Music Pal This website from Yamaha contains tours of factories that manufacture trumpets, horns, saxaphones, clarinets, and flutes. There is also advice for players of wind instruments: trumpet, clarinet, flute, and trombone. See also information about caring for piccolos, flutes, clarinets, saxophones, oboes, bassoons, piston instruments, trombones, and rotary instruments. From EdNA Online on September 6, 2004 at 11:02 p.m..
Basic Skills for Offenders in the Community This report from the UK's Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI) examines the success of a programme to support the learning and skills of offenders under the supervision of the National Probation Service (NPS). The NPS areas have developed literacy and numeracy provision for offenders in the community over a period of 18 months since the initiative was introduced. Some areas have been creative in bringing the initiative to life by establishing practices that form a sound basis for success. Some have achieved promising results in terms of the basic skills qualifications gained by offenders. Ho From EdNA Online on September 6, 2004 at 11:02 p.m..
Television Goes to School: The Impact of Video on Student Learning in Formal Education This report, created for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (USA), focuses on key questions concerning the relationship of television to learning, and provides examples drawn from current television research to demonstrate television's effect on student achievement. A set of practical recommendations are also provided so that broadcasters and educators can maximise the effectiveness of video in the classroom. From EdNA Online on September 6, 2004 at 11:02 p.m..
Interactive Mathematics This site can be used equally well for demonstration materials in lectures and for tutorial purposes. Topics range from basic algebra through first-year calculus. Solved exercises throughout make the site especially appropriate for individual study. Interactive elements are added using LiveMath and Macromedia Flash. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:02 p.m..
Mathematical Discussions Essays attempting to show how various mathematical ideas arise naturally. Written in the spirit of George Polya. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:02 p.m..
Art Art From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:02 p.m..
A Business Statistics Online Course An online course in business statistics for MBA From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:02 p.m..
An online course in OR An online course in Decision Science, Management Science, and Operations Research for MBA From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:02 p.m..
Global Children's Art Gallery A gallery of well-presented art pieces from children aged 1 through 12 world-wide. This collection of over 900 examples of children's drawing and painting is hosted by the Natural Child Project as a project which furthers their vision of the world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. From Recent Items on September 6, 2004 at 11:02 p.m..
Sports and Nutrition: the Winning Connection There are four parts to this website from the University of Illinois: Don't Let Your Diet Let You Down, The Pre-Game Meal Planner, Keeping Energy Levels Up, Keeping Fluid Levels Up. The general message is that good nutrition is essential to sporting success. From EdNA Online on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Early Childhood Initiatives - Parenting Information Project The Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) Parenting Information Project aims to inform all levels of government and the community sector on what most needs to be done, and what improvements in parenting information would make the biggest difference for parents and their children. The project will help shape future strategies for communicating with and supporting parents. From EdNA Online on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Assessment for Learning Assessment for Learning aims to provide 1. teachers with examples of accessible, readily useable and relevant assessment tasks from all learning areas; 2. worksamples, (annotated and unannotated); 3. professional advice and activity related to assessment. Each task includes: Nature of the assessment task; Links to State and Territory curricula; Prior Teaching and Learning; Duration of the task; Teacher preparation; Scaffolding: preparing students for the task; The task; Professional Development; Rubrics & Worksamples. From EdNA Online on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Paralympics: Where the Heroes Come This Canadian project for students aims a joint language arts/social studies project designed to assist students in developing an appreciation of the Paralympic Games as a celebration of the power of the human mind, body, and spirit. From EdNA Online on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Golden Age of Botany This site contains information about work and growth of information/knowledge in botany in the late 18th century: Carl Linnaeus, Daniel Solander, Joseph Banks, James Cook, and William Bligh among others. Use the site also to find out about other explorers who have added to botanical knowledge. From EdNA Online on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Ofrendas The study module Ofrendas (Offerings) brings to life the custom of remembering and honoring the deceased by celebrating the Day of the Dead. A lively song, a video interview, and an Essay of Images, and related activities embrace the The Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st century. These standards are comprised by the 5 C's: Communication, Culture, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities. It is through these concepts of connectedness with people and life that Ofrendas teaches students how to honor the past and care for the future. I hope you find these comments and sugge From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Nick's Mathematical Puzzles A collection of puzzles ranging over geometry, probability, number theory, algebra, calculus, and logic. Hints are provided, along with fully worked solutions, and links to related mathematical topics. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Baragona's Arthurian Legend Page A site for Alan Baragona's Arthurian Legend class at Virginia Military Institute, it is a wide ranging collection of links, including a substantial bibliography made especially for the web page, and a link to the course syllabus. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Arthuriana Pedagogy A web site for anyone teaching Arthurian Legend from grade school to adult education. The site provides model lesson plans and lecture notes, syllabi, descriptions of projects, maps, pictures, recordings, a bibliography of textbooks and films, and a collection from the Arthurnet e-list of threads on teaching at all levels. Sponsored by the journal Arthuriana, the site is housed at Southern Methodist University, with a mirror site at Virginia Military Institute From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Toute la poésie Poetry From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Virtual Library on Genetics A very large and comprehensive online genetics resource,displaying information from all aspects of genetics today, Human chromosomes, genetic disorders, Genome project and topics of interest. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Virtual Cell Animations Virtual Cell contains animations developed to introduce students to new concepts including; transcription, translation and the lac operon. By walking through the still images and movies, viewers can easily choose between either studying a specific step from one of the processes or taking a more immersive look at the process in it's entirety. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Bacteria in Peptic Ulcer Disease The bacterium Helicobacter pylori makes its living in the acidic interior of the human stomach, where it causes most cases of peptic ulcers. Scientists suspect that the bacteria travel on a fecal-oral transmission route, infecting people early in childhood and then fluorishing in the stomach for the lifetime of the host. H. pylori is associated with gastritis, peptic ulcers, and stomach cancer. An infection can be eliminated with a regimen of antibiotics. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Gene Therapy A few years ago, a clinical trial began in France in the hope of curing children with a type of genetic immune deficiency called SCID-X1. Children with this disease have a defective gene, called gamma-c, which prevents a subset of the cells of the immune system from forming, and predisposes the children to life-threatening infections. In an attempt to cure the children—who would otherwise die at a young age—physicians used gene therapy to provide them with normal gamma-c genes. This particular trial has had striking success as well as tragedy. Eight of the eleven children are currently thriv From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
Malaria: Cooperation among Parasite, Vector, and Host The malaria parasite requires specific human and mosquito tissues to complete its life cycle. Once inside a human, the parasite develops and multiplies, causing periodic bouts of flu-like symptoms, including fever, headache, and chills. The developing parasites destroy red blood cells, which may cause death by severe anemia as well as by the clogging of capillaries that supply the brain or other vital organs with blood. The deadliest of the four species of the parasite is Plasmodium falciparum, a species most likely to be transmitted by the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. The genomes of humans, A. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 6, 2004 at 11:45 a.m..
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