This booklet contains suggestions of ways to create materials and activities for the writing classroom. Following an introduction that emphasizes the importance of writing, the booklet presents lesson plans that utilize community and multisensory resources; offers a rationale for establishing a writing resource center in the classroom and ideas…

The general format of a representative learning module is presented to provide a guide for teachers attempting to construct their own modules. A statement of need for such a project is followed by an examination of the individual components making up most learning modules: (1) organizational numbering system; (2) general statement; (3) task…

This set of nine units is intended to furnish aerospace-oriented resource material to help teachers include recent scientific and technological advances in the secondary school science curriculum. The units provided are as follows: history of astronomy, the solar system, beyond the solar system, history of flight, spaceflight facts, aerology,…

A number of activities designed to develop each of six concepts listed for each of six conceptual schemes are presented. The conceptual schemes are: (1) Matter may be transformed; under ordinary (classroom-laboratory) conditions it is not created or destroyed; (2) Energy may be transformed; under ordinary conditions it is not created or destroyed;…

This booklet presents 32 teaching activities for 6-, 7-, and 8-year olds, providing individual lessons designed to promote better skills and understanding in the areas of nutrition, mental and physical health, and learning abilities. The activities are divided into four sections on nutrition, physical health, mental health, and developmental…

This curriculum guide for the elementary school portion of a K-12 health education program contains notes on eleven areas: Alcohol, Anatomy and Physiology, Community Health, Consumer Health, Dental Health, Disease Control, Family Health, Heredity and Environment, Mental Health, Nutrition, and Safety Education. The notes on each area contain a…

This booklet augments earlier reports describing projects in mathematics for the educationally disadvantaged in New York State. Actual lesson preparation and classroom implementation are stressed. Projects represented include Mathematics Pilot Program, Individually Prescribed Instruction, and Plus Program. Other lessons concern cognition and…

This teacher's manual presents the Spanish decoding skills. Used prior to basic Spanish language primers, it teaches the basic skills necessary for reading Spanish. The manual is organized into four sections. Section 1 contains day-by-day instructional plans; section 2 contains general information concerning the mechanics of the Spanish language…

Presented are guidelines for curriculum design and development for mentally handicapped children and youth. The diagrammatic introduction to the framework for curriculum development covers persisting problems of daily living, yearly scopes of investigations, and developmental organization of persisting problems. Practical guidelines on organizing…

This guide is designed for the second part of a two-part bookkeeping course for adults who are either keeping a set of records for a small business, or who wish to prepare to do so. The following seven lessons are included and are based on a business making retail sales of goods: (1) Introduction; (2) Data Sources and Recording for a Trading…

The ten lessons outlined in this document are based on articles from "The National Observer" used as sources of contemporary writing which varies in subject matter, length, and style. Lessons focus on reading comprehension, vocabulary development, composition, discussion and reasoning, primary and secondary sources, poetry writing,…

To acquaint students with principal taxonomic terms, local plants from natural surroundings of the school that exhibit attributes of each group are used in the steppe region of the Soviet Union. (Author/ND)

Practical classroom management techniques are offered for secondary school teachers' daily use. (MJB)

Specific techniques for encouraging the writing of poetry. (AA)

This activity designed for secondary students provides extensive background on the differences between the executive, the judicial, and the legislative branches of government. Through the case study method, students learn how the powers of the three branches co-exist and conflict. (BSR)