The collection of lesson units for grades 5 and 6 is part of a K-6 career education program. Learning activities relate the subject areas directly to occupations, emphasizing how the skills of the various disciplines are needed in different jobs. Some of the suggested techniques are field trips, guest speakers, and role playing. Included also are…

The publication is the first in a series of activity books for kindergarten and first grade students. The activity book consists of materials for the teacher, including lesson objectives, narration, activities, resources, and student materials. The book aims to foster knowledge about careers while improving basic skills. The unit focuses on the…

During the summer of 1968, a 6-week inservice training institute was held at Duluth, Minnesota, for 45 experienced teachers from 13 secondary schools throughout the United States. These schools are part of a 17-school ES '70 Network banded together for the purpose of developing innovative curricula for the 1970's. The purpose of the institute was…

The Materials and Activities for Teachers and Children (MATCH Box) project provides for a two-week intensive treatment of a subject on the elementary school level. Each MATCH Box contains materials, equipment and activities that work together to foster the teaching/learning of the particular subject matter. PADDLE-TO-THE-SEA is a social studies…

The supplemental career education activities are designed for career education concept teaching at the kindergarten level. Concepts are coordinated with units on people, helping, needs, places, learning, rules, and growing. Specific activities involve art, poetry, song, cooking, finger plays, resource people, parental interviews, games,…

The learning module facilitates public cognizance of learning goals and objectives, specified competencies, learning activities, assessment modes, and criteria levels. These modules enable pre- and inservice teachers to achieve specified competencies in teaching reading and language arts. The rationale for the use of the learning module as the…

This is a collection of units prepared by high school mathematics teachers to be used as a "career curriculum" guide. Each unit contains a statement of objectives, a discussion of the content, activity sheets, and exercises. The volume is organized into clusters so that an individual may choose the parts suited to individual needs. Major topics…

This is a volume of teacher-developed units to supplement the textbook in a first-year algebra course. The units consist mainly of statements of objectives and student worksheets with some examples and references to the textbook given as aids. Major topics covered are basic operations with signed rational numbers and with polynomials,…

The overall social studies curriculum for the three- and four-year-olds consists of an aggregate of activities focusing upon several key processes that are useful in understanding the components of human social behavior: socialization, interdependence, social control, and continuity and change. This unit contains activities that focus on the…

This guide was developed as a resource for teachers and students in high schools. Ideally, it will be of major assistance to seniors and their teachers as they explore the possibilities and alternatives open to young people during the years immediately following high school graduation. The three broad goals and objectives of the guide are: 1) to…

This urban studies course, a pilot version, is designed to help high school students understand concerns and problems in contemporary American cities. Viewing the city as a total environment, students delve into the dynamics of a city, relating people to the form of a city, develop a useful concept of the urban complex, and identify urban…

This political and economic study unit is designed to provide students with an understanding of how the stock market works; an examination of the corporate form of business organization; principles of investment; analysis of market action and patterns; types of securities; sources of financial information; and the rationale of investment choices.…

A six-week multidisciplinary energy unit for an inner city middle school in Kentucky is described. This unit is designed to accommodate students with a wide range of reading and math skills. (MDR)

Support of the need for more emphasis on mental arithmetic in the classroom is given. Classroom methods and activities for developing skill in mental arithmetic are included. (MN)

Two computer exercises involving the classification of geometric figures are given. The mathematics required is relatively simple but comes from several areas--synthetic geometry, analytic geometry, and linear algebra. (MN)