This home economics guide, for use at the secondary level, is one of a series of guides, K-12, that were developed by teachers to help introduce environmental education into the total curriculum. The guides are supplementary in design, containing a series of episodes that develop a sense of family and personal responsibility toward the environment…

This guide is a collection of supplemental units in environmental activities for integration into home economics curricula. Units are organized according to concepts and grade level (7-12) involved. Materials include resource listings, newspaper references, transparency masters, and suggested learning experiences. This work was prepared under an…

This booklet on economics is one of a series in environmental education for grades K-12. The activities in this booklet are concerned with the relationship of the standard of living to the level of technology and economic system developed by a society. The role of economics in determining environmental quality is also assessed. Three basic…

The Cranston Secondary School Curriculum Guide (7-9) for Home Economics is intended to serve as a resource for teachers, students, department chairman, guidance personnel, curriculum planners, and others involved in present or future curriculum planning. At least one broadly stated major objective is provided for each section, encompassing the…

This booklet on economics is one in a series on environmental education for grades K-12. The activities explore economic systems, levels of benefits, and the use of the cost/benefit equation to assess the value of technology in modifying the environmental quality. Four basic behavioral objectives are developed with subject areas and activities.…

The Cranston Secondary School Curriculum Guide (10-12) for Home Economics is intended to serve as a resource for teachers, students, department chairman, guidance personnel, curriculum planners, and others involved in present or future curriculum planning. At least one broadly stated major objective is provided for each section, encompassing the…

The Career Exploration for Elementary Children (CEC) project is a 3-year curriculum development effort begun in 1972 at the Perrysburgh, Ohio, Elm Street Elementary School. The three major desired outcomes of the project are: (1) development of a curriculum model for career exploration at the elementary school level, (2) the development of an…

This publication is one in a series of three energy-related units selected from the "Environment and the Quality of Life" environmental education series. It contains numerous student learning activities for various grade levels, based on a number of behavioral objectives. Each activity provides the purpose, suitable grade level, related…

This guide provides a framework that may be used by local science curriculum developers to produce units of study, each representing a process of science applied to one of the conceptual schemes of science within one of the major categories of science. Examples of variants, (at ten levels of sophistication), of the 18 major concepts which result…

This position paper argues that education should be planned, designed, operationalized, and continuously modified to serve effectively the defined human and educational needs of a rapidly changing world. It focuses on emerging contemporary societal changes impacting learning theory, curriculum, and teaching methodology; and it outlines the…

The Cooperative Work-Learn Conservation and Natural Resource-Use Program was undertaken to organize and conduct a summer program in conservation education for junior high school students, provide conservation in-service activities for local teachers, and to develop a K-12 conservation education curriculum guide. Following a brief review of the…

The document provides a means of organizing the career education learner outcomes for Texas students into a scope and sequence to be used as a framework for continued development of learner activities. The 177 learner outcomes (objectives) are presented in the following nine categories: career planning and decision making, career and occupational…

Representing an initial effort in activity construction, this booklet of environmental education activities was developed by teachers attending a 1972 summer workshop of the Menomonie, Wisconsin, School District titled K-12 Environmental Education Program. The activities cover a range of subject areas--biology, science, social studies, language…

The purpose of this project was to develop recommendations and plans for program, personnel, and facilities for a new Horace Mann Center for the Deaf as a replacement for and an expansion of the present school. The project staff's initial proposal took into account the existing background, programs, and needs of the deaf in Massachusetts. The…

The environmental education activities presented in this curriculum guide are experimental in nature and, therefore, it is suggested they be developed in the following sequence: exploration, discussion, and application. Also, the three types of activities should incorporate experiences which are direct, simulated, audio-visual, visual, audio, and…