Elementary School Course Works Samples For Students

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In health promotion, objectives play a central role. Objectives are aims and desired results that a person or organization commits to achieving. This study develops an intervention program to promote health by preventing obesity. The proposed intervention program targets elementary schools and consists of a policy change to incorporate Physical Education (PE) lessons for all students and a physical activity program to be offered for free after school. This essay sets the program’s objectives by evaluating the elements of good objectives, deriving various objectives for the program and highlighting the indicators to measure each objective.

4a: Elements of Well Written Objectives

Objectives are realistic targets and well written ...

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Increased social problems have led to many cases that need to be addressed by psychologists. For instance, in schools there are increased cases of students’ violence that have caused riots and other social problems in schools. Cases of sexual abuse have also drastically increased in modern society. Cases of rape are reported on a daily basis in the media just as reflection of moral corruption in the society. All these social problems are causing dilemmas among psychologists who are supposed to help in solving these problems. This paper will therefore analyze some of these dilemmas among the psychologists.

Sexually abused child

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The scientific method of research uses investigation of phenomena and using newly acquired knowledge or prior knowledge to analyze it. It involves a series of steps all of which should be directed towards achieving verifiable results. When looking for an elementary school for the child, the child’s abilities should be put into consideration, his learning styles, the social environment best for him and practical matters such as the extracurricular activities he should join.

How to find the best Elementary School using the Scientific Method

Observation: Listing down the schools that seem consider desirable would be the first priority. Observing the students from that school would follow. That would be in ...

The D.A.R.E Project was originally developed in the United States of America as a school-based drug-education program with a heavy funding of over $200 million every year, and aims at equipping elementary school children with skills for resisting both peer pressure to experiment with tobacco, drugs, and alcohol and the use of drugs. As I see it, the program is good and has a great overview at first glance, therefore making it effective for the first two years after training in elementary school, but then wears off and hence is not effective in high school and college where the largest number of ...

Recent statistics have reported the increasing prevalence rate of obesity and other lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in both developed and developing countries (De Onis et al., 2010). Albeit, considered to be lifestyle-associated in etiology, the occurrence of these diseases is solely evident among adults but alarmingly also among children.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has documented the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity worldwide. In 2010, 43 million children were diagnosed to be overweight or obese. A significant number (35 million) of these children lived in developing countries. The worldwide prevalence rate of obesity among children ...

- Paragraph one, sentence three – the author uses description well; he allows the reader to visualize vividly how the boy comes into a room when he is late. The reader can see the door pushed open and swinging back with so much force it slams on the wall, rattles the glassware and frightens the cat to run for safety. Paragraph –five explains what the sixties were like; it was a colorful time when extremely bold colors, if worn now would be grounds for rediclude, were acceptable. One dressing with such boldness was thought of as being chic.

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1. Outline the categories of violence as described by Jamil Salmi.

According to Salmi, the phenomenon of violence has many characteristics, with particular causes per characteristic and with particular causational agents per cause. Violence also exists in several forms, including direct violence, indirect violence, repressive violence, and alienating violence.

Direct violence is characterized by any physical, in-person act causing intended harm. In this category would be included A) any act resulting in death (homicide, genocide, infanticide); and B) any “coercive or brutal” (Module 6, 44) at threatening or resulting in physical or psychological damage or suffering—including rape, spousal abuse, political imprisonment, for example.

Indirect violence is characterized by ...

LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES CONFRONTING THE EDUCATION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS

English was not always the language of instruction in schools across America as in the eighteenth century classes were conducted in different languages (Porter, 1998, para 2). In places such as Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Maryland and Virginia classes in some schools were conducted in German, French, Swedish, Dutch and even Greek. It was only after the First World War that English was made the language of instruction in American schools.

Bilingual education is an effort that seeks to help immigrant kids learn how to speak and write English by using their native language to do so. However this kind of ...