Zoonoses, or diseases that can be transferred between humans and animals, such as variant swine influenza, avian influenza A viruses, and coronaviruses, comprise a large percentage of all newly identified and existing infectious diseases (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017). As a result, there is an ever-growing need for a One Health…

This description of the video film production program of the Tucson Public Library focuses on the Sonoran Heritage Learning Library Programs and Resources project and its associated learning packets. The complexities of such a project and its funding are explained, and advice to other libraries is provided. (RAA)

The development and validation of professional development resource materials for teachers by the National Council on Measurement in Education and associated professional groups is described. The developed module contains a context-orienting vignette, instruction, practice exercises, hands-on experiences, small group topics, and homework problems.…

Presents nine entries from the ERIC database focusing on teacher-developed resources. Includes works on teaching methods, museum resources, a learning module on racism, one on the Holocaust, and an activity book on the Bill of Rights. Explains how to obtain the materials. (DK)

Provides fully developed library media activities designed to be used in connection with specific curriculum units, including health, reading and language arts, and social studies. For each activity, the objectives of the exercise, resources, instructional roles of librarians and teachers, procedures involved, evaluation, and follow-up activities…

Describes a competency-based, modular laboratory course emphasizing the synthesis and characterization of polymers and directed toward senior undergraduate and/or first-year graduate students in science and engineering. One module, free-radical polymerization kinetics by dilatometry, is included as a sample. (CS)

The federal Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) grant program produced a variety of tools, strategies and resources which different grantee sites designed for educating preservice teachers on the integration of technology in K-12 classrooms. These tools, strategies and resources are referred to as knowledge capture artifacts,…

Provides fully developed library media activities designed to be used in connection with specific curriculum units, including art, health, reading and language arts, science, and social studies. For each activity, the objective of the exercise, resources, instructional roles of librarians and teachers, procedures involved, evaluation, and…

Provides fully developed library media activities for use by elementary school students with curriculum units on art, health, reading and language arts, science, and social studies. For each activity, the objectives of the exercise, appropriate grade levels, resources, instructional roles of librarians and teachers, procedures involved, and…

Discusses various aspects of the human sciences program, including its modular format, activity-centered orientation, personalized approach, interdisciplinary nature, and flexibility in packaging. Descriptions are made for four modules within the program. (CS)

Because working nurses found it impossible to take time off to become professionally qualified, Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology (Scotland) converted its conventionally taught course into a distance course with six self-contained modules, each covering two or three subject areas and lasting four or five weeks. Describes the conversion…

Describes a course in information research in which students use a package of representative information sources to identify seminal works in a given field of inquiry. The materials contained in the package and specific procedures followed by students are described, and some informal evaluation of the process is provided. (CLB)

Provides fully developed library media activities designed to be used in connection with specific curriculum units, including music, reading and language arts, science, and social studies. For each activity, the objectives of the exercise, resources, instructional roles of librarians and teachers, procedures involved, and evaluation and follow-up…

Provides fully developed library media activities designed to be used in connection with specific curriculum units, including music, reading and language arts, science, and social studies. For each activity, the objectives of the exercise, resources required, instructional roles of librarians and teachers, procedures involved, evaluation, and…

Provides fully developed library media activities designed to be used in connection with specific curriculum units, including physical education, reading and language arts, and science. For each activity, the objectives of the exercise, resources, instructional roles of librarians and teachers, procedures involved, evaluation, and follow-up…