The guide's contents are designed as ideas that could be used to develop various career education concepts and objectives at the first grade level. The activities are to be integrated into existing curriculum, sequenced, and adapted to meet the needs of all people involved in education at the local school. The purpose of the guideline, a career…

Bilingual education in English and Spanish is intended to give native speakers of both languages insights into two cultures, a broader background, and greater life opportunities. Spanish-speaking students in bilingual programs can retain their language ties and the ability to communicate with their families and older relatives. The directors of…

This unit deals with mapping the urban environment. The unit is designed to help the student visualize his surroundings, read and interpret maps, and create maps. These understandings and skills are designed to help the student develop a sense of self-control and a sense of personal control over his environment. The unit is a student oriented,…

The curriculum guide describes an exemplary project designed to provide junior high school students with an opportunity to explore careers related to the world of music. The units present objectives, activities, and resources related to the following occupations: pop music artist, professional musician (union), instrumental and vocal music…

The grade 8 curriculum guide contains four lessons covering the career preparation knowledge, skills, and self-knowledge domains and is designed to introduce students to careers in physical education. Each lesson includes a goal, performance objective, activities and outcome measure. The overall goal is for the students to acquire knowledge of…

The interest-based curriculum materials are designed to correlate the subjects of English, math, science, and home economics in an effort to infuse academic skills into the world of work. The curriculum guide is designed for mathematics curriculum and is divided into 11 sections: orientation, whole numbers, common fractions, decimal fractions,…

This collection of environmental education activities focuses on the school and its surroundings. The activities reinforce the concept that the immediate school environment contains elements that are common to the structure of the whole man-made environment. The activities provide ideas for using the school building, school grounds, and…

The curriculum guide is based on the Career Conscious Individual Career Education Model, designed to create career consciousness in students at all educational levels; to help them develop necessary life competencies, attitudes, and values; to assist them in visualizing possible careers; and to analyze and relate these roles to their present…

This guide, for use at the junior high level, is aimed at helping our youth become more knowledgeable concerning the environment and associated problems, thus making them aware of how to solve these problems and motivating them to work toward their solution. Among the subjects discussed are art in nature, erosion, body pollution, water pollution,…

This course of study offers to seventh grade pupils themes which are designed to clarify the meaning and importance of the urban environment in which they live. The guide is about people in the cities and about the planning, growth, and problems of cities. Themes cover the Baltimore city area, urbanization in Maryland, urbanization in the United…

This curriculum guide introduces teachers and pupils to the results of a UNESCO sponsored project for developing international understanding through an experience centered curriculum approach. Using this approach students generalize from their personal experience to concepts about humans and societies. Fifteen teachers from eight countries…

This curriculum guide presents a 3-year program, for children in kindergarten and early primary grades, designed to facilitate continuous learning in a non-graded setting. The guide describes how learning experiences can be adjusted to the student's developmental needs and abilities in a wide range of curriculum areas: language arts, mathematics,…

The guide provides planned career education information outlining the scope and sequence of activities in order to assist teachers in giving students many "hands-on" experiences. Presenting the primary and intermediate career education curriculum material in a single volume facilitates program articulation. For both the primary and intermediate…

The annotated bibliography lists approximately 900 commercially prepared materials available for statewide distribution from the West Virginia College of Graduate Studies Special Education Instructional Materials Center (WEIMC) for use in teaching educable (EMR) and trainable mentally retarded (TMR) students. Materials are grouped under subject…

This course is designed to teach basic Russian terminology and structure which will allow the student, with the help of a good dictionary, to translate scientific material. Before taking the course, the student should control the Russian sound system and should be thoroughly familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet. This curriculum guide includes a…