This guide is designed to provide seventh-grade social studies teachers with materials needed to present instruction in reading skills and to teach those facts, concepts, and attitudes which are the aim of social studies education. Entries on the subject of Long Island and New York City are arranged by topic, and material within each topic is…

Part of a course designed to acquaint high school students with basic information concerning careers in community service, this teacher's manual is one of nine (each with accompanying student guide) which constitute a course entitled "Orientation to Public Service." Focus in the units covered by the manual is on resources management, one…

The purpose of this publication is to introduce the elementary classroom teacher or physical education specialist to a creative approach to movement education which can be implemented with limited facilities, equipment and funds. The first section, concerned with organization of programs, includes recommended percentages of time per year to be…

Several intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are listed for each of five terminal objectives for a 12- to 18-week course in which junior high school students explore institutional home management and supportive service occupations. Major concepts covered include awareness of the operation of institutional and…

A companion document to the curriculum guide for a secondary level child care services curriculum, this handbook contains a variety of administrative and program resources for the teacher: The vocational curriculum outline for child care services; a calendar of suggested public relations activities; procedures for building child care services…

This curriculum guide for levels III, IV, and V home economics teachers in New York State describes a process for planning and developing home economics courses. Emphasis is placed on the determination of student needs and the enrichment of learnings through participation in the Future Homemakers of America (FHA). The guide begins with a…

This is the teacher's guide for a learning module designed to integrate environmental education into ninth- and tenth-grade social studies classes. This module and a parallel module designed for chemistry classes were pilot tested in Gwinnett County, Georgia in 1975-76. The module is divided into four parts. The first part alerts students to the…

This teacher's guide is for an environmental education module to integrate topics of water quality in ninth- and tenth-grade social studies classes. This module was pilot tested in Gwinnett County, Georgia in 1975-76. Included in the guide are overall objectives, the module sequence, an introduction, a suggested teaching sequence, a word review…

This learner's guide is designed to meet the training needs for technicians involved in monitoring activities related to the Federal Water Pollution Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. In addition it will assist technicians in learning how to perform process control laboratory procedures for drinking water and wastewater treatment plant…

This guide, designed for the use of teachers in planning and implementing career education programs, is part of the systemwide Project CARE (Career Awareness and Readiness through Education). The guide contains sections for each grade level from kindergarten through twelve, with focus in the elementary level on awareness, in the middle school…

Six basic considerations in teaching literature to gifted children in grades four through six are presented in the first half of this curriculum guide: (1) The teacher needs a broad knowledge of literature, as well as a sensitivity to students, in order to recommend literature for each child. (2) The teacher's method of presentation is important.…

This publication is a K-12 curriculum guide for multidisciplinary energy education. These materials present activity ideas for various energy education themes for each grade level and for science, home economics, and health and physical education classes. Sections include: (1) Overview; (2) K-12 Social Studies Themes Related to the Energy Crisis;…

These teaching units, designed for use at the high school level, focus on nutrition, housing, health care, and retirement. The purpose of the unit on nutrition, housing, and health care is to provide an inquiry approach by which the student may become more aware of certain problems of the aged members of the community. The student, upon completion…

This monograph is one of a series describing courses developed for a curriculum in higher education which prepares personnel for employment in local, state and regional levels of Employment and Training (formerly Manpower) Administration programs of the U.S. Department of Labor. This course, called "Critical Issues in Women Employment,"…

The Rumson-Fair Haven Senior Elective Program was developed and implemented by students, faculty, and administrators over the three-year period from 1971 to 1974. The program offers high school students who complete graduation requirements in the first three years of the four-year program a combination of the following options for the senior year:…