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Swimming lessons do not increase drowning risk in young children

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Providing very young children with swimming lessons appears to have a protective effect against drowning and does not increase children's risk of drowning, reported researchers at the National Institutes of Health.


It's not just dirt!

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Soil is the linchpin of the environment, where atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere meet. Despite that, many students see soil as "just dirt" - a place to grow plants, but nothing more. Soil science educators are challenged ...


Students learn environmental stewardship, improve science scores

Students learn environmental stewardship, improve science scores

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Keeping with the global "green" trend, educators worldwide are relying more on environmental education lessons to enhance students' science knowledge. Studies have revealed that bringing environmental education ...


Adolescents involved with music do better in school

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly reveals that music participation, defined as music lessons taken in or out of school and parents attending concerts with their children, has a positive effect on readin ...


Children in British junior schools could soon be taking lessons in Internet applications like Twitter

British pupils to get lessons on Twitter: report

Technology / Internet

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Children in British junior schools could soon be taking lessons in Internet applications like Twitter under proposals to change school curriculums, the Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday.


Teen drug education also helps curb risky sexual behavior, study finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

School-based drug education programs for adolescents can have a long-term positive impact on sexual behavior in addition to curbing substance abuse, according to a new RAND Corporation study.


Researchers develop game for HIV+ youth

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health have developed a game for HIV-positive youth, +CLICK, designed to reduce secondary transmission of the virus.


Bangladeshi pedestrians speak on their cellular telephones as they walk through a commercial district in Dhaka

Mobile phone English lessons a hit in Bangladesh

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Every morning, Ahmed Shariar Sarwar makes it his daily ritual to call number 3000 on his mobile phone to get lessons in English -- his passport to a better life in impoverished Bangladesh.


Project uses cell phones as computers in the classroom

Technology / Hi Tech

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Educational software for cell phones, a suite of tools developed at the University of Michigan, is being used to turn smart phones into personal computers for students in two Texas classrooms.


The cardiovascular benefits of daily exercise in school children are evident even after one year

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

School children as young as 11 can benefit from a daily exercise programme in reducing their levels of several known risk factors for cardiovascular disease. An ongoing study, which began four years ago in the German city ...


Children 'increasingly unlikely' to learn a modern language

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Children are increasingly unlikely to leave school with even the most basic knowledge of modern languages despite Government claims to the contrary, an independent study has found.


Lessons learned from H1N1 virus pandemic

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A comprehensive study has revealed, for the first time, the impact of swine flu on the health of the general public in Australia and New Zealand.


Losing sight of people in a crowd can spell disaster, warns new report

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Focusing on technology instead of people is a key factor in events going wrong, according to a major series of reports into crowd behaviour and management, published this week.


While the cat's away: How removing an invasive species devastated a World Heritage island

Biology /

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Removing an invasive species from sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, a World Heritage Site, has caused environmental devastation that will cost more than A$24 million to remedy, ecologists have revealed. Writing in the new issue ...


School program cuts problem behaviors in fifth graders in half

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study by Oregon State University researchers suggests that school-based prevention programs begun in elementary school can significantly reduce problem behaviors in students.