Three valuable approaches to utilize in improving the social studies curriculum may be to develop resource units, teaching units, and lesson plans. Resource units contain a collection of more objectives, learning activities, evaluation techniques, and bibliographical entries than can possibly be used by a given teacher for a particular classroom…

Primary sources can be very important in the teaching of history, as they expose students to historical concepts in ways that books and articles cannot. Primary sources, such as historical documents, capture the interest of students and personalize and humanize history for the student. Use of such sources also helps the students develop important…

This high school unit of study on India's Mahatma Gandhi is designed to be used in courses of contemporary problems, government, and 20th century history. The unit contains a listing of the course objectives, needed resource materials, teaching strategies, and evaluation procedures. The course is taught over a 9-day period, and brief lesson plans…

This volume contains 35 lessons designed to be used in secondary science classes to introduce the science/technology/society (STS) themes and issues. While the first 11 lessons focus on general STS themes, the other 24 lessons cover specific STS issues that fall under such categories as population growth, water resources, world hunger, food…

This document, which primarily contains statistical tables of data, is designed to help teach secondary school students how to compare the power levels of 186 countries. The three indicators or measures of economic strength include a country's total population, total area, and per capita income, and they are used to determine power levels. A…

Designed for a food service managerial workshop, the trainer's guide is organized into four separate units: personnel management, menu planning, food purchasing, and food service operations. Performance objectives to be met on completion of the workshop include: improving personnel operations for a camp's food service; demonstrating knowledge of…

This guidebook presents an overview of the Youth Advocacy Training Resource materials developed by the Teacher Corps to provide flexible training materials to assist Teacher Corps grantees to serve troubled youth. The primary target population for these materials are those Teacher Corps educational personnel who are concerned with the education of…

This module is one of five modules on length, area, volume and capacity, mass, and temperature, developed for the use of teachers and teacher-trainer team leaders. Primary and intermediate activities in this booklet concentrate on the concept of temperature with emphasis on metric measurement. The objectives and needed materials for each activity…

A REPORT OF THE 10TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE GUIDE TO EDUCATE SEVENTH GRADERS ABOUT RUSSIA INCLUDED THE HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, CULTURE, IDEOLOGY, AND AIMS OF THE U.S.S.R. OPPORTUNITIES TO STUDY ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND TO USE THE INDUCTIVE METHOD WERE SUGGESTED. A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE AND SUMMARIES OF EVENTS IN RUSSIAN HISTORY WERE…

The booklet suggests 32 classroom and teaching activities for intermediate teachers, grades 4-6, in the four areas of nutrition, physical health, mental health, and developmental skills. The project was developed to show how nutritionists, physical and mental health workers, and learning specialists could assist children and classroom teachers in…

The module is designed to give students a comprehensive picture of housing and how to get dollar value when in the housing marketplace. Further, the module acquaints students with the work that Federal, State, and local government is doing in the housing field and how they and their families can benefit from government help. As a result of using…

Alcohol--its use and abuse--is presented in this resource unit for grades four, five, and six. One of three units on alcohol, smoking, and drugs, this guide for teachers outlines information about the history of alcohol; types of alcohol and alcoholic beverages; physiological, psychological, and socio-economic effects of alcohol on people; and…

The "Native American Professional Resource Directory" contains 1,076 Indian individuals representing various tribes and academic degree backgrounds. The directory is divided into three major categories: (1) academic degree index, (2) individual information index, and (3) tribal index. Criteria for selection are: (1) Native Americans of Indian or…

The document reports on an extension course taken in the spring of 1970 by public school teachers in the Columbia Heights Public School System via the University of Minnesota. The course, on American Indian education, included the usual on-campus requirements, as well as several lectures by guest Indians. Additionally, each teacher who enrolled in…

Local history as source material for environmental education is uniquely portrayed in this resource kit. Utilizing a Winona County Historical Society publication, "The Beaver Story" and accompanied by a teacher's guide, "The Buried Town of Beaver," and other teaching aids, a case study of the area can be developed. Based on the reminiscences of…