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The Integration Of School Garden Programs Into Educational Curriculum, Annie Lowry
The Integration Of School Garden Programs Into Educational Curriculum, Annie Lowry
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School gardens have many benefits for students which include helping students make nutritious choices, encouraging students to be environmentally conscious, and providing experiential learning. School gardens have great potential to be an effective learning tool if incorporated into the classroom. The purpose of this project is to evaluate how gardening is being integrated into classroom curriculum in several schools in the state of Illinois and what factors have led to this integration. Educational professionals from seven different sites were interviewed to collect qualitative data about current integration of gardening into school curriculum. The results from the interviews confirm previous research …
Patient Profile: A Comprehensive Study Of The Reasons For Visit As Well As The Sex And Age Distributions Of Patients Seen In A Kankakee General Practicioner's Office Between The Months Of May And July, Jennifer A. Kershaw
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The goal of this project was to examine the patients that a general practitioner (GP) sees in a given time period and to chart their characteristics in order to better understand the mosaic of patients seen in such a practice. Comprising this profile are answers to the following questions: Are females or males seen more frequently in the GP’s office? What is the distribution of ages seen most frequently? What are the most common presenting symptoms? Data was collected via survey from the office of Dr. Rodney Alford in Kankakee, IL between May 10, 2010 and July 10th, 2010. When …