This handbook, based on the author's experience of supervising the English practice-classes of trainee teachers, was originally compiled for the specific use of students at the National University of Trujillo, Peru, and consists of a list of pointers embracing the most prevalent of trainees' shortcomings observed over a period of years at all…

This report describes the primary and secondary objectives of the nursery school project and the methods and procedures used in the program. Demographic information is supplied for the 30 3- and 4-year-olds who were enrolled. The schedule and tentative lesson plans emphasize free choice activities, group time, and outdoor play. Planning and…

A research study investigated the effects on student performance and attitude of three different strategies for selecting lessons in a course in computer programing presented by computer. Sixty college students were randomly assigned to the strategies of student selection of lessons, program selection in the light of the student's past…

The environment lesson plans in this packet are designed to take an in-depth look at different components of the environment. The plans were developed with the assistance of specialists in educational processes and educators, students, and resource-agency people for whom they are designed. They have been field-tested in environmental education…

Presented in this teacher's guide for grades 9-12 are lesson plans and ideas for integrating business education (general business, typing, shorthand, clerical and secretarial practice, and bookkeeping) and environmental education. Each lesson originates with a fundamental concept pertaining to the environment and states, in addition, its…

Presented in this teacher's guide for beginning, intermediate, and advanced grades are lesson plans and ideas for integrating home economics (family living, child development, family consumer economics, family housing and interiors, family foods and nutrition, and family clothing and textiles) and environmental education. Each lesson originates…

Presented in this teacher's guide for grades 7-12 are lesson plans and ideas for integrating industrial arts (drafting, woodworking, and metals) and environmental education. Each lesson originates with a fundamental concept pertaining to the environment and states, in addition, its discipline area, subject area, and problem orientation. Following…

Presented in this teacher's guide for grades 7-12 are lessons plans and ideas for integrating industrial arts (power mechanics, graphic arts, plastics, and electricity/electronics) and environmental education. Each lesson originates with a fundamental concept pertaining to the environment and states, in addition, its discipline area, subject area,…

As one of the units on Native Americans developed by public school teachers enrolled in a University of Minnesota extension course on American Indian education, this grade-6 unit has as its overall objective the sensitization of the class to the cultural values of the Chippewa and Sioux residents of Minnesota reservations as contrasted to…

Presented in these 12 teacher's guides for grades 1-12 are lesson plans and ideas for integrating social studies and environmental education. Each lesson originates with a fundamental concept pertaining to the environment and states, in addition, its discipline area, subject area, and problem orientation. Following this, behavioral objectives and…

Presented in these 13 teacher's guides for grades K-12 are lesson plans and ideas for integrating science and environmental education. Each lesson originates with a fundamental concept pertaining to the environment and states, in addition, its discipline area, subject area, and problem orientation. Following this, behavioral objectives and…

Presented in these 13 teacher's guides for grades K-12 are lesson plans and ideas for integrating language arts and environmental education. Each lesson originates with a fundamental concept pertaining to the environment and states, in addition, its discipline area, subject area, and problem orientation. Following this, behavioral objectives and…

The rapid growth of educational research and development in America has widened the gap between average classroom practice and "best available" validated practices resulting from research and development at educational laboratories, universities, and school-based practice improvement projects. The extension agent system was chosen to change the…

An outdoor education workshop, initiated at the request of teachers in the Bear Creek Watershed area (Alabama), was conducted through a cooperative effort of local agencies and offices of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The purpose of the workshop was to demonstrate to the teachers how the outdoors can be utilized to introduce, strengthen, and…

Lesson plans, developed by teachers in an environmental education workshop, are compiled in this booklet. Curriculum areas covered by the plans include science, language arts, mathematics, social studies, art, recreation, and health. In general they specify: subject category, contributor's name, title of activity, grade level, major concept,…