GRADES OR AGES: Grades 1-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Family life and health. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into six sections: 1) early childhood, 2) middle childhood, 3) late childhood, 4) early adolescent, 5) middle adolescent, 6) late adolescent. Each part is laid out in two columns; column headings are content and…

GRADES OR AGES: Kindergarten. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies: home and family. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The introductory material includes an overview of the unit, suggestions for incorporating it in the K-12 social studies program, performance criteria, and suggested ways to initiate the unit. The main text is presented in four…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 1. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies: Families in the community. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The introductory material includes an overview of the unit, suggestions for incorporating it in the K-12 social studies program, and suggested ways to initiate the units. The main text is presented in four columns: content,…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 7. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies: the family. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The introductory material includes an overview of the unit, notes on the K-12 social studies program, performance criteria, and suggested ways to initiate the unit. The main text is presented in four columns: content, teacher direction,…

The learning activity, designed for the use of high school students in a family life education course, is designed to explore attitudes towards mate qualities in order to increase the students' awareness of marital expectations. The activity utilizes the format of an auction game and a group discussion. (EC)

These data were collected form a 25 percent sample of the regular and student memberships of the National Council on Family Relations. Only 33 percent of respondents consider the NCFR as their primary professional association. Strong support is found for the Council's continuing to take a public stand on controversial issues. (Author)

Maggie Kuhn, organizer of the Gray Panthers movement, talks about aging myths and old people and the handicapped, housing, and the family, with implications for home economics curricula. (MF)

A New York state mini-grant was used to open a resource center in a school health suite. Resources in sensitive content areas such as family life education and death education were gathered here for easy, but controlled, access by parents, teachers, and children. (MJB)

This paper is a preliminary statement about morning and night people. The authors collected and analyzed married student responses to open-ended questions concerning "morningness" and "nightness" as factors influencing individual, marital, and family adjustment. This issue has both theoretical and practical significance for marriage and the…

Mental health problems among children resulting from poor parenting, a high neonatal death rate, and a low level of medical education in the county provided impetus for developing a primary prevention program--Expectant Parent Program. This article summarizes the development, content, staff, funding, and results of the program. (Author)

Given current awareness and apparent reality of finite energy resources, there is a need to assess values and resource use. Stresses created by rescaling of consumption patterns and values require intervention programs based on new knowledge of the family-environment interface. The family as an ecosystem is a useful approach. (Author)

Outlines advantages and limitations of using literature in the teaching of family relationships, and provides examples illustrating how fiction and drama can provide the teacher with an instructional aid and provide the pupil with an approach to understanding family relationships. (SH)

Available from: Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded, Kinsmen National Institute on Mental Retardation Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Downsview, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada. A mother recounts the positive developments that followed a transfer of her mentally handicapped son from a distant institution to a nearby group home.…

Outlines three approaches to instruction about human sexuality. The approach emphasized recognizes that sexuality is an integral part of the human condition and envisions a human relations instructional core that incorporates materials at various grade levels. (Author/IRT)

The author argues that home economics educators must plan better for retrenchment, since currently the courses being cut (consumer education and family relations) are the ones that are most relevant to modern life. (CH)