GRADES OR AGES: Grade 9. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies: political parties and elections. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The place of the unit in the social studies K-12 program is explained with suggested ways of initiating the unit. The content of the unit is presented in four columns: content, teacher direction, learning activities, and…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 5. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into five units: "Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century New England,""The Constitution,""Westward Expansion,""Two Latin American Countries," and "Slavery in America." It is printed and staple bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND…

The resource guide was designed to assist school administrators, classroom teachers, and librarians in developing and enriching an Iowa history program. In the first section, twelve sources of books, pamphlets, and folders available from various commissions, historical societies, The House of Representatives, Senate, and others are listed.…

Questions as to whether measurement can provide a universally applicable set of criteria for making value judgments in the social sciences are raised. Four assumptions about education, experience, reality, and value formation were identified to provide a fuller reference point for social science educators when they are viewing current standardized…

The purpose was to determine whether children in classrooms would manifest cognitive behavior described by Piaget for their developmental stage. First, fourth, and eighth grade classes were selected as representative of Piaget's preoperational, concrete, and formal stages respectively. Twelve classes at each grade level (six social studies and six…

The aim of this newsletter, issued six times a year, is to help social studies teachers and supervisors define issues or questions concerning social studies program planning and suggest directions for dealing with issues. Suppositions for the teacher concerning their instructional programs are offered, followed by suggestions to consider in each…

High school psychology cannot be considered the offspring of the American Psychological Association (APA) or of legitimate psychology in the United States. Although it originally discouraged the pre-college teaching of psychology, the APA now backs the venture. Improving the teaching of psychology at the high school level began around 1960 and…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 9. SUBJECT MATTER: United States history. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The conceptual approach forms the basis for each of four sections: Defining and Implementing a Conceptual Approach to Teaching Social Studies; Social Studies Skills To Be Developed and Reinforced by the Learner; Classroom Curriculum Planning; and…

A rationale for the study of Canada by Americans is advocated in this paper. Among the justifications for the study are: our common geographical environment; our need to comparatively understand the cultural, economic, political, and social differences and similarities of the two countries; the part Canada can play in serving as a laboratory for…

Social studies curricula should be based on a provincial-universal principle of maintaining a continuous interaction between the local community and the world community. It is suggested here that those who are already doing this can contribute by offering suggestions to others trying to implement the world principle in their classrooms. Those who…

GRADES OR AGES: Senior high school. SUBJECT MATTER: World history. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide covers ten units: 1) Perspective--Man in Pre-historic and Ancient Times; 2) Feudalism and the Church in the Middle Ages; 3) Renaissance and Reformation; 4) The Emergence of Nationalism--Its Cause and Effects; 5) Revolutions of Rising…

Several aspects of the curriculum problem are considered here. The first, Scope of Population Study, attempts to provide a general delimitation of the field by identifying overlapping and related areas of study. A second aspect, Goals of Population Study, identifies three general goals: 1) development of an understanding of the significance of…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 8. SUBJECT MATTER: Social Studies--You and Man in the Western World. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide contains five units: 1) cultural orientation; 2) social studies dimensions in Western Europe; 3) social studies dimensions in Eastern Europe and Soviet Union; 4) social studies dimensions in Latin America; and…

GRADES OR AGES: High school. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies, comparative government. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into nine units, each with introductory material including general objectives, skills, and attitudes, and with the main material set out in three columns--objectives, activities, and instructional…

RESEARCH REPORTED HERE WAS DESIGNED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF INDUCTIVE, DEDUCTIVE, AND INTUITIVE APPROACHES FOR TEACHING SELECTED GEOGRAPHIC CONCEPTS. THE EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED IN A CULTURALLY ADVANTAGED PRIMARY SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT USING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND A CRITERION PRETEST AND POST-TEST. THE MATERIALS AND TESTS WERE DEVELOPED…