the Vocational Education Act of 1963, and the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968. The number of handicapped children served and the…

Six articles on the problems in planning and executing a high school humanities program are collected here. Wallace Kennedy gives a partial listing of Minnesota teachers and schools that offer humanities in grades 11 and 12. Fred E. H. Schroeder takes up the problems of defining "humanities," selecting good teachers, preparing an interdisciplinary…

Teacher educators need to plan instruction with behavioral objectives; their selection of lesson content, teaching strategies, and student evaluation criteria should be consistent with these objectives. In the Florida State University model program, trainees are expected to reach the above goals by progressing at individual rates through…

The document is an outline of a one-year correspondence course in American History for students at the secondary and college levels. The course objective is to provide the students with a picture of America's people during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the use of literature. The student is required to read a certain…

This sixth grade resource unit focuses on Middle East culture as seen through five areas of the social sciences: anthropology-sociology, geography, history, economics, and political science. Among objectives that the student is expected to achieve are the following: 1) given general information on the Middle East through the use of film, visuals,…

The idea of computerized car pooling originated in an American Contemporary Issues class at George Washington High School in Denver, Colorado, in the fall of 1973 when a fuel shortage was imminent. The students saw car pooling as a way to take effective action and, with the expertise of a computer math class, devised a program capable of…

The staff of a heart and circulatory disease program of a State department of health conducted a special project at a city hospital which showed that a well-organized treatment and education program for patients with congestive heart failure increased the patient's knowledge of his disease, medication, and diet as well as his adherence to a…

This paper, second in a series which deals with trends in the precollegiate teaching of the various social science disciplines, discusses the status of political science instruction in American secondary schools. Primary objectives of political education courses include such goals as training for citizenship, participation in, and understanding of…