Sentences with phrase «schoolchildren about»

Since 2003, RAPB has partnered with the Palm Beach County Office of Equal Opportunity to sponsor the Fair Housing Poster Contest, a program to teach schoolchildren about the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

Ensuring the voices of young people were heard, the UK Safer Internet Centre created #Up2Us, a film made by over 150 schoolchildren about their online experiences — both good and bad.

It's heartening because it confirms what most of us believe to be true: Our teachers, for the most part, are doing their absolute best to inform and educate American schoolchildren about the origins, nature, and implications of global climate change.

We have pioneered innovative, science - based forest - restoration work, educated thousands of schoolchildren about the uniqueness and resilience of these wild marvels of nature, improved access to parkland and helped create parks and reserves that have touched the lives of millions of people from around the world.

A Melbourne - based doctor and his friend have invented a playing card game designed to educate schoolchildren about the importance of immunisations.

Kids Voting USA is a program designed to educate schoolchildren about the democratic process and foster their political socialization.

After leaving the Army he set up a consultancy called The Curzon Education Ltd, which won a # 120,000 grant to give lectures to schoolchildren about the role of Commonwealth soldiers in the First World War.

Ms. Toscano - Percoco was paid a yearly salary of $ 90,000, for a total of about $ 285,000, to teach schoolchildren about energy.

SPUC is an anti-choice group which, through its «Safe at School» campaign, delivers talks to parents and schoolchildren about the supposed harms of Sex and Relationships Education (SRE), and the dangers of abortion.

Not exact matches

Hey Zeus (someone about whom schoolchildren today no nothing because, y» know dude, ancient Greeks were misogynists)... I don't claim Bush or the statist NCLB legislation which he passed to please Laura, or the Iraq war, which he caused to please Poppy, or his Prescription Drug Bennie which he passed to buy senior votes.

In a question to the Education Secretary, the MP for Enfield, Southgate, said: «There are reports that Ofsted is demanding that a Christian school invites an imam to take collective worship and that Jewish schoolchildren have been asked intrusive questions about their views on sexuality.

Suburbia may also have fostered the absorption of the monetary value - standard; the question most frequently asked by thousands of wide - eyed schoolchildren visiting the traveling King Tut exhibit was not anything about that fabulous era, or what those people believed as they prepared for afterlife, but rather, «How much does it cost?»

Schoolchildren in northern Indiana, I can attest, marked Lincoln's birthday by drawing crayon portraits of the president while listening to inspirational stories about his life.

There are several curriculum - linked activities for schoolchildren to get their teeth into, including getting children to create a chart of meat - free food according to the alphabet in order to help them with their literacy, learning about meat - free diets around the world for geography, and designing a four - week MFM diet for design and technology.

Staff from GreenPalm were joined by other local businesses to use their expertise to give a group of 80 Hull schoolchildren a lesson in global trade, during an event intended to help them learn more about International business.

Scores of schoolchildren bandy about, some offering heartfelt attempts to «tag» one another in the game of the same name, others waiting their turn for hot dogs and Slushies.

WASHINGTON — Warning that American schoolchildren need to learn about cholesterol as well as computers, a national panel of nutritionists said Wednesday that school lunchrooms must serve less fat and more fiber.

For more than 60 years, Drumlin Farm has given schoolchildren, families, and visitors from around the region and the world opportunities to experience first - hand the wonders of nature and learn about how our food is grown.

So far about 93,000 schoolchildren, more than half the total public school population in Maine, are eating Let's Go!

Department of Agriculturein January unveiled new rules aimed at improving the health standards of federally - funded meals consumed by about 32 million American schoolchildren.

In 2007 about 30 million schoolchildren took part in the National School Lunch Program at a federal cost of $ 8.7 billion.

«Successful meal programs have made continuous innovation and collaboration with students their guiding principles, and they've worked to improve not just cafeteria menus but what schoolchildren are taught about food, with help from principals, teachers, and parents.»

Last November I told you about a groundbreaking initiative by Chicago Public Schools to serve chicken raised without antibiotics to that city's K - 12 schoolchildren.

