This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in teaching students how to sample and analyze soil to determine its pH value. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is intended for use in combination on- and off-the-job programs to familiarize youth with the skills, knowledge,…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in teaching students about lawn care. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is intended for use in combination on- and off-the-job programs to familiarize youth with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for success in the…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in helping students gather and record information about sheep breeding, learn about treatment of diseases, prepare the lambing area, and assist with the aftercare of lambs and ewes. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is intended…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in helping students integrate crop records and market returns with computer analysis and interpretation of results. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is intended for use in combination on- and off-the-job programs to familiarize…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in teaching students to analyze and categorize work accidents, to look for potential hazards, to find out about safety training, and to organize a work safety campaign. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is intended for use in…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in helping students learn about the operations of a marine hose factory, requisition supplies, rewarp nylon binders, determine the cost of material depreciation, communicate with coworkers, and learn about health and safety procedures. Though specific to…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in helping students become familiar with meat processing--livestock at the stockyards, meat packers (wholesalers), and butcher shops--to the cooked state and to become familiar with the different joints (cuts or parts) of beef, lamb, and pork. The guide…

This document is a curriculum guide for a course for electronics mechanics for use in vocational-technical education. The course outline includes the following units: adjusting/aligning/calibrating electronic circuitry, replacing components, maintaining electronic devices, designing equipment and circuitry, performing environmental tests, and…

This curriculum guide is designed to provide students with an overview of the duties, procedures, concepts, tools, and equipment used in the auto body industry. This introductory course will prepare students to undertake training in one or more specialty areas of the auto-body trade. Suitable for secondary, postsecondary, or adult education…

Intended to help economics educators in grades K-12 foster in students the thinking skills and substantive economic knowledge necessary to become effective and participating citizens, this book is organized around four themes. Part I presents an introduction by Mark C. Schug and a section on "The Current Status of Economics in the K-12 Curriculum"…

The twin goals of this guide are to provide a greater understanding of basic economic concepts and an insight into Japanese culture. Economic concepts emphasized are: (1) scarcity; (2) choice; (3) production; (4) markets; (5) specialization and exchange; (6) sources of income; (7) free enterprise; and (8) marketing the product. Classroom…

This curriculum guide provides materials for a competency-based course in automotive mechanics at the secondary level. The curriculum design uses the curriculum infused model for the teaching of basic skills as part of vocational education and demonstrates the relationship of vocationally related skills to communication, mathematics, and science…

This curriculum guide provides materials for a competency-based course in recreational vehicle trades at the secondary level. The curriculum design uses the curriculum infused model for the teaching of basic skills as part of vocational education and demonstrates the relationship of vocationally related skills to communication, mathematics, and…

Designed to assist secondary school social studies, English, and humanities teachers as they teach about the Nazi Holocaust, the second of two volumes serves as a continuing introduction to the concept of human rights. Building on the first volume, which dealt with the roots of intolerance and persecution and precursors of the Holocaust, this…

The reading and listening program described in this Montgomery County, Maryland, curriculum guide is based on sets of instructional and performance objectives for each grade level from kindergarten to eighth grade. Within each grade level set, the guide organizes the objectives into major categories that represent important areas of instruction:…