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Issues In Our Society: A Middle School Interdisciplinary Curriculum, Matthew L. Bowman
Issues In Our Society: A Middle School Interdisciplinary Curriculum, Matthew L. Bowman
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The project contains a team-taught interdisciplinary curriculum based on current issues in our society. The review ofliterature, which focuses on team teaching at the middle level and the process of implementing an interdisciplinary curriculum, indicates that middle level students need opportunities to discuss and analyze current issues in our society that affect their lives in order to make learning more meaningful. Therefore, the content areas of language arts, math, social studies, and science were structured around three themes dealing with issues such as the environment, space exploration, and cultural diversity. The interdisciplinaiy curriculum was developed for a sixth grade, four-person …
An Honors Suppliment To The Curriculum In American History For West Valley High School Juniors, Nell Caroline Paschen
An Honors Suppliment To The Curriculum In American History For West Valley High School Juniors, Nell Caroline Paschen
Graduate Student Research Papers
In a search for ways of perpetuating essential values in a free society, citizens and educators have come to realize that their greatest resource lies in the talents of young people. Leadership of society must be developed from the excellent minds of students in the schools. This leadership will be nurtured by inducing an insight into human relationships and by giving an understanding of the background of cherished American institutions. This work is based on the conviction that teachers of social studies are conscious of an obligation to fill the needs of gifted students for enrichment in breadth of subject …
The Curriculum And A World Point Of View, Harold E. Barto
The Curriculum And A World Point Of View, Harold E. Barto
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If a spirit of true international friendship is to be inculcated, we must be taught to recognize the achievements of other peoples; be made to realize that their problems are our problems; and, not least of all, be shown that fundamentally we are more alike than different. Teachers are being asked to educate the new generation to the new social order. However, their efforts both by precept and example will be futile so long as they are bound by a curriculum which is too narrow in scope to meet the demands of modern trends.
The Third Grade Conducts A Post Office, Mabel T. Anderson, Amanda Katherine Hebeler
The Third Grade Conducts A Post Office, Mabel T. Anderson, Amanda Katherine Hebeler
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Because our third-grade children were often asked to go to the down-town post office to mail letters or to buy stamps, this group of pupils decided to have a school post office. Group discussion and planning began immediately. While plans were being made, the following problems arose and had to be solved: 1. What supplies shall we need? 2. When can we buy our supplies? 3. Where shall we get the money to pay for these supplies?