This catalog, consisting of three major sections, is intended primarily for teachers and administrators in Illinois but is also designed to be applicable to educators in other states. The first section (in narrative form) focuses on ideas for using community-based resources, offers guidelines for selecting career education materials, and describes…

This resource guide provides teachers of grades K-3 with ideas and materials to integrate agricultural concepts into classroom activities. The guide is organized into six categories: math, science, language arts, social studies, fine arts, and health/nutrition/safety. Each of the categories contains 10 lessons organized in the following topic…

This resource guide provides teachers of grades 4-6 with ideas and materials to integrate agricultural concepts into classroom activities. The guide is organized into six categories: math, science, language arts, social studies, fine arts, and health/nutrition/safety. Each category contains 10 lessons organized in the following topic order:…

This Public Service Practicum Curriculum Guide is intended to assist social science and occupational teachers in the areas of public service and related occupations to develop, implement, and operate an internship program. Designed for use in all schools in rural, suburban, or city settings, this guide is based on a program developed in Elk Grove…

This curriculum guide is one of five developed as part of the Illinois Plan for Business, Marketing, and Management Education for use in 9th and 10th grades. The curriculum guide includes teacher and student activities that can be implemented in many ways. Information on how to integrate the activity objectives of the Illinois Plan into the State…

This guide is specifically designed to accompany materials developed for occupational orientation (particularly in Illinois) in the following five cluster areas: Applied biological and agricultural occupations; personal and public service occupations; health occupations; business, marketing, and management occupations; and industrial oriented…

The second of a three-volume set, this handbook provides direction to teachers of grades 4-6 for integrating occupational information with the academic subjects of social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science. Following a section on bulletin board ideas, separate subject sections present teacher and student directed activities which…

The first of a three-volume set, this handbook provides direction to K-3 educators for integrating occupational information with the academic subjects of social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science. Following a section on bulletin board ideas, separate subject sections present teacher and student directed activities which correspond…

The third of a three-volume set, this handbook provides direction to teachers of grades 7 and 8 for integrating occupational information with the academic subjects of social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science. Following a section on bulletin board ideas, separate subject sections present teacher and student directed activities which…

This competency-based secondary learning guide on managing home and work responsibilities is part of a series that are adaptations of guides developed for adult consumer and homemaking education programs. The guides provide students with experiences that help them learn to do the following: make decisions; use creative approaches to solve…