This applied research project investigates the use of culturally responsive teaching as a means of increasing students' knowledge and understanding in social studies, and provides a culturally responsive unit incorporating primary sources on the Japan . . .

A study was conducted to determine the effects of writing to help increase conceptual understanding of science concepts. Twenty boys and twenty girls from a fifth grade science class participated in the study for eight weeks. The ethnicities represent . . .

The major purposes of the writer of this thesis were to review the literature regarding reading and academic achievement scores of Mexican-American children in the southwestern United States and to develop original Mexican-American cultural and histor . . .

The purpose of this paper is to examine how arts integration in the STEM disciplines can become a vehicle for engaging students in a deeper understanding of STEM curricula. There is much discussion in the educational world that the acronym STEM should . . .

Being a successful reader is a challenge that many students face today. Although teachers utilize many strategies, the lack of sight words, also known as high frequency words (HFW), limits their reading skill. HFW words must become automatic as they a . . .

STEM education is a term that is being heard more and more in schools nowadays. STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and math. Through STEM education students are able to see the purpose of learning certain skills in all the differ . . .

In 1972 the A. E. Wright Middle School, Las Virgenes Unified School District received an NDEA grant and organized a reading laboratory equipped with a wide range of multi-media instructional materials. The program adopted was one of individualized ins . . .

The purpose of this project was to review the related literature on Environmental Education and then develop a teacher resource unit for 5th and 6th Grades based on the recommendations of the literature. From the review of the literature, Environmenta . . .

In this graduate project, the strategies and resources for using drawing as a prewriting strategy are presented. While many students struggle with writing coherent stories, drawing as a prewriting strategy improves students' writing performance. Follo . . .

The purpose of this study was to review the available literature pertaining to listening, in order: 1) to ascertain the need for teaching listening skills; 2) to determine the relationships between listening skills and the factors of sex, age, socio-e . . .