Sentences with phrase «component of social studies»

Non-text sources like maps and charts are a substantial component of social studies content.

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The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

«We were thus able to create a matrix that clearly showed that almost without exception the two partners exchange calls with one another, which underlines the important social component of this «stack» call,» says Andries Ter Maat, lead author of the study.

Some commonly studied networks include computer chip components and social media users, but University of Pennsylvania engineers are now applying network science to a much older system: the human body.

The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report said that science knowledge is only one component of science literacy, which also encompasses understanding scientific practices, such as forming and testing hypotheses, and understanding science as a social process, such as the role of peer review.

Dr Dora Biro, co-author of the study from Oxford's Department of Zoology, said: «Coordinating behaviour is an essential component of many social situations and can enable groups of individuals jointly to solve problems.

This study was one component of the University of Chicago - based National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP), the first in - home study of social relationships and health in a large, nationally representative sample of older adults, ages 57 Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP), the first in - home study of social relationships and health in a large, nationally representative sample of older adults, ages 57 social relationships and health in a large, nationally representative sample of older adults, ages 57 to 85.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

When we study the inability of many children to control emotions and regulate behaviors, we begin to address the specific organic components of ADD and the social repercussions affecting many students at all hours of the day.

In this project, English, social studies, science, and / or art students not only learn a great deal about the topic they write on and illustrate, they also learn about the classic components of good narrative, and why it is unexpectedly challenging to make a publication - worthy picture book.

Our school was recently featured in a case study released by the Aspen Institute's National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development; we were recognized for our emphasis on integrating these three components of learning.

Vocabulary study, therefore, is an essential component of the English language arts block, as well as content areas like science and social studies.

One particularly promising element of the English / Language Arts standards is the addition of the standards component of Literacy in History / Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects.

From Massachusetts» MCAT and Texas» TAKS to California's CAT, Florida's FSA, and New York's Regents Exam, social studies is an important component of standardized tests.

Allows for social structure A study published in a 2009 issue of Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects found that eLearners were most responsive and successful in eLearning when there was a social component involved.

During this academic year, prospective teachers took a social studies education course coupled with a96 - hour field component in the fall and a second social studies education coursein the first 5 weeks of spring, immediately followed by 10 weeks of studentteaching.

In New York in the Spring semester 2000, components of GIS were added to an existing methods course for students pursuing secondary social studies certification through the education program at Hartwick College.

Inference - making is an important component of several major social studies processes specified in the national social studies standards, such as making generalizations, evaluating sides of an argument, predicting the outcomes of various actions, sorting fact from opinion, determining the outcomes of a decision, detecting bias, and interpreting points of view (Sunal & Haas, 2002; NCSS, 2008).

Of equal importance, the Science IDEAS advanced teaching components provide a means through which Science IDEAS can positively impact the quality of instruction in other instructional content domains (e.g., social studies, mathematics, literatureOf equal importance, the Science IDEAS advanced teaching components provide a means through which Science IDEAS can positively impact the quality of instruction in other instructional content domains (e.g., social studies, mathematics, literatureof instruction in other instructional content domains (e.g., social studies, mathematics, literature).

The Georgia Department of Education has partnered with Georgia's 16 Regional Education Service Agencies (RESA) to provide LDC training as a critical component of Georgia's implementation of the Common Core Literacy Standards in science, social studies, CTAE, and ELA.

Social Security is not sufficient as a stand - alone retirement program, but case studies from three hypothetical teachers of varying experience levels show that teachers of all experience levels would benefit from Social Security coverage as one component of a comprehensive retirement plan.

The case itself was positioned within an introductory social studies curriculum course that formed a compulsory component of the program.

We recognize how critical it is to link these real - world experiences to transferrable skills, which why we've aligned the unit to third - grade social studies standards, as well as to components of the Teaching Tolerance framework.

Fifteen states have at least three of the curriculum components in English at all three levels of schooling, 11 states have at least three of the curriculum components in math at all three levels, and nine states have at least three in science and social studies at all three levels.

The survey was divided into four parts, with the first component focusing on demographics (17 items), the second addressing the use of technology in social studies methods courses, the third assessing personal use of technology and confidence in technology, and the fourth examining organizational support and barriers to technology integration and further information on the organizations of the respondents.

After being accepted into the group, our experienced trainers undergo one of the most complete and rounded training programs in the industry, consisting of a 360 hour curriculum that includes extensive study on canine learning theory and social development, as well as an intensive hands - on in - residence training component conducted in Dover, Delaware.

This process has been studied extensively in social psychology as implicit associations and implicit attitudes, a component of implicit cognition.

It found that the combined environmental and social costs of Fairtrade cotton are five times less than conventional cotton, and that «the impacts of Fairtrade farming were 97 percent lower for social elements and 31 percent lower for environmental components studied.»

Additional studies investigated the specificity of the social versus nonsocial components of self - reported behavioural inhibition during childhood and their relation with young adults» current symptoms of anhedonic depression, social anxiety and anxious arousal.

Improving the Performance and Outcomes of Child Welfare Through State Program Improvement Plans (PIPS): The Real Opportunity of the Child and Family Services Review (PDF - 300 KB) Center for the Study of Social Policy (2003) Encourages States to consider the CFSR process as an opportunity to reform child welfare systems by outlining principles for improvement and examining the important components of PIPs.

For example, a tobacco - focused review which included any intervention type, classified interventions with a component of resilience content into different subgroups such as social competence or social influence interventions, finding evidence for both broad intervention approaches.6 For the alcohol - focused review, only universal interventions were included with such interventions grouped according to whether they targeted alcohol alone or targeted multiple substance types.5 While meta - analysis was not conducted due to the heterogeneity of studies, the review concluded that some psychosocial and developmental prevention programmes were effective.

Prior studies have suggested students respond better to programs that reinforce social learning throughout the school and at home, but this study found that programs with more components were less likely to follow any — not to mention all — of the best practices of sequenced, active lessons based on explicit goals and focus on each goal for enough time.

The current study involved evaluating two versions of the AOP, each containing two 10 - week school - based components — Social Life Skills (SLS; Roberts C. et al., 2003) and Optimistic Thinking Skills (OTS; Roberts R. et al., 2003) implemented in Grades 6 and 7, respectively, plus a self - directed program for parents and families (PF; Drake - Brockman and Roberts, 2001) to be implemented in the second half of the last year of primary school.

According to a study published in the April 2010 issue of the «Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,» conversations that routinely contained validation, empathy and caring were essential components for couples in developing intimacy.

Guided by a social information processing perspective, this study examined the unique and interactive contributions of social anxiety and two distinct components of empathy, empathic concern and perspective taking, to subsequent relational and overt aggression in early adolescents.

The first goal of the present study was to identify the heterogeneous developmental trajectories of social skills known to be components of prosocial behavior during early childhood by applying a group - based trajectory approach [14].