Sentences with phrase «schoolchildren learning»

Schoolchildren learn this truth in their science classes: All containers leak.

On March 20, as on every vernal equinox, schoolchildren learn and the media proclaim that day and night are equal everywhere.

During the talks schoolchildren learned that some of the dangers of open water are not always obvious, including strong underwater currents and sudden changes in water depth.

One of the most commonly taught stories American schoolchildren learn is that of Ragged Dick, Horatio Alger's 19th - century tale of a poor, ambitious teenaged boy in New York City who works hard and eventually secures himself a respectable, middle - class life.

Animal lovers, parents and teachers are being urged to back a campaign to ensure schoolchildren learn the...

Anthony's own retired racing greyhounds have been certified as therapy dogs by The Good Dog Foundation, and have helped cancer patients rehabilitate from chemotherapy treatements and schoolchildren learn to interact peacefully with dogs.

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As a result, schoolchildren in Turin will soon be learning how to eat with people and planet in mind, and will be growing up into adults who can spread the word still further.

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.

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.

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.

Schoolchildren do not sit at their desks memorising - Natasa Pantovic The system needs a shift in focus: from one that teaches children a curriculum, to the one that inspires lifelong learning.

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

The Governor George E. Pataki Leadership and Learning Center, located in Peekskill, New York, is designed to educate schoolchildren on government using Governor Pataki's public service as an example.

Next comes annoyance — which impairs people's well - being even if it has no direct impact on health — with a corresponding figure of 587,000 years, followed by learning deficits among schoolchildren estimated at 45,000, and tinnitus with 22,000.

Analyzing survey data from almost 6,000 UK secondary schoolchildren (aged 11 - 16) from communities with traditionally low science engagement, the authors investigated who participates in science learning outside of the classroom.

Reduces learning capacity and can cause learning disorders that could affect schoolchildren's grades

RedSTART, the charity set up to improve financial education for children, has launched a learning portal for primary and secondary schoolchildren and teachers.

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

There's much to learn in British classrooms today, however, Garry Campbell from environmental charity Groundwork, explains how moving lessons outdoors can be a practical way to boost schoolchildren's learning potential while reconnecting them with nature

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.

A survey in 2011 also showed that 73 % of schoolchildren wanted to learn how to resuscitate someone and give first aid.

Earlier this month, Nick Clegg likened the Department for Education under Gove to political parody show The Thick of It, saying the former education secretary was known to keep a handwritten list of medieval monarchs that he believed schoolchildren should be required to learn.

He explores qualities of genius in all schoolchildren such as playfulness, creativity, wonder, and wisdom, and is joined by teachers and administrators of the Association Montessori International / USA in celebrating the young child's innate love of learning.

November 17, 2014: NSBA Applauds FCC Proposal to Increase E-rate Funding «NSBA applauds this vital FCC action to give America's schoolchildren — particularly those in rural and remote communities — greater access to 21st century teaching and learning,» said NSBA Executive Director Thomas Gentzel.

Jaylen is one of 4,000 Hoosier schoolchildren — 2,500 in Indianapolis — who are learning instead of lounging thanks to Summer Advantage, a program founded in Indianapolis with the help of the nonprofit Mind Trust that tries to use summer to push kids to higher achievement rather than letting them backslide.

«Overly rigid and unrealistic federal mandates undermine the ability of school districts to do what the law intends: prepare and serve nutritious food that enables America's public schoolchildren to grow, learn, and thrive,» said Gentzel.

«It is essential that America's public schoolchildren gain the high - speed Internet access required to inform and support 21st century teaching and learning.»

In a world of multimedia technologies that can distract and even isolate students, educators must work ever more resourcefully to entice schoolchildren back to the basics of learning.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolcLearning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolclearning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolclearning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

On one hand, it might be the only time of year that schoolchildren will learn about the important moments and people in black history that shaped our country and world.

Local schoolchildren regularly visit the centre to learn about animal welfare and the importance of demonstrating compassion and kindness towards working animals.

Admire gorgeous landscapes aboard a festive, safari - style vehicle and meet farmers, a Dominican family and schoolchildren, learning about the island's rich history and heritage along the way.

Everyone, from doctors to schoolchildren, learn about specific nutrients and percentages of recommended daily intakes, but that doesn't translate easily to the grocery store:

While village leaders are working on an ambitious — and expensive — effort to relocate the entire community to the mainland nearby, Shishmaref schoolchildren as young as five are learning about the shift in the climate that will change their lives.

Sorry, Wyoming schoolchildren, but if you want to learn more about evolution and climate change in class you're on your own, unless you move to a state with a more enlightened government, or at least one with fewer science deniers making the rules.

It was conceived and built by a charity with the aim of making computers available to schoolchildren in order to have them learn how to write code.

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