This particular issue of the "California Curriculum Newsletter" focuses on the proposed Social Sciences Framework--its status, an evaluation, aids to interpretation, and its availability. Trends in California social sciences textbooks are briefly discussed, and highlights are offered of five programs related to the social sciences which…

This program guide for distributive education was developed as a cooperative effort of the Chicago Public Schools and the business community to help the teacher-coordinator establish a cooperative program and organize related activities and classroom instruction. Information is provided on the role of the teacher-coordinator, program activities…

Designed for use by teachers of the handicapped, the curriculum guide provides brief objectives and activities in readiness for vocational preparation at the primary level. At the intermediate-junior high level, 14 specific lessons are presented which contain objectives, teaching suggestions, activities, and materials in aspects ranging from self…

GRADES OR AGES: Inservice course for secondary teachers. SUBJECT MATTER: Earth science. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is intended for use with a 32-program television course for teachers, with material intended to be used in the classroom. The introductory material explains the rationale of the course and includes the…

GRADES OR AGES: Four-, five-, and six-year olds. SUBJECT MATTER: Cognitive areas of symbolism, classification, conservation, seriation, spatial relationship, and temporal relationships. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into six sections, one for each of the above cognitive areas. Each section lists materials and describes…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 10 and 11. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies; United States history, geography, and civilization. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is a separate volume of 19 appendixes to Units I and II (SP 007 084 and SP 007 085). It is mimeographed and staple-bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: No objectives…

Part of a language arts program developed under an ESEA Title 3 grant, this curriculum guide for film study in the 10th grade is intended to help students (1) view films more critically, (2) understand the procedures of film making, and (3) appreciate the film as a work of art. Nine films are recommended for viewing, and sample lessons, including…

Instructional materials and reference materials applicable to migratory children and youth are compiled in this revised annotated bibliography containing over 800 entries. Materials listed are coded by content area (health, information on migrants and culturally disadvantaged, curriculum materials, guidance, occupational, supplementary…

This reading program guide was developed as an inservice ESEA/Title III project in order to improve reading instruction in self-contained classrooms of grades 1 through 7 at the Louisa (Kentucky) Elementary School. Sequences of reading skills were divided into 12 primary and 16 intermediate levels, and students progressed from one level to another…

This publication is a mathematics curriculum guide for the schools in the state of Indiana. Its purpose is to assist local school districts in the evaluation of existing mathematics curricula and to promote the development of better mathematics programs at all grade levels. This guide offers philosophies of elementary and secondary mathematics…

This unit of instruction includes nine laboratory experiments. All of the experiments are from the D.C. Health Revision of the Chemical Education Materials Study (CHEMS) with one exception. Program six is the lab from the original version of the CHEMS program. Each program consists of three parts (1) the lab and computer hints, (2) the description…

This guide is intended to be used for instruction in communication skills from the seventh grade through the twelfth. Each section of the guide is identified by grade level and includes instructional objectives, suggestions for introducing and motivating the unit, required material, suggested activities, audiovisual aids, resource materials, and…

The adolescent's exploration of himself and his relationship to other individuals, as well as the interaction between the social and physical environment and his own behavior are among the goals of the Identity Unit. The unit infuses these objectives with the cognitive components of a junior-senior English literature curriculum. This guide offers…

This curricular guide focuses on life science and is designed for use with seventh grade students. Life science was chosen as the course of study based on the rationale that, as pupils enter junior high school, they are in early adolescence and find it difficult to understand themselves so that the study of living things with a thorough…

This course guide is the fifth in a series dealing with chemistry. The course is specifically designed for students interested in taking the Advanced Placement Chemistry examination and thus is equivalent to a first year college general chemistry course. Included in the guide are performance objectives, visual aids, a course outline, a list of…