GRADES OR AGES: Grade 3. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies: Argentina, the Pampas. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The introductory material includes an explanation and overview of the unit and suggestions for initiating the unit and integrating it with the K-12 social studies program. The main text is presented in four columns: content,…

Using stunts and tumbling as a sample activity, this article contains a guide for curriculum organization that provides for definite progressions from grade to grade and can be utilized at college, secondary, or elementary levels. (NQ)

Public relations curriculum often incorporates professional experience for progressive skill development. In the traditional public relations (PR) campaigns course, students typically research, develop, and implement a strategic campaign for a community organization as the client. Service learning is an effective pedagogical approach for the PR…

Contained within this state science guidelines booklet are numerous resources to aid educational planners and decision makers in developing and selecting science curricula appropriate for grade levels K-12. Within the first section, the purpose, philosophy and a model for a science education program that promotes scientific literacy are provided.…

This publication represents a model for the Natural Science Education Curriculum for grades two through four in Delaware's schools. This guide is meant to serve as a minimal standard for natural science education, but at the same time strives for maximum output of the natural science program. The guide is based on the processes of science…

The archeology of Delaware, for all practical purposes meaning Indian prehistory, is the focus of this set consisting of teacher's and pupil's guides. Intended primarily for use at the fourth grade level, the material can successfully be adapted for use in grades 5 through 8. The teacher's guide is flexible and non-structured, allowing for…

This annotated listing of curriculum materials for Home Economics provides planners, administrators, vocational educators, and others with information as to available curriculum materials developed by the various States. The materials are identified with the instructional titles and codes from the classification system of the Office of Education,…

This program guide for physical education program improvement and development is designed to offer options for organization, program content, resources, teaching methodologies, and evaluation, consistent with efforts of individualizing and humanizing education. Topics considered include: legal mandates and philosophy; public relations;…

Designed to help teachers of automotive services select the body of knowledge and experiences leading to the development of salable skills which might be necessary at various levels of complexity, this guide suggests an alignment of content, with teaching suggestions, for use in developing a vocational program to prepare youth and adults for…

Teacher and author Vivian Paley is highly regarded by parents, educators, and other professionals for her original insights into such seemingly everyday issues as play, story, gender, and how young children think. In "The Classrooms All Young Children Need", Patricia M. Cooper takes a synoptic view of Paley's many books and articles,…

In this analysis of North Carolina high schools the author examines school tracking policies using an amended version of Sorensen's (1970) conceptualization of the organizational dimensions of tracking. Data from curriculum guides in a stratified sample of 92 high schools reveal both consistency and variation in how tracking is implemented at the…

This music curriculum catalog contains a current listing of music education curriculum materials available upon request from state supervisors of music. The catalog provides a compendium of the latest music curriculum materials for music educators involved in planning, writing, revising, or evaluating music curriculum. The catalog contains entries…

This guide is primarily designed to help those who are concerned with improving mathematics education in Georgia schools. The format is intended to make planning a new mathematics curriculum easier at the local level and still leave designers free to develop courses which are best suited for their students. In addition to presenting an outline…

One of a set of six guides for an industrial arts curriculum at the junior high school level, this guide provides the basic foundation to develop a one-semester course based on the following cluster concept: insights into industry and technology. An overview of industry and technology is provided to serve as an integrator or unifier of industry…