Supplemental Textbook Research Articles

Parent Institutions and Innovations in School Library Management in Nigeria: A Conceptual Review

School libraries have become vital resources of information that assist pupils, students, and staff in primary, secondary, and other non-tertiary institutions to appropriately respond to their varied information needs. They can be seen as indispensable facilities established with the objective of providing learning resources to enrich curriculum, supplement textbooks and classroom instruction and give users unlimited opportunities for learning. For any school library to remain relevant in this digital age and current climate, it has to be innovative. It has to the concern of parent institutions, “owners” to adopt cutting-age strategies to instill innovation into the management of school libraries. It is obvious that when school libraries receive proper attention from parent institutions, the school library resources, services, facilities, and physical environment, etc will be adequately innovated for desired patronage. This paper presents the conceptual description of school library and its imperatives. Innovation elements and roles of parent institutions in the school library management are highlighted. Implications, tools, and skills for innovation in school library management are extensively examined. The paper reveals factors affecting parent institutions and innovations in school library management. In conclusion, the paper establishes that for school libraries take their pride of place as learning hub, innovation must be embrace with all seriousness and sincerity by all stakeholders, especially the parent institutions. This study recommends among others, adequate funding of public school libraries in Nigeria and retooling of school librarians for effective implementation of innovative strategies.

The Development of a New Task-based Maritime Culture Content Multimedia Textbook for Vocabulary Instruction to Student Ability

It is crucial to understand that the concept that the best content should be accessible to communicative demands in everyday life is strongly emphasized in task-based language instruction (TBLT). In order to provide cohesive, engaging, current, and interesting teaching materials, or at the very least to prepare students for the primary textbook—a multimodal supplement that can include rich content from websites, games, social media, and other sources— research on teaching development is therefore necessary. The goal of this study is to put into practice a task-based, locally-based, multimodal supplemental textbook that is compatible.

Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America

For nearly a decade, I taught an advanced undergraduate seminar entitled “Apocalypse.” Among other things, the course considered how Christian and Jewish ideas about the end of human history have affected and even directed the behavior of believers. Jonathan Todd Hancock’s Convulsed States would have made an excellent supplemental textbook for that course.This work is framed around the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–1812, the epicenters of which were located near the town of New Madrid, Missouri, not far from the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. The quakes, at least one of which was probably a 7.0 on the Richter scale, were felt from Philadelphia to what is now western Nebraska, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a truly startling span of territory.Those who are attuned to end times speculation have long been inclined to see natural disasters as harbingers of the apocalypse. Hancock helpfully locates the earthquakes among a series of events, each of which alone would have jolted millenarians into a state of excited anticipation: the Great Comet of 1811; wars with Native Americans for control of the Northwest Territory; the outbreak of the War of 1812; and a massive fire that killed seventy-one people in Richmond, Virginia, including the state’s governor (17). Had these been insufficient to raise the anxiety of the faithful, “two charismatic religious figures laid out visions of destruction” that alarmed both white society and Native Americans.First was the 1807 prediction of Shawnee spiritual leader Tenskwatawa (also known as The Prophet) that earthquakes and other natural disasters would herald a “day of judgment” caused by the “white people [who] had taken possession of so much of the Indian country, and had lately killed so many Indians on the Wabash” (83). This book is remarkable in its thorough explication of the belief and governance systems of the indigenous people of the region, particularly the Shawnee, Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw, and how Tenskwatawa’s visions, supported by his brother Tecumseh’s aggressive militarism led to—among other things—the decline of intertribal cooperation. Second was the publication of Nimrod Hughes’s 1810 pamphlet, A Solemn Warning to All the Dwellers upon the Earth, an apocalyptic date-setting exercise based on Hughes’s interpretation of the Book of Daniel, combined with his understandings of numerology and kabbalism, in which he announced the coming apocalypse (59).Hancock aptly situates this confabulation in the context of the Second Great Awakening, which of course looms large in the history of American Methodism. “Methodist and Baptist conversions were common spiritual responses” to the earthquakes, he writes, identifying 1812 as a “watershed year for the growth of evangelicalism in the trans-Appalachian West” and crediting fears about the earthquakes for Methodism’s dramatic growth that year, with nearly 19,000 new members (61). He points out that more than 15,000 of those were in the Western Conference, where the quakes had significant impact and argues that conversions that year dramatically changed the organization of Methodism, leading to the creation of two new annual conferences. He also argues that John Wesley’s Serious Thoughts Occasioned by the Earthquake in Lisbon (1756) and other writings articulate his understanding that in the face of unfathomable catastrophe, humans should seek comfort from a loving God who receives the repentant with open arms.Hancock offers a thoughtful analysis of the dramatic end-times preaching of Lorenzo Dow, whose “sprawling theological treatise” published in 1812 identified ten signs of the coming “day of vengeance,” which included the power of the papacy, wars, famines, plagues, and, of course, earthquakes (75). My only criticism of this book is that the author does not connect Dow with Methodism. The eccentric evangelist’s tortuous relationship with the Methodists was somewhat tangential to Hancock’s argument. Still, since both Methodism and Dow are significant characters in the book, a brief acknowledgment of their connection might have been useful.

