Browsing by Author "Raymond, Ernest W."

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    Environmental approach - primary science curriculum Belize
    (International Council of Associations for Science Education, 1979) Raymond, Ernest W.; Lancaster, Colin M.
    One of the goals of the Rural Education and Agriculture Project (REAP) was to produce a curriculum that integrates rural environmental knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the existing curriculum to make it more relevant. Examples from Units of Activities found in Curriculum Guides at the Infant, Junior, and Senior Primary levels are given, followed by a description of science-related activities that can be found in the REAP curriculum
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    Environmental approach to primary science curricula - experience of an integrated day
    (Caribbean Regional Science Project, 1978) Raymond, Ernest W.;
    The Rural Education and Agriculture Project (REAP) in Belize is an attempt to make rural primary education more relevant to the needs and life experience of children. One of its goals is to produce a curriculum that integrates rural environmental knowledge, skills, and attitudes into existing curricula. REAP was organized and developed at a seminar/workshop by teachers of project schools in July 1977. Areas of study identified were: soils, plants, animals, weather, land/water, agricultural practices, village study, ecology and health/nutrition. Science-related activities in each area of study are described