The resource guide is structured for Arizona history and social studies teachers as an aid in planning classroom activities for kindergarten through grade 12. Developed as part of the Bicentennial program, the guide focuses on the themes of heritage, festival, and horizons. The heritage section furnishes a historical perspective for organizing…

Five schools in northeastern Ohio were chosen to participate in this environmental education project. Students were assigned a natural area in their community to study in detail. This workbook is designed for recording data collected during the year long project. The topics to be studied are organized according to the month that they will be done,…

As a field learning experience, 14 students at College of the Mainland (Texas) examined the structure and components of community leadership in Texas City, Texas. The students were divided into two groups, under the direction of a humanities staff member. The first group, using the reputational study technique, asked community residents to…

This book gives a general explanation of, and information about, the laws and how they work, and is written very simply and clearly with numerous examples and illustrations. It was written by students and staff in the eighth-grade social studies class of Miles City Junior High School, Montana, with the assistance and advice of members of the…

Prepared as an aid to teachers, the document contains two parts intended to help correlate instruction of industrial arts at the elementary level with the recommended curriculum content in the Wisconsin Guide to Local Curriculum Improvement in Industrial Education, K-12. Pertaining to field objectives 1-4 in the guide, Industry for the Elementary…

The following description sets forth the aims and methodology of a project in Arkansas dialect studies; summarizes the preliminary work being carried on; and outlines the future course of the study. The urgency of the need for such research is pointed out by Moreland: The South is a "formerly distinctive region that is fast losing its…

To justify the use of a particular teaching method it should be followed up with a measurement of student achievement. Thus, the primary objective of this study was to determine whether the project method of instruction is accomplishing its task of training young men and women to enter the world of work without the benefit of first hand experience…

The compilation of this annotated bibliography of selected materials was undertaken to provide a thorough review of the literature concerning the cooperative and project methods of instruction in the field of distributive education to be used in "A Pilot Program Comparing Cooperative and Project Methods of Teaching Distributive Education" (ED 016…

Designed as a possible 1-semester university course outline, this manual describes a training program for "Campus-Community Organizers" (CCO). The program enables college students to establish a liaison with poor communities in order to find ways in which the vast financial and technical resources of universities can become more…

The Student Health Projects (SHPs) were conceived more than 3 years ago by students in the health sciences as a primary step in their efforts to enhance the quality of their educational experience. The Chicago Student Health Project was devised, organized, and directed by members of the Student Health Organization. The format of this report is as…

A method to effectively organize new courses of instruction or reorganize existing courses of instruction is readily adaptable to most subject areas and can be developed with limited funding. The four modes of the multi-mode course are large group assemblies, small group discussion sessions, self-instructional learning laboratories, and individual…

The Milwaukee Public Schools, upon the completion of the second year of their environmental education project, report the evaluation of the eight component parts that make up the project. The components are: Teacher Leadership Workshop; Inservice Workshops; Curriculum Development Workshop; Open-End Grant Program; Field Trips Pilot Project; Student…

This document is both an interim evaluation report and application for the continued funding of the Milwaukee Public Schools' environmental education program. The project is a comprehensive environmental education program which has developed into the Master Plan for Environmental Education intended to prevade the K-12 curriculum. The evaluation…

This paper advocates the use of independent research projects as a practical means of individualizing science instruction within the framework of a traditional school program. The science program at Model Laboratory School, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky, is discussed as an example of independent study being an integral part of…

The availability of 72 inexpensive (50 cents each) still cameras and 200 rolls of film (19 cents per roll) to 70 English teachers in Frederick County, Maryland, has provided the means of stimulating students to expand their understanding of the environment and to sharpen their communicative talents. Projects undertaken include the students' use of…