Children as young as 5 have gender bias when it comes to picking a musical instrument
...tudents playing one of the eight instruments. The elementary school children were randomly put into three group... depicted the eight instruments as being played by elementary school-age children. Before being asked to pick the instrument they would like to play, there was a...Psychologists identify best aggression-prevention programs in schools
... that targeting programs to kindergarten and young elementary school students, focusing on aggression in girls a...intervention programs should target pre-school and elementary school-age children. The programs should focus on teaching young children prosocial behaviors, anger...Children lead the way when it comes to asthma management
...e lessons learned in a school program that teaches elementary school children to manage their asthma appear to rub off on their parents, even when the parents are not directly involved with the program, according to a new study. We believe that it is likely that the homework assignments and other communication ......possible. Students came to the Kunsberg School, an elementary school on the campus of National Jewish. Registere...s on plant reproduction, and children read from an elementary school textbook on the same subject. Children also had school periods for art, physical education, c...NHLBI launches sleep & children education program with Garfield the Cat as "Spokescat"
...Cat, three Garfield sleep contest winners, 80 D.C. elementary school children, and others, NHLBI Director Dr. Cl... the NAESP recalled that during his 24 years as an elementary school principal, he often observed children who were asleep in class or too tired to concentrate. ...NHLBI to launch sleep and children education campaign
...st winners; and a sleep education activity with 80 elementary school children from the World Public Charter School, adapted from a new Garfield Star Sleeper Fun Pad; and airing of new Garfield Sleep TV PSA. WHO: The campaign is co-sponsored by the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research at the Nation...UNC-CH School of Social Work receives grant to prevent violence
...and "Strong Families" programs will be used at the elementary schools. "We believe that intervention focusing on children, parents, teachers and the culture of the school offers the best chance for helping children learn to solve problems and act proactively rather than to react out of frustration or anger," sa...NHLBI funds asthma coalitions to improve care among high risk populations
...ion to school staff and students in Indianapolis's elementary and middle schools and Head Start programs with a goal of improving community awareness and family involvement in understanding asthma and asthma care and strengthening links between schools and health care providers in this low-income, predominantly...New understanding of a key control mechanism in the brain
... neurons in the brain that collaborate in the most elementary functions even if they seem different in almost every other way (i.e., they can identify neurons descended from the same "ancestors"). "I-neurons can trace family trees of neurons. In other words, they could help us to work out how neurons are relat......ty gives results of a trial that involved about190 elementary school children. Children who received an 18-lesson, 6-monthcurriculum reduced their body mass index and their TV, videotape, and video gameuse. They also ate fewer meals in front of the TV. Elaine Stone, Ph.D., HealthScientist Administrator, NHLB...You have to break a few (hundred) eggs to make a good crystal
... the ordinary sugar that many ofus crystallized in elementary school science - it's a relative lightweight inthe protein world. To exclude impurities often found in commercial lysozyme preparations, Judge andhis team purified lysozyme extracted from eggs obtained from a local egg farm.While one experiment run r......e exposed to the Head Startprogram before entering elementary school are thriving academically and sociallyat the end of the third grade, but data from a new national study createsworries that their future success may be tempered by their luke-warm attitudetoward school. Results of the study, which also......ation [AYSO], club and highschool athletic events, elementary schools) as well as the coaches from U.S.Junior National Championship competitions and 17 NCAA Division 1 coaches atStanford University, winner for the fifth straight year of the prestigious SearsCup for the top number of championships across sports,...NSF award to five Georgia universities for new Science and Technology Center
...plements the regular science curriculum in Georgia elementary schools. Efforts will be made to target students early for careers in behavioralneuroscience by building better bridges to graduate training with programs forundergraduates at all participating schools, including summer internships forfirst and secon...Children CATCH on to heart-health messages
...Three years after their last formal encounter with elementary schoollessons on the benefits of heart-healthy eat...suggests thathealth behaviors initiated during the elementary school years persist into earlyadolescence. The report appears in the July 1999 issue of Archives of...Improved Ritalin™ Offers Smaller Doses And Fewer Side Effects
...possibly as many as three percent of the country's elementary and secondarystudents, about 1.5 million, are prescribed Ritalin. Using a new synthesis developed in his lab, University of Pennsylvaniachemist Jeffrey Winkler, Ph.D., and his research group were able to makeanalogues of Ritalin that he says "ha...Neutron Research To Help In Treatment Of Cancer Patients
...tumorsby breaking them up with neutrons, uncharged elementary particles found in thenuclei of atoms. Although the concept of neutron therapy isn't new, scientistsso far haven't been successful in measuring the energy of neutrons withsufficient accuracy. Work at Ohio University is solving that problem. S...School Computer Posture Problems Found
..., Says Cornell Study ITHACA, N.Y. -- Children in elementary schools may be placed at risk by computerworkstations that have been designed with little or no regard formusculoskeletal development, according to a Cornell University study. The ergonomic and environmental psychology researchers found that almost ...University Of California San Francisco Dental School Launches Pilot Program For Pre-Dental Students
...program thatreaches undergraduate, high school and elementary school students....New Elementary School Program Lowers Cardiovascular Risks In Children
...indings suggest the need for policy changes at the elementary school level to place new emphasis on health and p...ending that the classroom-wide approach be used in elementary schools, Dr. Harrell believes that This is an important challenge for our primary education system. ...