The Indiana Youth Institute (IYI) is an intermediary agency which supports adults statewide who care about youth. This handbook, which considers young people as resources, serves as a bridge to more information on youth involvement. It defines youth leadership and participation; provides program ideas and strategies; lays the foundation for…

Four lesson plans for teaching elementary students about the Amish in Indiana are presented in this document. The lessons include: (1) using periodicals to learn about Amish life; (2) using the budget to learn about Amish life; (3) simulating a day in an Amish school; and (4) visiting the Amish. A 14-item list of resources for teaching about the…

Lesson plans for secondary teachers based on documents and objects found in the Hershey Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania comprise the document. The Museum seeks to make its resources available to teachers who are not able to bring their students from the classroom to the Museum. Photocopied reproductions of the documents are provided for the…

In addition to its time-honored function of transmitting the heritage and of developing rational power, Washington believed that the school must also concern itself with character building, vocational training, civic and social competency. (Author/AM)

A model is provided which shows how the community can become a laboratory in which the learner studies data and makes decisions. In the community laboratory, learners are both participants and observers, helping them understand why they live as they do and how citizens work together to improve community life. (Author/JR)

Examines how the objectives of open schools and those of contemporary social studies are similar in trying to make the individual a functioning member of society with a high level of participation. One is to guide the children in learning activities that emerge from their own interests and involve the community as a resource and a laboratory.…

A variety of instructional resources for use in secondary Middle Eastern classes is listed, including books, texts, maps, audiovisual resources, projects, and organizations. (JR)

Provides some ideas for developing an arts program and suggests some sources of funding. (IRT)

The President of Kalamazoo College recommends a "total resource strategy" that brings together resource development and resource management to yield significantly larger returns in available operating income and underlying capital resources together than they can separately. Two models for new organizational staffing patterns for the…

This is a survey of the organization and materials production of the Nuffield Foreign Languages Teaching Materials Project. Development and structure are covered, noting important cooperation between writers and teachers. Writing, checking, duplicating and producing materials are surveyed, revealing the concept of teamwork and cooperation thought…

Fourteen films, filmstrips, and film series on the Middle East are reviewed for K-12 educators. Both the purchasing and rental costs are included in each review. (JR)

A study of facilitating anatomy student learning through the use of multimedia devices. (CH)

Greater utilization of resource personnel in vocational agriculture classes provides a high-quality program. Procedural guidelines discuss: (1) advance preparation, (2) contacting the resource, (3) introducing and moderating the presentation, (4) follow-up activities. (MW)

Rational selection of educational resources is a necessary step to effective teaching. Four criteria to consider in selection are the instructional objectives to be achieved by students, the resources available for use, the characteristics of students to be taught, and the teacher's ability and preferences. (Author)

This curriculum guide in health and safety is designed to promote greater achievement by second graders through alignment of the written, the taught, and the tested curriculum, and to promote broader and higher levels of thinking through providing objectives, activities, and strategies which integrate content and cognition. The document includes a…