Development of Discovery Learning-Based Science Supplementary Textbooks to Improve Students' Creative Thinking

Students' inability to think creatively in scientific classes is the impetus for this study. An appropriate Discovery Learning-based Science Supplement Textbook is the goal of this research, as is a description of its ability to boost students' creative thinking on Heat and Transfer Themes. Borg Gall's theory is the basis for research and development. The study's target audience was fifth-graders in Metro Timur District elementary schools. Using the purposive sampling method, 28 students from class V were selected for the study. Mixed quantitative and qualitative methods were used in the data analysis process. The Discovery Learning-Based Science Supplement Textbook was found to be practicable and useful in enhancing students' creative thinking abilities. The validation results of material experts, media experts, and linguists may conclude that the project is feasible. According to the experimental class's pre-and post-test scores of creative thinking, the category "Effective Enough" achieved an N-gain of 61%. In general, the students' responses indicated that the Discovery Learning-based Science Supplementary Textbook could help students think more creatively, according to the findings.

“What Type of Blood Cell Are You?” Developing a Hematology Personality Quiz As a Learning Tool for First- and Second-Year Medical Students

Understanding hematologic cell types, their characteristics, and how they function physiologically and pathologically can be challenging to master, especially for first- or second-year medical students. The current mainstays of undergraduate medical education include lectures, PowerPoint, and supplemental textbook readings. Many learners retain information better when they feel connected to the content. Accordingly, we developed a hematology personality quiz as an innovative, fun, and memorable learning tool. Given that our intention was to focus on foundational hematology, we included thirteen common hematologic cell types as "results" for the quiz. These included erythrocyte, reticulocyte, platelet, neutrophil, eosinophil, basophil, mast cell, monocyte, natural killer cell, CD8+ T-cell, CD4+ T-cell, mature B-lymphocyte, and plasma cell. We generated personality traits that were complementary to each cell's form and function. Platelets, for example, are very sticky cells that rely on adhesion, activation, and aggregation to achieve primary hemostasis. We translated this function into a personality type that is outgoing/communicative, touchy-feely, and always trying to connect with others, noting that platelet personalities may get "stuck" on what others think. Erythrocytes, which deliver oxygen to tissues as they squeeze into and out of vessels, were matched with energetic and flexible personality types. Working backwards from the 13 cells/personality types, we generated 20 quiz questions whose results correlated with the cells' scientific properties and personality traits. Questions included "How long would you last in a zombie apocalypse?" as well as asking quiz takers whether they rely on "gut-feelings" or are more data driven when making decisions. The former corresponded to the average life span of the cell, the latter to the innate vs adaptive immune system. The number of questions was later reduced to 13 to eliminate redundancy. Our content was then integrated on a commercially available online quiz platform, using a frequency algorithm to generate results. Each answer corresponded to specific cell types. After answering the quiz questions, participants are paired with a single personality type that correlates with the majority of their selected responses. In addition to generating a complementary personality type, each result is coupled with information about the cell, an image of the cell under electron microscopy, as well as high yield clinical correlations. Faculty reviewed material for appropriate content. While the quiz generates one result, students have access to all thirteen results after completion. As part of our pilot phase, the quiz and a corresponding survey were sent to all first-year medical students during the hematology learning sequence as well as second-year medical students rotating on the internal medicine clerkship. Using a Likert scale, the participants were asked to rate their enjoyment of the quiz, how well their result matched their personality, whether it facilitated learning, whether they would use the comprehensive guide to study, and if it increased their interest in hematology. Our preliminary findings (tables 1 and 2) indicate that a hematology-based personality quiz can be a fun tool to promote learning. Disclosures Ahmed: Immunovant: Other: Institutional PI on industry initiated trial; Cadence: Other: Institutional PI on industry initiated trial.

The Engineering Dynamics Course Companion, Part 1: Particles: Kinematics and Kinetics

Engineering Dynamics Course Companion, Part 1: Particles: Kinematics and Kinetics is a supplemental textbook intended to assist students, especially visual learners, in their approach to Sophomore-level Engineering Dynamics. This text covers particle kinematics and kinetics and emphasizes Newtonian Mechanics Problem Solving Skills in an accessible and fun format, organized to coincide with the first half of a semester schedule many instructors choose, and supplied with numerous example problems. While this book addresses Particle Dynamics, a separate book (Part 2) is available that covers Rigid Body Dynamics.

The Engineering Dynamics Course Companion, Part 2: Rigid Bodies: Kinematics and Kinetics

Engineering Dynamics Course Companion, Part 2: Rigid Bodies: Kinematics and Kinetics is a supplemental textbook intended to assist students, especially visual learners, in their approach to Sophomore-level Engineering Dynamics. This text covers particle kinematics and kinetics and emphasizes Newtonian Mechanics Problem Solving Skills in an accessible and fun format, organized to coincide with the first half of a semester schedule many instructors choose, and supplied with numerous example problems. While this book addresses Rigid Body Dynamics, a separate book (Part 1) is available that covers Particle Dynamics.

Resources for the Biology Classroom

Reading Nature: Engaging Biology Students with Evidence from the Living World . By Matthew Kloser and Sophia Grathwol. 2018. National Science Teachers Association Press. (ISBN: 1681402807). 199 pp. Paperback, $24.95. Science concepts are based on evidence, but this may not be obvious to students taught with traditional texts. Information is presented without supporting data or the stories behind the discoveries. When students study DNA replication, they are expected to learn the steps and outcome of the process but not about how this was discovered. They will dutifully learn the fluid mosaic model of the cell membrane, but with no information about how scientists determined that this was an acceptable model. Reading Nature seeks to address this lapse, highlighted after the release of the Next Generation Science Standards in 2013, by providing structures to encourage students to ask “Why and how do we know that?” This supplemental textbook contains …

Aging in skin of color

Ethnic skin is quickly emerging as the norm in the United States, and as the population becomes more diverse, there is also a projected rise in the number of aging adults. Given the paucity of data regarding aging in ethnic skin, the authors have consolidated available information for this population. Literature examining structural and functional variation of aging in ethnic skin types was primarily found through PubMed and supplemental textbook chapters. Aging is comprised of two synergistic processes, intrinsic or chronologic aging, and extrinsic aging. Caucasian, African American, East Asian, and Hispanic skin each have distinguishing features of aging, but all populations share dyspigmentation, rhytides, and skin laxity. Increased melanin content predisposes skin of color to a greater degree of hyperpigmentation, but skin thickness may protect against the formation of rhytides. Tailored prevention and treatment are also paramount in attaining favorable outcomes for this growing cohort.

Exploring the Manifestation of Critical Thinking in the Moroccan Textbooks of English: The Case of "Ticket 2 English"

The purpose of this study was to explore whether Ticket 2 English, a Moroccan textbook of English, includes elements of critical thinking, which refers to the skill and disposition to select, collect, analyze, and evaluate information effectively. Descriptive analysis was employed to document instructions and activities that support the inclusion of critical thinking (CT) elements in the textbook. Results suggest that Ticket 2 English includes most of the skills found in Bloom’s taxonomy, important critical thinking dispositions, and some activities for teaching critical thinking. Yet, textbook designers need to supplement textbooks of English with additional activities, and high school teachers of English need to implement new teaching materials and practices to help enhance students’ level of critical thinking.

A guide to eyes: ophthalmic simulators

How computer-based surgical simulation can supplement textbooks, videos and wet-lab experience in surgical training.

Using Authentic Materials to Teach Varieties of German: Reflections on a Pedagogical Experiment

German is a language with multiple standard and non‐standard varieties (Fagan, ). Yet L2 textbooks still favor one standard form, offering little information about other varieties of the language. In particular, Austrian and Swiss Standard German are underrepresented, and even when present, the language is often in a mixture of dialect and standard varieties. This is an important limitation, since students who embark on study abroad programs will inevitably be confronted by different standard forms and dialects in spoken language (Lam & O'Brien, ). In order to help learners develop an awareness of varieties of German so that they can succeed in L2 environments, it is essential to supplement textbook materials with other resources. This article describes a ten‐week pedagogical experiment whose objective was to raise learners’ awareness of several spoken varieties of German (standards and dialects) through the use of authentic materials. An attitude survey revealed that the 18 participants viewed learning about German as a multi‐variable language positively. A critical review suggests, however, that not all teaching materials were equally effective in achieving the learning objectives.

Using Online Interactive Physics-based Video Analysis Exercises to Enhance Learning

As part of our new digital video age, physics students throughout the world can use smart phones, video cameras, computers and tablets to produce and analyze videos of physical phenomena using analysis software such as Logger Pro, Tracker or Coach. For several years, LivePhoto Physics Group members have created short videos of physical phenomena. They have also developed curricular materials that enable students to make predictions and use video analysis software to verify them. In this paper a new LivePhoto Physics project that involves the creation and testing of a series of Interactive Video Vignettes (IVVs) will be described. IVVs are short webbased assignments that take less than ten minutes to complete. Each vignette is designed to present a video of a phenomenon, ask for a student’s prediction about it, and then conduct on-line video observations or analyses that allow the user to compare findings with his or her initial prediction. The Vignettes are designed for web delivery as ungraded exercises to supplement textbook reading, or to serve as pre-lecture or pre-laboratory activities that span a number of topics normally introduced in introductory physics courses. A sample Vignette on the topic of Newton’s Third Law will be described, and the outcomes of preliminary research on the impact of Vignettes on student motivation, learning and attitudes will be summarized.

Teaching Special Topics in Public Administration Using Select Episodes of NBC’s West Wing to Support and Supplement Class Lecture and Textbook Readings

Using the award-winning series The West Wing, the author argues that education and entertainment can coincide comfortably, but not without a guided cross walk provided by the classroom instructor before, during (at particularly critical points), and after viewing the episode.

How Do Academic Disciplines Use PowerPoint?

How do academic disciplines use PowerPoint? This project analyzed PowerPoint files created by an academic publisher to supplement textbooks. An automated analysis of 30,263 files revealed clear differences by disciplines. Single-paradigm “hard” disciplines used less complex writing but had more words than multi-paradigm “soft” disciplines. The “hard” disciplines also used a greater number of small graphics and fewer large ones. Disciplines identified by students as being more effective users of PowerPoint used larger images and more complex sentences than disciplines identified as being less effective in this regard. This investigation suggests that PowerPoint best practices are not universal and that we need to account for disciplinary differences when creating presentation guidelines.

Realization of a Platform-Independent Web-Application for Engineering Education

In this paper an approach to realizing a web-based and interactive learning environment for engineering education is presented which is runnable on conventional desktop computers as well as on modern mobile devices such as tablets or smartphones. The presented course program is intended to supplement traditional lectures and text books at the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg.

On the book ``Branded lectures in mathematics'' by Marek Zakrzewski

The content of the book thus covers the basic issues of a fairly broadly defined field of mathematical analysis and in the author's opinion, ,,... can serve as a basic textbook for students of technical universities, as well as a supplemental textbook for students of mathematics, especially future teachers of this subject matter''.

The features and desirable direction of Elementary school Korean supplement textbook

The features and desirable direction of Elementary school Korean supplement textbook

An evaluation of websites to help neurosurgical trainees learn histopathology

Introduction. Knowledge of histopathology is essential for good neurosurgical practice but current pressures on neurosurgical trainees’ time restrict opportunities to learn histopathology by traditional methods. The internet offers a possible alternative resource. The aim of this project was to assess the existing, free, internet-based resources for learning histology and histopathology, from the perspective of a neurosurgical trainee. Methods. English language websites were evaluated by an expert, and by neurosurgical trainees, for the range of content, academic credibility, quality of the histopathological images, quality of supporting content, educational features and the usability. Results. Thirty-nine websites were examined in detail by the author. Although many websites were useful, no individual website met all the requirements. Five neuropathology websites were clearly superior to the others. These were then assessed by neurosurgical trainees. The results of the assessment, a brief resume of each website, and the characteristics of a good website for the surgical trainees to learn pathology are discussed. Conclusions. The best websites featured a large number of high-quality images, accurate, detailed clinical and pathophysiological information, labelling or description of individual images, and organisation by organ system. Free internet sites can offer a valuable learning resource to supplement textbooks and clinical pathology sessions.

Dirty Water: One Man’s Fight to Clean Up One of the World’s Most Polluted Bays

Review: Dirty Water: One Man’s Fight to Clean Up One of the World’s Most Polluted Bays By Bill Sharpsteen Reviewed by Ryder W. Miller Sharpsteen, Bill. Dirty Water: One Man's Fight to Clean Up One of the World's Most Polluted Bays. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010. 288pp. ISBN 9780520256606. US$27.50,cloth. Alkaline paper. Los Angeles reporter Bill Sharpsteen presents here in a dramatic telling the somewhat successful efforts by Heal the Bay to clean up and protect Santa Monica Bay. This Los Angeles story with cinematic potential provides an environmental case study which has ramifications for all of the California coast and the oceans everywhere. Even though it was too late to remove the municipal and industrial waste that was pumped into Santa Monica Bay, the tides turned and efforts by activists turned this into a California environmental success story. Though well told, the story is historical, taking place in the mid 1980s and to some extent the accounts are at the mercy of the actor's memories. Sharpsteen also does not spare his criticism, even for some of the heroes of the story, but there is not a lot of self-deprecation here which seems wanted at some points. Some will find Sharpsteen annoying when he questions everybody's verisimilitude. The book does provide fascinating descriptions of the key folks involved. Sharpsteen succeeds at sharing elements of the life stories of the key actors and their motivations. There are the scientists, whistleblowers, concerned citizens, activists, politicians, bureaucrats, legislators, and journalists. Though about pollution, which is often a downer of a subject, the account is compelling and inspirational. At stake was efforts by municipal governments to get a waiver from needing to put all sewage disposed through secondary treatment, a cost which Los Angeles County sought to avoid. Some scientists felt that sewage dumped out to sea would biodegrade and result in more food for sea life, but there was also a lot of DDT discharged before efforts were made not to use it anymore. The sewage also contained assorted dangerous chemicals. Though the battle is over, the clean up is not fully over and the problem is not fully solved. This book would serve as a useful contribution to the study of Los Angeles's environmental history. The book would also be helpful for those studying cceanography, sewage treatment, and toxicology. As a textbook it would also be helpful for beginning students of environmental studies who would like to have a deeper understanding of the roles that they can play. This work can help clarify for students they what part they would like to take in this field if so inclined. This book could also serve as a supplemental textbook for an environmental journalism class. It would help reporters who seek to understand the process of fighting for environmental change. Depicted here are the strengths and motivations of many of the key players involved in the process of fighting for a clean Santa Monica Bay in the 1980s, and can serve as a useful case study. As such it would also be helpful for environmental education students. There is also mention of the roles that journalists play in these efforts. As Sharpsteen points out, it's that symbiotic relationship between protester and reporter that gets the most done (p.89) and recognizing that when all else fails, you must get a reporter to stir the pot (p.112). Whistleblower Dave Brown, probably the biggest hero, the innocent party who lost the most, was to reflect from his experiences: Although years later Brown says he doesn't regret any of what happened, he was briefly stunned by the circus he entered that day (p.130), but “he was just a scientist trying to get the information out (p.131). This upbeat Los Angeles story could make an inspiring movie. The degraded ocean still inspires, as Sharpsteen eloquently writes, If nothing else, all one had to do was turn one's back to the east and face the ocean. One could easily fool oneself into believing nothing else existed. (p.4). Ryder W. Miller , Freelance environmental and science reporter who has been published in Sierra Magazine, California Coast & Ocean, California Wild, and Hydrosphere. Electronic Green Journal, Issue 30, Spring 2010, ISSN:1076-7975