This curriculum guide, developed in cooperation with the State Advisory Committee on Fireman Training for Post-High School Preparatory Programs, summarizes the need for formal training programs in fire protection and offers guidelines for their establishment. It is also a practical handbook for the planning of fire protection curriculums and…

The pilot edition of the curriculum guide for elementary gifted education of the Cranston, Rhode Island, school department offers a resource framework for the presentation of academic material while providing for individual instruction and initiative. The curriculum funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act offers…

This guidebook is designed to be both a resource book and a tentative curriculum outline. The language arts program described for grades 7 through 10 attempts to provide students with a basic background from which they can draw information and skills as needed for their successful work in the English electives offered in grades 11 and 12. The…

This is a report of a career education program, first conceived through a school assembly and initiated at Fruth Elementary School in grades K-6. The format used by the teachers correlates a phase of the world of work with regular school work. Some students and teachers from the Career Education Tech. Center participate in this program as do…

Scope and content charts specifying units, topics, and time allotment are provided for grades 7 and 8. Sets, numeration systems, whole numbers and positive rational numbers, ratio-proportion-and-percent, and geometry are the units covered in seventh grade. In eighth grade, the units include sets, real numbers, ratio-proportion-and-percent,…

Presented is a course outline for the study of microorganisms, what they are, and how they solve the two basic problems of life - staying alive and reproducing. Much emphasis is placed on the physiological activities of bacteria. The course is designed for the average student in biology and could be used as a first course in biology. Experiments…

GRADES OR AGES: College. SUBJECT MATTER: Developmental psychology, the teaching of reading, teacher education, science for the grades, physical education, health education, teaching a directed reading lesson, music in the elementary school, methods and materials for secondary science teaching, high school reading, methods and materials for…

This is a course of study based on the American Anthropological Society's Anthropology Curriculum Study Project comprised of Unit 1, "Studying Societies," and Unit 2, "Origins of Humanness." The following topics are outlined: 1) examination of life in a small society by studying a contemporary hunter-gatherer group, the Bushmen…

GRADES OR AGES: First grade. SUBJECT MATTER: Health education. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE. The guide is divided into five "strands" or topics: Physical Health; Sociological Health Problems; Mental Health; Environmental and Community Health; and Education for Survival (safety and first aid). Under each strand there are divisions of…

This curriculum guide contains the Southeastern Education Laboratory/Project Language Lessons 17-32 stressing listening, speaking, and reading readiness for disadvantaged kindergarten children. The lessons are designed to be used in the SEL's mobile preschool units or as readiness materials for kindergarten. The major emphasis of this intervention…

A curriculum guide for the Camp Casey Outdoor Education program is contained in this document. Designed for fifth grade students and teachers in Northshore School District, Bothell, Washington, it emphasizes learning activities for use in the outdoors. General understandings relevant to the objectives of the program form the frame into which the…

New arrangements for craft training in the British engineering industry call for a three stage structure: (1) a year of basic training in a wide variety of skills (welding, vehicle painting, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and others); (2) selected training in specialized skills under controlled conditions; (3) experience in using…

This guide provides a structured program for the slow learner in mathematics grades 6-11. Suggestions for implementing the program are included. The guide is divided into the following major areas of mathematical competency: Fundamental Operations, Geometry, Measurement, Graphing, Algebra, Probability and Statistics, and Logic. Recreation is the…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7-9. SUBJECT MATTER: Social science; history. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The extensive introductory material includes rationale, definitions of the social science core disciplines, glossary of terms, guidelines for teaching, behavioral and long-range objectives, guide format, and descriptions of concepts. The…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 2 and 3. SUBJECT MATTER: Language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has two main sections, level two and level three, each subdivided into listening skills, speaking skills, and writing skills. The material in each section is set out in three columns: skills, teaching procedures, and materials. The guide…