This curriculum module, one of seven developed by the "Infusion Project," offers information and lessons on drug use prevention for integration into an existing seventh-grade exceptional education middle school curriculum for social skills, mathematics, science and language arts. The module, based on a type of interactive learning called…

General Electric Company (GE) of Erie, Pennsylvania, hosts onsite literacy classes in conjunction with the Northwest Tri-County Unit. The development of the inplant microcomputer literacy lab expands the offerings available to the participating adult basic education and General Educational Development program students by supplying software and…

This book offers an instructional model demonstrating how teachers can apply educational psychology in the classroom, with emphasis on the teacher as decision maker. The book is divided into four parts, and covers the following major topics and issues: Part 1 contains four chapters dealing with development and individual differences and discusses…

This manual was developed to train Peace Corps volunteers to teach vocational education in Tunisia, although it also has applications to the training of volunteers in other countries. The book is organized into four sections. The first section is an introduction that provides background information on the school system and the Peace Corps…

Developed for teachers of elementary and junior high school students, the "Literature at Home" program is designed to stimulate recreational reading and to enrich the regular classroom reading curriculum. Lesson plans include synopses, vocabulary lists, short-answer questions, activities (including many writing activities), and projects…

The major part of this preschool curriculum planning guide consists of 44 units focusing on six areas of skill development: fine motor, gross motor, social, self-help, language, and cognitive. Introducing the units are brief discussions of the curriculum in general and the unit approach to instruction. Most units include approximately five…

Combining reading, language arts, and economics, this interdisciplinary project involved fifth grade students in studying three units dealing with (1) an auto liner named the Karinita; (2) the port of Wilmington (Delaware); and (3) international trade. Specific unit lesson plans are provided in this project description. In unit 1, students learned…

This health education guide for the elementary grades focuses on students' acquiring information on growth and development, interacting with people and ideas, and decision making. The program enables students to acquire accurate health information and gain experiences contributing to attitudes, values, and responsible health practices. Each…

This curriculum guide is designed to help teachers conduct a course that provides senior high school students with the opportunity for in-depth exploration in the field of welding. The course provides students with experiences related to the design, theory, and use of welding systems. The first part of the guide contains such information as course…

This curriculum guide for food and nutrition is part of the senior high home economics curriculum for the province of Manitoba. An overview presents a rationale for the curriculum, program goals and objectives, and implementation strategies. The topic of food and nutrition is divided into eight major concepts or topics: significance of food,…

This manual and curriculum guide describe the steps in the development of a workplace English program for hotel housekeepers, offers methods for needs assessment, outlines a curriculum, provides reproducible hands-on classroom activities designed to practice the concepts of the curriculum and to trigger teachers' imaginations, and offers general…

This training package, consisting of information concerning the content, use, and applications of the Occupational Information System (OIS), is designed for use in a training presentation conducted for administrators, trainers, counselors, job placement specialists, and economic development staff who will be working with the OIS. Included in the…

Designed as a supplement to an existing technical trade or industrial course, this curriculum is a guide for instructors to teach small business management in vocational education classes. It is planned around approximately 30 hours of instruction. Each of the eight instructional units includes the following parts: objectives, transition of units…

Designed as part of a 40-hour course in medical law and economics, this lesson plan was developed to enable students to: (1) define and give examples of the tort of negligence in the medical profession; (2) distinguish between and give examples of personal and professional negligence; (3) be able to identify, for a given situation, the three major…

This manual, the second of three curriculum guides for an electronics course, is intended for use in a program combining vocational English as a second language (VESL) with bilingual vocational education. Ten units cover the electrical team, Ohm's law, Watt's law, series resistive circuits, parallel resistive circuits, series parallel circuits,…