David Goldstein David813G School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences University of Washington Bothell I publish and teach in the fields of American ethnic studies (especially literature) and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
This shelf also includes Literature Circles and Book Clubs, all similar instructional approaches.
Information related to Children's Literature that does not fit into genres or picturebooks. NOTE! If your site is related to a particular topic such as Books about the Holocaust, please shelve in T...
Intro to research methods review paper. A review of the literature related to food and recess in education.
This shelf is for the growing body of literature on our gut microbes and their impact on our health.
Includes texts, poems, and literature websites as well as instructional approaches using poetry. Poetry is often used with the Shared Reading approach.
This shelf includes all types of folklore and folk tales- nursery rhymes, fairy tales, folktales (including animal tales, trickster tales, and noodlehead tales), fables, hero tales: epics and legen...
Stories originally told aloud to captivate listeners. Overtime as stories were passed down and retold, they evolved. These oldest stories include: nursery rhymes, folktales, myths, epics, legends, ...
Cross-country racing barefoot is becoming popular all over the world. This article is a literature review to prove to the audience why running barefoot is more beneficial than running with shoes,...
1. Critic Roland Barthes has said, "Literature is the question minus the answer." Choose a novel or play and considering Barthes' observation, write an essay in which you analyze a central question...
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Literature related to Hypertension & Pregnancy (and other cardiovascular factors).
Literature related to underlying physiology of risk factors relating to regulatory factors.
Literature pertaining to the factors found and those factors expressed in functional movement training and other mediums.
Objectives: The purpose of this review was to examine the relationship between exercise dose and reductions in weight gain during pregnancy in exercise interventions. Design: Systematic literatur...
Angular Kinematics at Play in the Golf Swing Angular kinematics was the focus of this week’s readings, and several students used the golf swing to illustrate these principles at work in sport ...
literature review by WA State Department of Commerce for broadband report
This paper is a literature review of 5 research articles that investigate the kinematics and kinetics of different running conditions including barefoot, minimalist, or shod running.
Many people may recognize the title The Hunger Games from the theatrical blockbusters released over the past few years. However, the teen book trilogy-turned-movie is also being used as course mate...
A discussion of the representations of dystopian societies in film and literature.
Video clip of literature discussion of The Outsiders. The approach being used is Literature Circles that incorporates cooperative instruction roles.
This website contains wonderful ideas on how to set up literature circles in first grade!
This teacher answers some FAQs about using literature circles in the classroom.
Teachers model a literature circle, including the roles each student may have.
Can setting short and long term goals help with changing behavior in regards to dietary and physical activity, a review of the literature.
Migration, with its basic expression, is the act of people to move from their locations to another location due to economic, social, political and cultural motives. It is possible to describe the a...
Searching for Animal Sentience: A Systematic Review of the Scientific Literature
Angular Kinematics at Play in the Golf Swing Angular kinematics was the focus of this week’s readings, and several students used the golf swing to illustrate these principles at work in sport ...
Strategic Management is a course that forces students to look outside of the scholarly literature and really see how the business operates. There are lots of resources that can help the student be...
Emotional stress can either precipitate or exacerbate both acute and chronic asthma. There is a large body of literature available on the use of relaxation techniques for the treatment of asthma sy...
Date: November 20, 2013 Source: Taylor & Francis Summary: Numerous studies have reported that women outperform men when it comes to face recognition faces, but most have focused on assessing i...
A number of debilitating lower extremity injuries were addressed during this week’s readings. Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain, so I wanted to supplement this week’s text wi...
Jonathan A. Forbes, Scott Zuckerman, Adib A. Abla, J Mocco, Ken Bode, Todd Eads
The science behind healing a wounded body — mentally or physically — can be complicated, intricate and something that not everyone understands. Pages upon pages of complex words and with even mo...
One of the most remarkable papers I have read in the psychiatric literature was about a 57 year old woman who was treated with months of both antipsychotic and antidepressant medications and given ...
The aims of this paper are to focus attention on operant technology, a component of behavior modification, as an effective technology with potential uses in sport and physical education and to ...
The effectiveness of plyometric exercises in improving jumping performance has been well documented in a large body of literature [18]. One possible mechanism explaining the efficacy of plyometrics...
