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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Learning about Loss within a Health Education Program
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Coleman, K. Jeanne – Health Education, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to show how children's health and wellbeing are continuously influenced by violence, divorce, family transience, environmental concerns, terrorism within and outside the country's borders and, most recently, threats of and acts of war. This study investigates the perceived needs of fourth-grade elementary…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Qualitative Research, Comprehensive School Health Education, Child Health
Medicine Education for Schoolchildren: What Do the Teachers Think?
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Hameen-Anttila, Katri; Airaksinen, Marja; Timonen, Johanna; Bush, Patricia; Ahonen, Riitta – Health Education, 2006
Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate teachers' attitudes towards medicines and to determine what they are willing to teach children about medicines. This study is part of a larger project where medicine education materials accessible on the internet (www.uku.filaakekasvatus, in Finnish with English introduction) were designed,…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Focus Groups, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
What Schoolchildren Should Be Taught about Medicines: Combined Opinions of Children and Teachers
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Hameen-Anttila, Katri; Juvonen, Mirja; Ahonen, Riita; Bush, Patricia J.; Airaksinen, Marja – Health Education, 2005
Purpose: This study is part of a larger project, which aims to develop medicine education materials for teachers. The aim of the present study was to discover children's interests in medicines and teachers' opinions on what should be taught about medicines to children of different ages. Furthermore, teachers' opinions were assessed about the…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Comprehensive School Health Education, Focus Groups, Childhood Interests
Tobacco Prevention with Mississippi Elementary Teachers and Students
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Carver, Vivien; Reinert, Bonita; Range, Lillian M.; Campbell, Catherine – Health Education, 2005
Purpose: To examine a tobacco prevention elementary school project completed in 2000 in one rural state in the southeastern USA. Design/methodology/approach: Initially, 721 public school fourth through sixth grade teachers across Mississippi attended (for reimbursement) a tobacco prevention workshop that included curriculum-integrated material;…
Descriptors: Prevention, Workshops, Grade 6, Grade 5