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National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 2000
This CD-ROM contains a separate electronic codebook for each of the following National Center for Education Statistics data sets: (1) B94, Baccalaureate and Beyond 1993-94 (restricted); (2) B97, Baccalaureate and Beyond 1993-97 (restricted); (3) BP4, Beginning Postsecondary Students 1990-94 (restricted); (4) FAC, 1992-93 National Student of…
Descriptors: Coding, Electronic Text, National Surveys, Optical Data Disks
2002
This CD-ROM offers 140 different stretches in full-motion video sequences. It focuses on the proper techniques for overall physical fitness, injury prevention and rehabilitation, and 23 different sports (e.g., golf, running, soccer, skiing, climbing, football, and baseball). Topics include stretching for sports; stretching awareness and education…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Injuries, Optical Data Disks, Physical Fitness
Harding, Juliana M.; Mann, Roger; Clark, Vicki P. – 1999
This CD-ROM, Oyster Reef Communities in the Chesapeake Bay, describes oyster reefs, reef communities, and their roles in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Detailed descriptions of scientific research methods and techniques used to monitor and describe oyster reef communities as well as applications of the resulting data are provided. The CD-ROM was…
Descriptors: Ecology, Instructional Materials, Marine Biology, Optical Data Disks
1999
This CD-ROM, for ages 10-14, provides activities to answer questions such as what sound is; if we can see it; whether it travels faster through air, water, solids, or liquids; and how doctors, sailors, prospectors, architects, and engineers use sound in their work. This disc includes over 100 scientific concepts in music, acoustics, and anatomy;…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Activities, Music
Broughman, Stephen P. – 2000
This CD-ROM contains the 1997 Private School Locator. It includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, enrollment, and other descriptive data for 29,845 private schools in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It is derived from the 1997-98 Private School Survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Information Dissemination
Amadio, Massimo, Ed. – 2001
This CD-ROM focuses on basic descriptions of the main characteristics of the organization and functioning of national education systems. Originally, WDE reproduced the national reports on the development of education that the International Bureau of Education (IBE) asked UNESCO member states to present at each session of the International…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Global Approach, Information Sources, International Education
Association for Science Education, Herts (England). – 2001
This CD-ROM describes how science can be used in schools to show that students can be excited and engaged in science and how science can be integrated into other disciplines. Science Year is a 12-month packed calendar of events, projects and resources, designed to stimulate the imagination about science and technology. Activities include the…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Internet
Western Regional Resource Center, Eugene, OR. – 1999
Designed for educators, related service providers, parents, and others, this CD-ROM provides information on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997. Contents include the statute in its entirety, complete final regulations and analysis of comments taken verbatim from the Federal Register of March 12, 1999. Also included are topical…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, Los Angeles, CA. – 2000
This CD-ROM contains more than 150 technical reports, 25 newsletters, 2 videos, numerous assessments, some scoring rubrics, guidebooks, and research articles, representing the comprehensive results and products from a long federal investment in K-12 assessment and evaluation research through the National Center for Research on Evaluation,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Optical Data Disks
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, Honolulu, HI. – 2001
This CD-ROM is a teacher resource for standards-based Algebra 1 in the middle and secondary grades. There are three components on the CD including mathematical content, instructional strategies, and assessment. Components include: (1) video clips of Algebra 1 students; (2) commentaries about each video clip; (3) frequently asked questions and…
Descriptors: Algebra, Cooperative Learning, Evaluation, Mathematics Activities
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. Office of University Partnerships. – 2001
This interactive multimedia presentation is a new tool for promoting campus-community partnerships. The CD-ROM provides commentary on college-community partnerships, interviews with Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) Directors, staff, and students, and video of grantee activities. The presentations revolve around four themes central to…
Descriptors: Community Development, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Optical Data Disks
Download full textERIC Document Reproduction Service, Springfield, VA. – 1997
This manual is designed to accompany a set of 31 CD-ROM discs. Disc 1 contains a database of some 8,300 bibliographic records representing publications of the OERI-supported National Research and Development (R&D) Centers acquired and processed by ERIC across the 30-year period 1966-1997. Discs 2-31 contain digitized page images of the full…
Descriptors: Databases, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government
Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis. – 2001
This CD-ROM is an educational CD-ROM aimed at classroom audiences in 5th grade and above. Using QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR), the Boreal Virtual Forest is designed so that students are able to see views from inside the central hardwood forest and look up or down or spin around 360 degrees. The program allows students to become familiar with…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Forestry, Instructional Materials
Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, VA. – 2000
Designed for educators, related service providers, parents, and others, this compact disc provides information on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997. Contents include the statute in its entirety, complete final regulations, and analysis of comments taken verbatim from the Federal Register of March 12, 1999. Also included are…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of School Improvement. – 1997
Developed at Roosevelt Elementary School in Long Beach Unified School District (California), this CD-ROM presents Children Teaching Children (CTC), a literacy project intended to assist students to read, write, and publish their original work. It is part of the Program Improvement Initiative, an educational reform effort initiated by the…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Literacy