Visitors can talk with volunteers about activities such as giving tours to schoolchildren and other visitors; making floral arrangements and gardening; touring new exhibits; learning the opportunities for dressing up in costume to demonstrate 19th Century exhibits; or plying a hobby such as blacksmithing, printing or stone carving.

A group of schoolchildren from Sheffield have been learning about airguns, gundogs and conservation with BASC this month.

The Assembly Majority cares deeply about New York's schoolchildren.

He toyed with his Blackberry throughout the session, for instance, and paid about as much attention as the army of schoolchildren who were ushered into the public gallery half way through.

The government has urged parents to enthuse children about books after a global comparison shows British schoolchildren are reading less than five years ago.

«He's wrong about the start date of the recession,» Brown argues - both of them resemble schoolchildren.

«And a place like, this a national park, would be eligible to apply for grant money to talk about why Harriet Tubman's life was so relevant to women's rights, to teach schoolchildren, teach the community and have celebratory events.»

So when I heard Shane McCracken give a presentation about «I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here,» an outreach program to connect schoolchildren with scientists, I asked to participate.

Currently, about one - third of American schoolchildren are considered overweight or obese.

Western schoolchildren are routinely outperformed by their Asian peers, but worrying about it is pointless

You can see it in Steven Soderbergh's experimental «Bubble» from 2006, a love triangle set in a small - town doll factory featuring non-actors, and in Zhang Yimou's 2000 drama «Not One Less,» about the struggles of schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village played by... schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village.

Knowledge about those principles will be useful for schoolchildren long after they leave school and become professionals.

«And that's what Americans would like schoolchildren to learn about their nation.»

This special report is all about school buildings and what it takes to assure that the nation's schoolchildren have a modern, fully - equipped, well - maintained school to attend.

Schoolchildren and teachers have been encouraged to start thinking about smart buildings as part of the movement to help young teenagers see career possibilities in science, engineering and technology.

The story of Bletchley Park's Codebreakers will fascinate schoolchildren of all ages and there is no better way to learn about their work than in the capable and inspiring hands of the heritage attraction's learning department.

Director Vicki Abeles» documentary is about the pressures faced by American schoolchildren and their teachers in a system and culture she describes as obsessed with the illusion of achievement, competition and the pressure to perform.

Back on March 13, 2011, retired Los Angeles school district teacher Doug Lasken and I wrote an opinion column for the San Francisco Chronicle about non-compliance with the Stull Act in Los Angeles and other California districts — so I could not be happier about this lawsuit, which may finally bring some justice for Los Angeles schoolchildren after years of the district's deliberate dodging of the law.

In fact, Mr. Branstad's May 8 veto of major portions of that measure has locked the four - term Republican in a stalemate with leaders of his own party and exposed both sides to charges that they care more about politics than schoolchildren.

The schoolchildren told them, among other things, that they had more positive attitudes about school and were more inclined to aim for college.

About the same share of 8th graders attend schools where music and visual - arts instruction are offered as a decade ago — a proportion that accounts for only about half the nation's schoolchildren at thatAbout the same share of 8th graders attend schools where music and visual - arts instruction are offered as a decade ago — a proportion that accounts for only about half the nation's schoolchildren at thatabout half the nation's schoolchildren at that age.

At age 71, Romer is enthusiastic about his new responsibilities for the district's 700,000 schoolchildren.

For the people who really know about the issue — and can prove the value of providing all schoolchildren with good food — the proposal to make it free for them is a no - brainer.

Although most of the nation's 52 million schoolchildren are still on traditional schedules, about 2 million attend school year - round; they attend school the same number of days as students on traditional schedules, but they get shorter breaks throughout the year.

This Education Week special report is all about the concrete — and equally crucial — topic of school facilities and what it takes to assure that the nation's 56 million schoolchildren have a modern, fully - equipped, well - maintained school to attend, and a place where all that theory and educator experience can be put into practice.

«State chiefs, district superintendents, and principals are the primary audience — the people making decisions about programs for schoolchildren,» he said.

Let them then not pretend otherwise, despite all this talk by Randi Weingarten and Karen Lewis about the new CTU contract being in the best interest of Chicago's schoolchildren.