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Thacher, Peter S. – Social Education, 1985
Preserving and enhancing the quality of the human environment requires holistic approaches to problems. Educators should encourage multi-disciplinary thought in the classroom. One area that has great potential for strengthening the integrative aspects of education is geography. (RM)
Descriptors: Coping, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography Instruction
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Berne, Richard C.; Judy, John M. – Social Education, 1985
Global Trends Workshops for secondary science and social studies teachers and supervisors conducted collaboratively by the Center for Environmental/Energy Education and the Tennessee Valley Authority's Environmental/Energy Education Program are described. The workshops helped teachers learn how to merge global trends with local concerns. (RM)
Descriptors: Community Problems, Environmental Education, Global Approach, Local Issues
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Charles, Cheryl – Social Education, 1985
How elementary and secondary social studies teachers can use nature--plants, animals, habitats, and environments--to provide students with a global perspective is discussed. An interdisciplinary science, language arts, and social studies unit entitled "Microtrek Scavenger Hunt" for use in grades four through six is presented, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Global Approach, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Hahn, Carole L. – Social Education, 1985
In 1976 Richard Gross surveyed state social studies specialists and local supervisors to determine the status of the social studies. To determine whether the generalizations from his study are still applicable today, a questionnaire was sent to Council of State Social Studies Specialists. Results of the two studies are compared. (RM)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development
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Henk, William A.; Helfeldt, John P. – Social Education, 1985
The Group Reading Inventory (GRI) is a reading evaluation tool that can survey an entire class of students at the same time. A testing sequence using GRI that allows teachers to identify the functional reading levels of most students in three short examination sessions is presented. (RM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
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White, Charles S. – Social Education, 1985
A file management computer program that allows secondary social studies students to store information on cards on a floppy disk and to retrieve all or parts of the data as needed is described. The program will help students develop information-processing skills in locating, organizing, interpreting, and presenting social data. (RM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Information Processing, Instructional Materials
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Keetz, Frank – Social Education, 1985
In this learning activity senior high social studies students examine and discuss specific parts of the Soviet Constitution and learn that there is often a big difference between theory and reality. (RM)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Comparative Analysis, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law
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Lankiewicz, Donald – Social Education, 1985
Senior high social studies students discuss how people who lived during the Great Depression viewed the future and then, coming back to the present, predict how 13 new industrial inventions of today may affect life a hundred years from now. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Futures (of Society), High Schools, Learning Activities
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Donlan, Dan – Social Education, 1985
History textbooks usually read like dictionaries and encyclopedias--compact, fact-filled, and dry. To help senior high school students get meaning from this kind of text, teachers can use graphic techniques to preview the text, to guide students during reading, and to review the text after the students have read it. (RM)
Descriptors: High Schools, History Instruction, History Textbooks, Instructional Improvement
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Engle, Shirley H. – Social Education, 1985
Despite all the technology at educators' disposal, the field of social studies is more uncertain of its goals and more intellectually confused than ever before. The failure to deal in a rigorous and uncluttered way with current social problems is one of the most unconscionable defects in the social studies today. (RM)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Problems, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
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Beyer, Barry K., Ed. – Social Education, 1985
Social studies teachers have long accepted critical thinking as an important and desirable outcome of instruction. However, they have accepted critical thinking in principle without bothering to define the term precisely or to do much by way of direct instruction to see that this goal is achieved. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Definitions, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
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Beyer, Barry K. – Social Education, 1985
Developing an accurate, commonly accepted definition of critical thinking is absolutely essential. This article proposes and discusses such a definition. Critical thinking is defined as the process of determining the authenticity, accuracy, and worth of information or knowledge claims. It consists of a number of discrete skills. (RM)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Definitions, Educational History, Educational Needs
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McFarland, Mary A. – Social Education, 1985
Two strategies for teaching elementary students to distinguish relevant from irrelevant material are described. The word associates strategy provides students instruction in writing or stating a generalization that expresses the criteria for relevance. The defending a point of view strategy provides instruction in developing relevant arguments to…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Education, Generalization, Learning Activities
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O'Reilly, Kevin – Social Education, 1985
U.S. history is an ideal subject in which to inculcate skepticism and to teach critical thinking skills. High school students who read and analyze rival interpretations of history come to expect that there is more than one viewpoint to most historical topics. Sample lessons are presented. (RM)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, High Schools, Historiography, Learning Activities
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Munro, George; Slater, Allen – Social Education, 1985
A detailed explanation of a strategy for teaching any critical thinking skill is presented. The skill of distinguishing between statements of fact and opinion is used to illustrate the steps necessary to plan for teaching critical thinking. (RM)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Models