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Ballard, Joy; Mooring, Suazette Reid – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
The need for more sustainable practices is in high demand. Green chemistry discusses practices that would lead to less harmful chemical products ending up in the environment. Herein, we describe an outreach activity that introduces minority high school students to the topic of green chemistry. Three hands-on activities were done to illustrate a…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, High School Students, Minority Group Students, Student Satisfaction
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Schultz, Kelly M.; Snyder, Mark A. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2019
A hands-on educational module was created to illustrate the scope of chemical engineering. Students are taught fundamental concepts that they integrate in a laboratory experience designing and fabricating a 'plant-on-a-chip' microfluidic device capable of continuous processing of reactive flows. Students gain insight into chemical engineering…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, STEM Education, Outreach Programs, Student Recruitment
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Reinhardt, Chris; Thomson, Dan – Journal of Extension, 2015
Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) is a program designed to educate U.S. beef producers on best management practices to ensure production of a safe, wholesome beef product and humane animal care. The program must be sufficiently nimble to rapidly incorporate the demands of an ever-changing food system. Animal Care Training, an online system…
Descriptors: Food, Food Standards, Safety, Safety Education
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Kelley, Jennifer – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2012
As institutions of higher learning rapidly expand their offerings of online, hybrid and other distance learning opportunities for their students, librarians must adapt, adopt and improve information literacy instruction methods to accommodate instructors they may never meet and classes they may never see. Many responses to these challenges, such…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Distance Education, Librarians, Learning Modules
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Ladell-Thomas, Julie – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2012
Although academic librarians have been teaching information literacy online for years, the increasing number of nontraditional students learning online has motivated many librarians to develop Web-based tools that help students independently learn to identify, access, evaluate, and use information resources in the online environment. Adult…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students
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Fowler, John M. – Contemporary Education, 1981
In recognizing the importance of energy conservation to education, the U.S. Office of Environmental Education produced an Instructional Resource Package on environment and energy. In addition to the interdisciplinary packets, fact sheets on energy technologies were developed. Outreach programs were designed to inform teachers about the…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Energy Conservation
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Madihally, Sundararajan V.; Maase, Eric L. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2006
REACH (Reaching Engineering and Architectural Career Heights) is a weeklong summer academy outreach program for high school students interested in engineering, architecture, or technology. Through module-­based instruction, students are introduced to various engineering fields. This report describes one of the modules focused on introducing…
Descriptors: High School Students, Biomedicine, Chemical Engineering, Science Programs
Baskind, Anita – 1981
A campaign was undertaken to disseminate and distribute the self-contained sex-equity kit for secondary school personnel developed in fiscal 1979 as part of Project SEISMIC (Sex Equity in Schools; Modules in Careers). (The developed kit, which consists of a staff development program, a set of curriculum lessons, and a community outreach manual to…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Programs, Conferences, Information Dissemination
Harrington, Lois G., Ed. – 1982
These proceedings contain the texts of 20 reports presented at a conference organized to review and assess the status of the following types of performance/competency-based approaches to the professional development of vocational teachers and administrators: performance-based teacher education (PBTE), competency-based teacher education (CBTE),…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Competency Based Teacher Education, Delivery Systems