scholarly journals Science Enrichment

2020 ◽  
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Science Enrichment

Get in the GROOVE

2018 ◽  
pp. 1532-1552
Author(s):  
Mary Kate Clennan ◽  
Daniella S. Carucci ◽  
Shannon E. Chiles ◽  
Marissa D. Alert ◽  
Alyssa LaRoche ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual World ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Healthy Behaviors ◽  
Healthy Habits ◽  
Prevention Project ◽  
Enrichment Program ◽  
Science Enrichment

Over the last few decades, there has been a rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in American youths. This chapter describes the rationale for the virtual world features of an ongoing obesity prevention project that engages middle school aged girls in a 3-week summer science enrichment program. The Get in the GROOVE! program is designed to promote self-efficacy for healthy behavior change, increase health knowledge, facilitate healthy behaviors related to physical activity and nutrition, encourage a healthy body image, and promote the development and consolidation of a health self-identity. The virtual world component supplements experiences and reinforces curriculum and concepts learned in the physical world component of the program. Preliminary findings suggest that The Get in the GROOVE! program is a promising social environment to motivate healthy habits.

The Ideal Science Lesson

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lou Endean
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Science Lesson ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Normal School ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Science Enrichment ◽  
The Ideal

Every summer Nene College School of Sciences organises a one week Science Enrichment Course for 13 year old children who are talented in Science. This paper describes how the course was set up by a working party of keen science teachers, who although they feel that the needs of the most able should be met within the normal school, with increasing pressures and decreasing resources, this task is a formidable one. The paper describes the methodology for testing the children and includes a summary of the test results which indicate that talented children in Science are very demanding on both resources and teachers' time and consequently they are not challenged nearly enough. Children had forthright comments to make about science education and it is a refreshing change to record what children feel and think.

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