Obesity is linked to high morbidity and mortality and is particularly prevalent in the southeastern United States. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program--Education (SNAP-Ed), funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, provides nutrition education and obesity-prevention programs for individuals who qualify for nutrition assistance…

Students' participation in schools is a legal obligation in Norway and has received increased attention due to its prevalence in updates to the national curriculum and Act of Education. This paper presents findings from mixed methods research on student participation in seven Norwegian schools in which students, teachers and leaders were asked…

Integrating cultural contexts into mathematics education, mainly through Ethno-Realistic Mathematics Education (Ethno-RME), presents a significant opportunity to enhance students' numeracy skills in geometry. However, challenges persist in effectively incorporating cultural elements into curricula while maintaining rigorous and modern mathematical…

Background: Gross motor difficulties can limit physical activity (PA) participation, contributing to unhealthy body composition. Aim: This study profiled Grade 1 learners' gross motor development, PA and anthropometry and explored relationships between these variables. Setting: A cross-sectional design was followed, including Grade 1 learners (33…

Following professional development (PD), implementation of contemporary topics into high school biology requires teachers to make critical decisions regarding integration of novel content into existing course scope and sequence. Often exciting topics, such as neuroscience, do not perfectly align with standards. Despite commitment to enacting what…

Grounded in self-determination theory, this study examines the effects of a leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) intervention with work colleagues on work-related outcomes of relatedness satisfaction, engagement factors, satisfaction, and burnout subtypes. Fifty-seven teachers (M[subscript age] = 46.81 ± 7.90), from two secondary schools…

The rise of "big data" within the biological sciences has resulted in an urgent demand for coding skills in the next generation of scientists. To address this issue, several institutions and departments across the country have incorporated coding into their curricula. I describe a coding module developed and deployed in an undergraduate…

At the end of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign during World War 1, Lance Corporal William Scurry saved thousands of lives with his one simple invention. As the ANZAC soldiers prepared to withdraw from the disastrous 9-monthlong Gallipoli campaign, Scurry came up with the idea of setting up a large battery of rifles that would discharge automatically…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends youth participate in at least one hour of moderate to vigorous physical activity each day to achieve various short- and long-term health benefits. Unfortunately, only two thirds of American-born children and adolescents meet these prescribed recommendations. The purpose of this article is…

While numerous studies have highlighted the benefits of physical activity on cognitive health, learning, and executive function, maintaining physical activity throughout one's life lies with the acquisition of physical literacy. This article examines how the process of cognitive learning attributed to physical literacy can be understood in light…

This article outlines a structured writing community activity originally created to assist communication majors complete their capstone projects. This activity draws upon the Writing Accountability Group (WAG) strategy that has been utilized to facilitate graduate student and early career faculty writing. The current article provides an overview…

Students engage in a pedagogy that fosters deliberation on civic issues that elicit different perspectives relevant to a community through a semester-long project that culminates in the execution of public dialogue forum. This project facilitates three learning objectives: dialogic praxis, communication as design, and facilitative leadership.…

The purpose of this research is to investigate how the Norwegian outdoor-safety discourse develop between 2005-2015. Second, I examine the creation of meaning and understanding about risk and safety in the outdoors. The research affirms that important elements of opinion formation are discursively negotiated. The main line in the negotiations…

This article describes the NASA-Funded Space Grant Project BOREALIS: "Balloon Outreach, Research, Exploration, and Landscape Imaging System." BOREALIS conducts high-altitude balloon flights to the "edge of space" with flights typically reaching 100,000 feet and a current record flight in the summer of 2020 that reached 126,000…

Russian culture developed under the burden of a series of totalitarian governments, a circumstance that, oddly, supported mathematics education. The Soviet period in particular saw a flowering of mathematical culture, the seeds of which have, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, been carried to the rest of Europe and America. A trickle of…