Education/learning active living

The Solutions in Green Chemistry and Recipe for Sustainable Science units have been developed to reach students of all levels and abilities. The units target those students who have come to think that science is not for them and students to which science has not captured their imaginations. The units are designed to be hands-on and allow students to use their creativity within sound scientific principles. Both units are also available in Spanish for the use in other countries and for the ESL populations in U.S. schools that typically get very little science content in their education. Students will come away from the units with an alternative view of science that relates to their daily lives and teachers will learn how to apply Green Chemistry and sustainability to their own classroom activities. 

Mrs. Lianne Dik has just turned 40. She is a single mom to Roef (4) and Ema (2). Lianne says that, over time, she would like to pick up her old occupation administrative clerk. While she doesn t have the educational credentials, she always liked the work. As the conversation continues, you learn that Lianne lives separated from her partner, and that her divorce will be finalised by the first of next month. She would like her alimony to be supplemented by the welfare agency up to the welfare level. In addition, she wants to be relieved of the obligation to actively look for employment because of her tasks at home, taking care of the children. She is now alone in facing this task. She finds it difficult to deal with the situation psychologically. And that affects the children. 

Adults may think of students online and technological activities as cyber life but to them it is just life. Technology has always been a part of their existence, and they are enthusiastic about it. Educators should harness this enthusiasm and encourage students to talk about the impact of technology on their lives, their communities, and culture. Students should learn about the positive and negative aspects of cyber life and the concept of cyber citizenship. It is important that students bring a sense... 

Education Standards, 1996 The National Curriculum of England - Science, 1999 DeBoer, 2000). These reforms refleet the overall tendency to encourage students to integrate into their lives what they learn in the science classroom and to replace traditional frontal instruction with instruction that is more student-centered and active (Linn, Songer Eylon, 1996 Bybee, 1997). 

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