This curriculum guide contains information, materials, and resources dealing with Italian Americans and Italian American culture. The guide is organized into 5 units, each presenting a major theme related to the history of Italian Americans from their immigration to their integration into American society. Each unit provides historical and…

This guide contains lesson plans and outlines of science activities which present concepts of solar energy in the context of biology experiments. Each unit presents an introduction; objectives; skills and knowledge needed; materials; methods; questions; recommendations for further work; and a teacher information sheet. The teacher information…

In this guide for teachers using the SMSG text materials for grade 5, five chapters on numeration systems, factors and primes, multiplication and division, and congruency of geometric figures are considered. The purpose is stated for each unit and mathematical background for the teacher is presented. Teaching procedures are then detailed through…

This guide for teachers using the SMSG text materials for grade 5 considers four chapters on addition and subtraction of rational numbers, measurement of angles, area, and ratio, plus a review of the fifth-grade program. The objectives or purposes for each unit are given, followed by mathematical background. Detailed lesson plans are then…

In this guide for the SMSG text materials for kindergarten, an overview describes the philosophy behind the program. Mathematical background is presented, followed by activities to develop concepts on sets, recognition of geometric figures, comparison of sets, subsets, joining and removing, comparison of sizes and shapes, ordering, using geometric…

The curriculum guide is intended as a source to help teachers plan consumer education classes in Nevada, from junior high school through the adult level. Developed for a semester's (18 weeks) separate course of study, using individual or group instruction, the guide may be expanded to meet the needs of a full year. Each unit can be taught as an…

A study of 70 educable mentally retarded children (9- to 13-years-old) was conducted to examine the effects of special class teachers' use of an attentional cueing technique in response to oral reading errors. During oral reading lessons, errors were recorded under conditions in which the teacher was either instructed to make her normal responses…

One of five sections of materials for a program to change teacher attitudes toward career education, the leader's guide presents a plan for a three-day teacher inservice workshop involving role playing by both dissonant and consonant groups. The dissonant group consists of persons with low change orientation who assume roles advocating career…

Primarily intended for instructors but also useful to students, this guide provides a set of lessons (interlaced with humorous phrases and cartoons) for teaching fundamental information for the building trades. Each lesson contains objectives, related information, and a review or summary. Unit I is a brief, humorous message to the student on the…

This Spanish language curriculum guide is divided into three parts: a teacher's guide consisting of eight units--"An Adequate Diet,""Brushing Your Teeth,""A Visit to the Dentist,""Is It Necessary to Sleep?", "Who Can Do Better?", "A Visit to the Doctor,""Resting,""Bathing"--with material and procedural suggestions and a variety of lessons in each…

The Zip Pak for the pre-primer reading level was developed for use with migrant Mexican American children with reading deficiencies. Its goals are to: (1) increase and widen the child's ability to be selective in choosing his information and selecting information pertinent to a purpose; and (2) improve the child's ability to make decisions,…

This Science Study Aid (SSA), structured for grade levels 7-9, is based on work of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) conducted at the Western Regional Research Center in Berkeley, California. It is concerned with food aroma, its intensity and character, and olfactory threshold determinations. The SSA provides…

The guide briefly describes the objectives and content of a career awareness course consisting of a nine-week block (approximately 45 sessions) which was offered to all Dickinson Area Vocational High School students during their sophomore year. It gives week by week suggestions for implementing the career awareness program, including seminars,…

This is a collection of the first 13 units (primary-intermediate levels) of materials designed for the Conceptually Oriented Mathematics Program (COMP). The program is intended to diagnose student difficulty, provide a prescriptive program of improvement, and meet individual needs through small-group instruction. Content has been organized into 11…

This is a collection of the last 12 units (intermediate-upper levels) of materials designed for the Conceptually Oriented Mathematics Program (COMP). The program is intended to diagnose student difficulty, provide a prescriptive program of improvement, and meet individual needs through small-group instruction. Content has been organized into 11…