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Milne, Robert – Primary Science, 2016
In recent years, many schools have taken up food gardening. This is a welcome trend, but it has had to be conducted as an extracurricular activity, often with the help of, or run by, parents and grandparents. Growing vegetables and fruit, if it is to be done well, is a complex activity. The potential good outcomes for health, learning, and…
Descriptors: Gardening, Horticulture, Food, Elementary Education
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Morton, James P.; Doran, Dominic A.; MacLaren, Don P. M. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2008
The present study represents a preliminary investigation designed to identify common misconceptions in students' understanding of physiological and biochemical topics within the academic domain of sport and exercise sciences. A specifically designed misconception inventory (consisting of 10 multiple-choice questions) was administered to a cohort…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Undergraduate Students, Exercise Physiology, Biochemistry
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Willmott, Chris – Bioscience Education e-Journal, 2007
In recent years academics have commonly bemoaned the lack of essay-writing ability exhibited by their students. Whether or not the halcyon era in which undergraduates routinely knew how to construct a persuasive essay ever truly existed, it is certainly the case that contemporary students can benefit from advice on preparation of a long-format…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Essays, Student Evaluation, Teaching Methods
Spiegel, Marina; Sunderland, Helen – 1999
This book sets out to adapt and use some of the practical approaches of genre theory to the teaching of writing to English as a Second or Other Language (ESOL) and Basic Skills students in Britain. The book has 9 units exploring different types of text or genres, descriptions of people, descriptions of places, personal narratives, folk stories,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Check Lists, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques