This study, focusing on the importance of encouraging outdoor activities for children, aims to propose and implement a Web-GIS based outdoor education program for junior high schools, which will then be evaluated by users. Specifically, for the purpose of improved outdoor activities in the junior high school education, the outdoor education program, with chiefly using the Web-GIS that provides ...

PROBLEM/CONDITION School health education (e.g., classroom instruction) is an essential component of school health programs; such education promotes the health of youth and improves overall public health. REPORTING PERIOD February-May 1998. DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM The School Health Education Profiles monitor characteristics of health education in middle or junior high schools and senior high ...

In our ICT activities in junior high schools pupils program the RCX and NXT Lego bricks using a Logo-like language supplemented by a program development environment specifically implemented for young students. In their first programs, pupils mainly aim at moving their autonomous robots. We describe how teachers and pupils have analyzed with us a number of robot programs, performing a static ana...

Using data from Indonesia, this paper evaluates the impact of school type on academic achievement of junior secondary school students (grades 7-9). Students that graduate from public junior secondary schools, controlling for a variety of other characteristics, score 0.15 to 0.3 standard deviations higher on the national exit exam than comparable privately-schooled peers. This finding is robust ...

background: investing in the health of children in learning situation is one of the most important health interventions. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of health promoting schools in improving the health status of schools in urmia, north west of iran.methods and materials: this interventional study was conducted on 155 schools executing the health promoting schools program th...

Prolonged fatigue among elementary and junior high school teachers not only damages their health but also affects the quality of education. The aim of this study was to determine the factors of working conditions associated with prolonged fatigue among teachers at public elementary and junior high schools. We distributed a self-reported, anonymous questionnaire to 3,154 teachers (1,983 in eleme...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to clarify the relationship between feeling upon awakening (FA) and time spent using information technology (IT) devices by children in kindergartens, elementary schools, and junior high schools in Shimane, Japan. METHODS In October 2008, a self-report survey was distributed to 2075 children in kindergartens (n = 261), elementary schools (n = 1162), ...

OBJECTIVE The possibility that smoking prevalence among junior and senior high school students may decrease with increasing mobile phone bill was reported by the mass media in Japan. We conducted a nationwide survey on adolescent smoking and mobile phone use in Japan in order to assess the hypothesis that mobile phone use has replaced smoking. METHODS A total of 70 junior high schools (respon...