Space Based Astronomy
This NASA educator guide tells the story of why it is important to observe celestial objects from outer space and how to study the entire electromagnetic spectrum. It features a set of hands-on activities and demonstrations which can be performed by teachers to reinforce the concept that Earth's atmosphere ...
Event-Based Science: Remote-Sensing Activities
Event-Based Science (EBS): Remote-Sensing Activities enable middle school students to use remotely-sensed data- as they tackle the real-world problems and tasks found in existing EBS modules. Remotely-sensed data are employed as an integral part of both the presentation of Earth system science concepts, ...
Perspectives on Case-based Multimedia Web Projects in Science
This article discusses the merits of case-based learning in an interactive online environment. Researchers used both qualitative and quantitative research over a 2-year period to examine the learning that occurred in a high school context when students were engaged in a case-based multimedia project. ...
Delivering values - foundations for a new era? - Ashridge Journal Article
In this article Roger suggests that current financial and economic crises have resulted from rewarding people who deliver profit for organisations more highly than those who deliver profits and values. What does this mean for people faced with the challenge of leading organisations into a new era?
Curtis--Performance Based Sanitation
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New Challenges for the White House : Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
A panel of experts discusses the future possibilities and challenges for the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships as President Obama seeks to reconfigure the Office's mission.
Linux-based wireless infrastructure
An overview of the different roles in a network that can be filled with a Linux computer. Brief run-throughs of configuration and example software packages for each role.
Faith Complex: Jacqui Salmon on White House Faith-Based Initiatives
Jacqui Salmon, religion reporter at The Washington Post, talks with host Jacques Berlinerblau about the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Initiatives.
Social and Behavioral Foundations of Primary Health Care
Social and Behavioral Foundations of Primary Health Care aims at providing you with the knowledge and skills needed to diagnose (understand) community, individual, and organizational behaviors and change processes in developing countries and in cross-cultural settings as a foundation for planning culturally appropriate primary health care (PHC) in the context of the ecological model of health behavior.
Hanushek on Test-based Accountability, Federal Funding, and School Finance
Eric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the current state of education and education policy. Hanushek summarizes the impact of No Child Left Behind and the current state of the charter school movement. Along the way, he and Roberts discuss the role of testing as a way of measuring achievement. The conversation concludes with a discussion of school finance, the role of the court system, and suggestions for improving finance to create b
Talk: "Google's success is based on trust," says Ken Auletta
At a Shorenstein Center talk, the New Yorker columnist described a landscape where "engineer is king" and "central to Google's success"
UFOs: The Evidence in Detail
In his second lecture on UFOs, Donderi reviews the UFO evidence in detail and outlines the relationship between the evidence and the psychology of perception, motivation and belief.
Inquiry Based Learning: Tangrams
Students will use tangrams to compose and decompose shapes.
Inquiry or Problem Based Learning Lesson
You are an up and coming scientist determined to help find the best alternative fuel. You need to choose an alternative fuel from the list provided, research your choice using the links and prepare a report for your local government about the new fuel source.
Texas Tech Researchers Find No Evidence of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in "Good Morning America" Samples
After receiving a shipment of Louisiana seafood samples collected by a reporter with "Good Morning America," researchers at Texas Tech University found no evidence of petroleum hydrocarbons.
Though these samples were clean, the sample size was small and more research is necessary before the full picture can be seen, said Ron Kendall, director of The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH).
WBAA: Problem-based learning
WBAA is marking the 50th anniversary of Purdue University Press with a series of interviews with authors and journal editors who have contributed to its success. Editor Peg Ertmer discusses "The Journal of Interdisciplinary Problem-based Learning." Find more on the WBAA-Purdue University Press series at:
http://www.purdue.edu/wbaa/inside_wbaa/pupress.shtml
Evidence Based Management Library Guide
An online library guide created for BUS1036FS Evidence Based Management (EBM). Contains presentations which will help students find a book in UCT Libraries, find a specific journal article in UCT Libraries, find a journal article in UCT Libraries, access library resources off campus, find newspaper articles in UCT Libraries, access databases at UCT Libraries. Image by stevelyon shared under a CC BYNCSA 2.0 license.
Faith-Based Socially Responsible Investing: (with Seamus P. Finn)
Rev. Seamus P. Finn OMI addresses the implications of the global financial and economic crisis in a lecture at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.
Episode 104: Evidence-based early childhood education: the Abecedarian approach Early childhood educator Dr Joe Sparling discusses the Abecederian method, an evidence-based approach to improving learning environments for the very young. With host Jennifer Cook. Dr Joseph Sparling - Talk: "Google's success is based on trust," says Ken Auletta
At a Shorenstein Center talk, the New Yorker columnist described a landscape where "engineer is king" and "central to Google's success"
