The curriculum outline is designed to aid the instructor in developing a more complete course of study and in presenting a more consistent drafting and design program for intermediate and secondary school students. The guide is introduced by a discussion of objectives fundamental to a sound program of industrial arts education, followed by an…

Intended for use in conducting short seminars on sanitation for restaurant owners and managers, the conceptual outline is organized to provide four hours of classroom instruction. Two major concepts are emphasized. The first concept, the effect of sanitary practices on the financial profits of food service, focuses on: (1) service and quality to…

Winter seems to hold more mysteries than any other season. It changes the behavior of wildlife and also brings about drastic changes in plant life. This unit, designed around the following two ideas: (1) to develop an appreciation and understanding of the winter season and (2) to understand how plants and wildlife are affected by the winter…

These two environmental education units were designed for use at the sixth-grade level. The first unit focuses on science and is a five-week study which emphasizes ecology along a creek. The unit is designed around the idea that a creek and its surrounding area serve as a suitable focus for environmental study because they illustrate many…

The Career English Curriculum Guide has been prepared to better equip students with communication skills required in the working world. Basic skills of reading job-related materials and writing brief resumes are blended with the less measurable skills of developing good relationships with fellow employees and good attitudes toward work in general.…

This student centered curriculum guide stresses learning activities. The first section offers a brief course description of the seventh grade, eighth grade, and ninth grade language arts programs. The second section describes in detail the skills objectives and activities for: written communication, oral communication, grammar, spelling,…

This guide for the speech curriculum includes three separate but interrelated sections: intercultural communication syllabuses, communication and social change/development syllabuses, and international communication syllabuses--media emphasis. Each section contains a number of syllabuses originally designed for various speech courses at schools in…

The teacher's guide to Orientation to Health Occupations is an outline for a course designed to create student awareness of the broad range of health occupations. It can be adapted for use at the junior high school through postsecondary levels and is designed to be used in a variety of ways. There are 18 units of instruction, each containing one…

This curriculum guide is designed to be used in conjunction with the text "Artes Latinae," units 1-10. The course focuses on the listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills as well as on cultural background material. Emphasis is placed on developing a positive student attitude toward language learning. The student moves at his own…

Classes for senior adults (adults sixty years old or older, or retired) have become commonplace. Many instructors have no experience with this kind of student, so the need for instructors trained in special learning theories and practices that apply to senior adults has been identified. This report is designed to serve as a refresher or supplement…

Within the scope of the English program in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights (Ohio) junior high schools, three areas of concentration have been defined: literature, language, and composition. Correlation of these three areas is the focal point of this English course guide supplement for grades seven, eight, and nine. In the literature…

As part of a continuing program designed to provide Nevada's school population with information that will facilitate greater awareness and understanding of past and present Native Nevadan lifestyles and contributions, this generalized curriculum guide might constitute a social studies unit for upper elementary and/or junior high schools. Areas…

This guide is a result of two years' piloting and revising the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) program for the students of Guam. The life science portions of SCIS were chosen and adapted for the ecology of the area. Program flexibility is stressed and outdoor activities are encouraged. Used in grade one, the topic of organisms is…

The guide is one of a series developed in a pilot project to integrate career education concepts with subject matter in secondary grades. The units are designed to reveal career orientation aspects of traditional topics within five major subject areas: English, social studies, mathematics, science, and health and physical education. The lesson…

The carpentry curriculum guide was developed as a basic guide to be used by instructors in formulating their own courses of study. The material is designed for use in vocational carpentry classes at grade levels 10, 11, and 12. Planned as a two-year sequence, it incorporates 1080 class hours of instruction and emphasizes light or residential type…