A curriculum guide for Grade 7, the document is devoted to the occupational cluster "Fine Arts and Humanities." It is divided into five units: drama and literature, music, dance, art, and crafts. Each unit is introduced by a statement of the topic, the unit's purpose, main ideas, quests, and a list of career opportunities…

The guide is designed to aid the teacher in helping the students to increase awareness and maturity in the decision making process when alternatives are encountered to which they must react. While many of the suggested activities are designed to foster a personal maturity, the emphasis is placed upon maturity in vocational and career decision…

The guide provides both subject matter and career preparation assistance for physics teachers. It is arranged in vertical columns relating curriculum concepts in physics to curriculum performance objectives, career concepts and career performance objectives, suggested teaching methods, and resource materials. Career information is included on 46…

A model curriculum is reported for training personnel who are responsible for managing highway maintenance field operations. The training is organized and sequenced by five broad areas--management problems, management by objective, work planning, work control and management systems. In each area, one or more training units are provided for each of…

Under a grant from the North Dakota State Board for Vocational and Technical Education, a project in vocational research in the field of Environmental Science Technology was conducted for the purpose of developing vocational education curricula. The resulting curricula is for a two year program. The proposal is divided into suggested courses to be…

This publication contains an extensive introduction for teachers covering such topics as questioning, reading in the science program, evaluation, and audiovisual materials. The book itself is a teacher's guide and is based on the concept that learning is best facilitated by providing meaningful problems which the learner is able to solve. Topics…

This book is a curriculum guide for seventh-grade general science. It contains four units of chemistry, physics, biology, and earth science. Each unit is divided into sections covering major concepts. Each section contains science activities and contains explanations of objectives and implementation of the lesson. At the end of each section are…

This unit attempts to interrelate the traditional biological science studies such as food webs, population changes and ecological succession to form a coherent picture of our world today, the factors that created it and the forces that continue to change it. Designed for use in the secondary schools, it is built around nine films and has seven…

The 135-hour quinmester course covers study of basic radio circuits as applied to vacuum tube radios in six blocks of instruction: orientation; AM receivers with tubes; no signal, audio failure; distortion; weak, noisy signals; and a post-test. Each block is subdivided into several units, and block objectives are outlined. Completion of AC…

The course outline has been prepared as a guide for the vocational student employed full time and enrolled in a cooperative education program in the area of his vocational objective. The 45-hour course is presented in nine instructional blocks: cooperative job description, identification of training agency organization, identification of training…

This Quinmester course includes installations, electrical and mechanical servicing, reverse cycle air conditioning, malfunctions, troubleshooting and repair, discharge, pump down, and recharging the system. The course may be taught as a two or three Quinmester credit course. In each instance the course consists of six instructional blocks:…

This curriculum guide provides the student with an understanding of the various methods of handling, paying, and recording payroll and sales taxes; fixed assets and their disposal; depreciation; losses due to bad debts; various types of notes; and accrued interest and expenses. Also listed are the 27 performance objectives, a course outline,…

This Quinmester course provides students with an understanding of the financial activities of partnerships, division of income or loss, fiscal period reports, and Federal income tax. Also contained in the document are a list of the performance objectives, a course content outline, the evaluative instruments used, and suggested resources for…

This course introduces the student to the goals and organization of the cosmetology program, and includes aspects of hygiene, ethics, bacteriology, law, and safety rules. Course content includes goals, specific objectives, orientation, shampooing and rinses, finger-waving, pin curling, and roller curls. A brief bibliography and 30 pages of…

This unit, focusing on transportation, is designed to be utilized with junior high school students as an individual study. It has a minimum amount of teacher presentation and attempts to facilitate student learning about such topics as types of transportation in metropolitan areas, factors which determine the cost of a new automobile, laws…