Life Experience Unit Guide Developed for Junior High and High School Resource Room Programs

The life experience unit guide, which is intended to be used with emotionally unstable adolescents and which offers selected activities for an integrated language arts, science, and social studies curriculum, is described. Provided for the language arts strand are forms such as sentence completion forms, a feeling checklist, a self evaluation rating scale, and questions for a sociogram. Science activities that center on the human body are given to include comparing temperatures of students eating either cold or hot foods, and demonstrating the need for water in many chemical reactions. Listed for social studies are approximately 30 film strips on topics such as the family, the world of work, and transportation. (DB)