The study was conducted to identify the needs and specifications of a STEM Module based on a game approach in teaching science for lower secondary school students. In this study, the needs analysis was carried out on purposively selected science teachers from different schools in the northern district of Kedah, Malaysia. The data was collected…

Open educational resources (OER) can make educational resources widely available to all students and educators for free; however, OER are still untried in many academic programmes in higher education. This article reports a case of adoption of an open access textbook for an introductory information systems course and discusses the process and…

The Association of American Geographers (AAG), through its Center for Global Geography Education (CGGE) project, recently published a collection of online educational resources examining important geographic issues affecting people, places, and environments in India. The resources were created by a delegation of high school teachers and academic…

An educational resource on water and health, using an approach focused on health education and environmental health education, was developed to help teachers in the classroom. The implementation of health education programs in French primary schools is explained. Three specific objectives were identified, targeting 3rd, 4th, and 5th year pupils:…

This paper describes the framework for the development of OER-based learning materials "TCC121/05 Programming Fundamentals with Java" for ODL learners in Wawasan Open University (WOU) using three main development phases mainly: creation, evaluation and production phases. The proposed framework has further been tested on ODL learners to…

This Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) approved listing of essential career education material includes instructional material for grade levels K-12 in four categories: (1) packaged programs, (2) kits, (3) filmstrips, and (4) printed materials. Each category is subdivided by publishers, which are listed in alphabetical order. In…

The inservice materials described in this monograph are designed for regular classroom teachers who are working with mainstreamed children in elementary and secondary school classrooms. The first section contains abstracts of six series of inservice materials: (1) "I'm a Lot Like You"; (2) "Educating Students in the Least Restrictive Environment";…

Agrees with Alberts and Tuomi about the need for an experiential approach to science instruction but argues that science kits are too easily used in ways that do not significantly advance students' skills in problem solving and critical evaluation and that the kits too often seem to relieve the teachers from responsibility for their own continuing…

This catalog lists resource materials for energy and environmental education which are available to Minnesota secondary teachers. The listings include both curricular resources with lesson plans and objectives, and noncurricular resources such as books, pamphlets, posters, audiovisual resources, and facilities for environmental education. The…

Designed to assist teachers in the incorporation of global education and the development of prototype materials to introduce a global component into the classroom, this resource directory includes extensive lesson plan designs for elementary, middle, and secondary schools. A bibliography is provided for each section as well as lists of other…

This module is designed to assist teacher educators, prospective teachers, and practitioners to become more familiar with the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). It is oriented toward the solution of educational problems and demonstrates how to use ERIC for this purpose. It consists of both an instructor-directed learning unit and an…

All materials in the Upper Mississippi River ECO-Center bibliography are classified by Dewey Decimal number, so the listings for each section are organized in ascending order by Dewey number, and within Dewey classification, are roughly alphabetical by author. The bibliography includes some 400 citations with sections on books, curriculum aids,…

This text consisting of eight learning activities packages (LAP's) was developed during the California Women Entrepreneurs Project for use in a course designed to help women entrepreneurs learn how to start their own small business. The LAP's included here are self-paced, student-centered modules which take the learner step by step through the…

This curriculum guide presents strategies for teaching a unit on the Middle East conflict including a rationale, performance objectives, background information, and questions. Worksheets contain simulations, poetry, and news stories which are used to teach the origins of and issues concerning the conflict. A simulation of the 1897 Zionist Congress…

These materials are designed as four modules: geography, foods, the kitchen, and culture and are to be used singly or jointly as a unit on Japanese food and culture. Common ingredients of Japanese food, nutritional information, methods of preparation, and illustrations of utensils and eating implements are given in conjunction with cultural…