This handbook has been designed to allow organizations and institutions to develop a basic course in gerontology relative to their own individual needs. Intended to provide a method and a wide variety of materials from which to select in order to design a course suitable for a particular setting, the selection of this format was guided by the need…

Eight units of study, each divided into three or four episodes, make up this Illinois driver's education curriculum for commercial schools. Each unit contains behavioral objectives for the unit and for the individual episodes, each of which is broken down into sub-objectives with corresponding content information or tasks to be performed. The…

This is a catalogue of recent media, both print and non-print, designed to highlight the role of women outside the home. It describes current filmstrips, slides, records, cassettes, simulation games, study prints, and other software for use with all grade levels. Private and government sources for free and inexpensive pamphlets are also listed…

Presented is the second in a series of modules from a project to adapt the New York State Health Education curriculum for physically disabled students (grades K-12). An introductory section to the volume on sociological health problems provides definitions and summaries about nine physically disabling conditions and briefly considers activities at…

This guide is separated into the following four age groups: 5-6 years, 7-9 years, 10-12 years, and 13-18 years. Curriculum concepts and learning opportunities are presented more or less sequentially from the basic to the more difficult. Information at the beginning of each age-level section provides a brief summary of the general understanding of…

An overview of Iowa's plan for curriculum improvement in industrial arts, K-12, describes the development, content, and implementation strategies of a new State curriculum guide. Guide development involved two committees made up of teachers, supervisors, educators, and consultants from around the State who reviewed literature, recently developed…

The guide to planning a consumer education program for K-12 was developed by teachers in a Massachusetts school district during a series of workshops; direction was provided by the results of a parent questionnaire. The document is comprised of a resource guide and three outlines of concepts and generalizations to be developed in consumer…

This booklet presents a step-wise sequence for incorporating environmental objectives into any instructional program. The process involves determination of awareness, selection of the environmental problem, identifying subject area units, writing environmental objectives, specifying skills, naming concepts and content, developing unit…

This course outline designed for beginning theater students includes a statement of the premise and the assumption behind the course, the task to be accomplished, and the method to be used. The activities include a review of theater practice, a study of modern drama, and studio projects. (LL)

A team of outstanding Mexican American women educators from the Southwest designed these course outlines for college and university levels focusing on "la mujer Chicana" in history, literature, sociology, and higher education. This curriculum guide includes materials aimed to stimulate the student's examination of the Chicana in finding…

This guide is first of a series of curriculum guides dealing with nutrition education in grades K-6. The curriculum guide was designed to incorporate knowledge of thirteen concepts into the child's decision-making processes as a food consumer. These concepts, as covered by the guide, are: affecting bodily well-being through nutrition; affecting…

This curriculum guide for nutrition education grade 1, was designed to incorporate knowledge of thirteen concepts into the child's decision-making processes as a food consumer. These concepts, as covered by the guide, are: affecting bodily well-being through nutrition; affecting dental health through nutrition; models for diet selection;…

This curriculum guide for nutrition education grade 2, was designed to incorporate knowledge of thirteen concepts into the child's decision-making processes as a food consumer. These concepts, as covered by the guide, are: affecting bodily well-being through nutrition; affecting dental health through nutrition; models for diet selection;…

This curriculum guide for nutrition education grade 3, was designed to incorporate knowledge of thirteen concepts into the child's decision-making processes as a food consumer. These concepts, as covered by the guide, are: affecting bodily well-being through nutrition; affecting dental health through nutrition; models for diet selection;…

This handbook, which complements another handbook designed for reading instruction, focuses on the behavioral objectives in the four language arts skills of spelling, writing, listening, and speaking. The first section of the handbook contains an introductory statement, a diagram of the program design, and a list of the affective objectives. The…