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…

This teachers' resource guide contains four sections in addition to an introduction. The first section is an interdisciplinary look at the major natural areas in and around Albuquerque. This is followed by a review of the city's cultural history and a glimpse into the interactions people of Albuquerque have had with their natural environment. The…

This publication is part of a series of instructional units produced by NSTA's Project for an Energy-Enriched Curriculum. This unit presents the variety of transportation modes and tries to assist students in understanding the effects of transportation on their world. The main concern of the unit is with fossil fuel consumption. The seven…

Selected from the National Instructional Materials Information System (NIMIS)--a computer based on-line interactive retrieval system on special education materials--the bibliography covers 36 kits, auditory visual materials, activity books, and resource guides for teaching severely or profoundly mentally handicapped students. A variety of…

A curriculum unit for secondary school students presents American history from the time of the initial settlements through the Revolutionary War. There are four chapters: the English colonists, the English heritage, the conflicts between England and the colonies, and the war for independence. Each chapter contains a summary reading, several…

This module was prepared to "metricate" approximately 3800 teachers in Western Kentucky. A brief history of measurement systems is followed by sections concerning length, mass (weight), temperature, and area and volume measurement. Each section contains a list of the common metric units used and their relationship as well as activities…

The unit approach to instruction in the kindergarten and primary grades is considered as an example of learning by doing. In guiding a unit, the teacher must have thorough basic plans but must be willing to let the students substitute their ideas for hers. Part of the purpose of unit work is to let children discover for themselves what process is…

This volume is a collection of materials used to conduct activities in the sessions of the 1971 Annual Convention of the National Council for Geographic Education. Seventy-nine geography activity units and strategies focus on six topics: 1) The Transportation Maze: Passages and Portals; 2) Economic Development: The Quest for Material Well-Being;…

The article describes the development of a unit for deaf children using a hands-on media approach to facilitate the acquisition of various English language structures and to initiate the development of predicting meaningful language, given a visual stimulus. (SBH)

A classroom activity is illustrated in which vectors are drawn in the first quadrant of a rectangular coordinate system forming a vector polygon which is then reflected about each axis. (MN)

Projects that involve counting real things either from 1 to 100 or from 1 to 1000 are presented. The projects encourage children's guessing, ordering numbers, recording results in a variety of ways, counting elements of a subset as well as the entire set, and some problem solving. (MN)

An exercise is presented for the purpose of understanding and determining area which involves using a balance as opposed to algorithms or computation. (MN)

The authors propose that electronic calculators can be perceived as function generators rather than mere computational aids and can be used to investigate function concepts such as domain, range, composition, inverse, correspondence and so on. (MN)

This step-by-step guide for children provides a collection of over 150 recipes for breakfasts, lunches, salads, dinners, snacks, and desserts, with an emphasis on safety and creativity. The first chapter gives information concerning kitchen safety, utensils, term definitions, measuring equivalents, cleanup tips and other useful instructions. The…

Describes a high school astronomy course oriented around activities and designed to be fun-centered.'' The course is presented in packet form in order to keep the units of study short and comprehensible. Modular scheduling systems and field work are utilized to stress the activities approach. (JR)