This manual is a resource for elementary and middle school educators who want to select and use videos in instruction. Designed to help educators maximize the instructional value of videos, the first section includes lesson-planning strategies, lesson plans, teaching techniques, and sources for recording educational videos from broadcast or cable…

Recommended sources for the selection of school library materials are listed in this annotated bibliography intended to aid schools in developing their library collections. The sources cover a variety of media including fiction, nonfiction, biographies, picture books, reference books, filmstrips, films, video programs, microcomputer courseware,…

This guide cites and describes 241 films on energy. The categories are: general films on energy, conservation of energy, history of energy development, coal, electricity, food and energy, geothermal, natural gas, nuclear energy, oil/petroleum, oil shale, solar energy, tar sands, tidal energy, wind, impacts of energy, and future of energy. For each…

Seventy documents including primary source materials, simulations, mock trials, short stories, vignettes, and statistical data are provided for the implementation of the elementary, middle, and high school human rights curriculum. Original documents include: (1) the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; (2) the Declaration of the Rights of the…

One of a series of resources for teaching sociology at the postsecondary level, this volume contains syllabi and instructional materials for courses in criminology and criminal justice. Material is divided into four sections. Section 1, innovative approaches to the teaching of criminology, contains four papers which discuss a corrections practicum…

One of several supplementary materials for a newspaper course on moral choices in contemporary society, this sourcebook contains program ideas and resources to help civic leaders and educators plan programs based on the course topics. There are four sections. The first section explains how the topics can be used in planning programs, identifies…

Designed to aid librarians, school teachers, and others in need of American Indian references and reference sources, this compilation covers a wide variety of material which has generally been scattered throughout various individual references. Specifically, this reference book includes: (1) Location of Tribes by State; (2) Locations of Tribes by…

This booklet offers classroom activities for use with 15 social studies-related films for teaching about Germany. The series of 25-minute films are made available by Deutsche Welle Television and Goethe House New York. Lessons in the booklet include: (1) "Germany Since 1945: A Focus on Berlin"; (2) "'I'll Get You All Out of Here!' A…

This guide to films appropriate for junior and senior high school classes of English as a second language (ESL) includes general comments on the use of films in ESL instruction, notes on how to use the film guide, an outline of procedures and class activities for the presentation of films, and an annotated filmography. The films are listed in two…

This catalogue consists of an alphabetical listing of more than 200 films, each with an annotation including a brief description of the film, intended audience, and length of film (most running from about 10 to 30 minutes). Titles were selected by Film Preview Committees of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. A list of…

Resource materials and suggestions are presented as part of the multimedia instructional program on relationships among science, technology, and society. The major objective of the program is to make college level course material available to the general public through cooperation of newspapers, public television, and 300 participating colleges…

This directory provides a source of nonprint materials for educators who seek multimedia resources in the field of administration. The nonprint materials listed include 16mm films, videotapes, audiotapes, multimedia kits, filmstrips, and simulations. Concentration is on topics of interest in the planning of workshops or seminars, the training of…

Curriculum material citations relevant to the Native peoples of Alberta, Canada, were assembled into a bibliography that includes books, multi-media materials, periodicals, and other educational resources. The classroom teacher searching for Native Studies materials was kept especially in mind as the project progressed. Criteria for selection…

Developed by teachers at the Poplar River School Number 050 (Negginan, Ontario, Canada), this curriculum guide presents a cultural expansion program for: (1) kindergarten students (a unit on community study including such topics as: food, shelter, clothing, medicine, transportation and a unit on "other" Indian cultures "by way of…

This manual is intended to aid high school industrial arts teachers to infuse career exploration and career education into the industrial arts curriculum. It relates the specific skills learned in various industrial art classes to various occupations, providing a means for students to "try on" occupations via projects and self-assessment.…