This packet of materials is designed to provide the vocational teacher with everything necessary to train advisory council members to interview in the school community. It also contains complete information on the teacher's role in the project and teacher instructions for using each item. Contents include instructions and lesson plan for advisory…

This handbook contains learning activities on political participation for use in secondary level American government or civics courses. It is designed to orient students and teachers to politics and the political process, to be successful at political endeavors, and to become involved in political activity within the school and local community.…

This guide, part 1 of a two-part publication, contains resource units on Chinese history and culture which can be used with 9th-grade students. The materials and activities, gathered by American secondary-school teachers who visited China in 1973, are intended to provide a pattern for an elective course or supplementary material for regular social…

Project Positive Attitude Toward Learning (PATL) grew out of an identified need by the Bethalto Community Unit No. 8 schools to improve student self-concept and attitudes toward school. The basic approach used in project PATL is to change teacher behavior which, in turn, causes change to take place in student behavior. The mechanism for affecting…

To help preservice and inservice social studies teachers develop systematic ways of integrating skills and content, this manual offers a model and simple instructional exercises for the diagnostic teaching of how to investigate a cartoon. Designed mainly for use with children in grades 4-6, the material is adaptable for use at other grade levels.…

Guidelines are provided in this handbook for secondary level teachers on how to develop and use case studies in their social studies and economics classes. Among the contents are the following: (1) a description of the case study method and its educational goals; (2) the act of case discussion; (3) questioning techniques to use and sample…

This study investigates the cognitive nature of teacher-pupil questions in "process oriented" and "content oriented" secondary social studies programs. Subjects were five classes selected from a program viewed by both teachers and pupils as process-oriented; five from a program viewed by both teachers and pupils as content…

Project IMPACT is a locally-initiated, federally-funded attempt to encourage creativity in elementary and secondary classrooms. From a start with nine school districts, it had been extended by its third year to nearly 60 school districts in nine counties. This report covers a one-year inservice program culminating in a 5-week teach-and-study…

The resource handbook contains ideas, suggestions, and resource materials for teaching about the state and local government of Oregon to students at the elementary and secondary grade levels. The guide's major objective is to assure that new voters will graduate with the necessary skills and knowledge to be confident and active participants in…

This final evaluation measures the effects of an intensive staff development program in building and applying strategies to develop initial cognitive skills (BASICS) in children. Volunteer teachers from school districts in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and Milan and their students in grades K-2 participated in the project. The main concept providing…

The purpose of this manuscript is to encourage the development of the communication skills of preschool children by introducing their parents to a number of learning activities suitable for implementation in the home. It is written to be used by an instructor who is working with preschool parents. The activities, which are designed to be…

Fourteen brief reading selections from philosophical statements of ancient and modern writers are presented with brief introductions, questions, and individual and group exercises. The purpose of the collection is to stimulate students toward philosophical, thought and discussion based on alternatives. Readings are drawn from: 1) Plato's, Parable…

The 50 articles in this anthology were drawn from the Elementary Education Supplement of Social Education. The collection of articles is aimed at teachers, and its purpose is to provide inspiration and worthwhile suggestions for upgrading social studies instruction in the elementary school. The articles for this anthology were selected by a team…

CATTS is a computerized service providing question-answer exercises from a subject content file for specific courses, building successive lessons from the file based on each student's immediately previous performance. The text of the file may correlate with textbooks, diagrams, workbooks and supplementary material. Student files include subject,…

This guide describes activities, methods, and materials which can be used in conducting a beginning-level social-science research project. Designed for secondary and college students as a laboratory component of a social studies or social science course, it provides ideas for firsthand experience in the methods used by social scientists for their…