Researchers over the last twenty years have made astounding advances in the theory of language acquisition. Many find the pedagogical conjoining of language and music compelling. The first part of ...
The purpose of this article is to describe the phenomenon of choking in sport, and suggest a process approach to managing competitive pressure and choking (based on the sport, cognitive, and clinic...
The purpose of this article is to describe the phenomenon of choking in sport, and suggest a process approach to managing competitive pressure and choking (based on the sport, cognitive, and clin...
Great original source at the bottom. Need to check this out: Nietzsche, Life As Literature, Alexander Nehamas, Havard University Press,1994
The health benefits of green tea for a wide variety of ailments, including different types of cancer, heart disease, and liver disease.
The effectiveness of plyometric exercises in improving jumping performance has been well documented in a large body of literature [18]. One possible mechanism explaining the efficacy of plyometrics...
Looks at research with respect to genetics and sports performance. Well written with research notes so you can read the original literature.
Abstract Background: The purpose was to: 1) perform a systematic review of studies examining the relation between physical activity, fitness, and health in school-aged children and youth, and 2) m...
The purpose of this study is to highlight literature concerning the effects of music therapy on children with disabilities. The paper is organized in the following sections: (1) background of music...
"Get 1000 free online courses from the world’s leading universities — Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Oxford and more. You can download these audio & video courses (often from iTunes, YouT...
Angular Kinematics at Play in the Golf Swing Angular kinematics was the focus of this week’s readings, and several students used the golf swing to illustrate these principles at work in sport ...
Pollution is explained in more material by material, case by case, type by type, detail here than in any other form of literature that I have found. Or at least any form of literature that isn't in...
During this week of biomechanics we learned about the functional anatomy of the shoulder. This article is relevant because it touches base on how shoulder abduction involves a variety of movements....
This is probably my favorite article that I found while doing my literature review this past week. I did already have a little bit of background with the topic of barefoot running but I definitely ...
This is a literature review of various peer-reviewed studies on lower back pain. The article does a nice job of presenting information on the benefits of strength, flexibility, and aerobic trainin...
The literature on learning to walk and what it teaches us about normal development is fascinating and extensive, and controversial in many regards; many researchers disagree on the obligatory natur...
The article I chose this week was titled, “Risk factors associated with medial tibial stress syndrome in runners: a systematic review and meta-analysis.” It was written by Newman, Witchalls, Wadd...
A number of debilitating lower extremity injuries were addressed during this week’s readings. Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain, so I wanted to supplement this week’s text wi...
This, along with any descriptive literature, is simply an awesome read. This directly ties in with this weeks lessons with angular kinematics. This article specifically gives examples of various dr...
Creatine monohydrate is arguably the most researched ergogenic aid (maybe caffeine). I personally use creatine and I think it helps out somewhat. It is relatively inexpensive compared to most oth...
When negotiating research papers synthesizing peer reviewed articles with the premise of one's expository, it is wise to take an extra hour or so ensuring the research article identified is reliabl...
Nutrition labels have been nearly the same since their humble beginning in the 1970s. Now, with more people eating processed foods, there is a demand for food labels to contain more relevant inform...
The benefits of maintaining a balanced and healthy diet seem obvious, however, given the unhealthy nature of the typical U.S. diet, it seems this understanding has been mostly ignored. Within this ...
Despite the fact that a journalist is trying to summarize the scientific literature, I think the general idea here is sound - that diet influences weight more than activity, but people often confus...
This was an interesting read about the effects of these masks. I have seen several people wearing them. Do not think this trend has caught on to avid recreational athletes. However, more elite styl...
This is the qualifier: "First, a child or adolescent must successfully master the introductory exercises using submaximal loads. Weights are added only under strict, qualified supervision, such as ...
What I like most about this article is although it doesn't display a lot of literature, the main focus is making sure the message of dietary weight loss pills are not for everyone. A lot of us loo...
This video is a perfect visual of the "manipulative skills" we have discussed. I'm a very visual learner, so this video helped me tie together the literature I'd read and the lecture I'd heard. The...
As we get older, there are so many questions on how we treat frailty and how might we prevent it. Discussed in the video above as in lecture, successful aging refers to the physical, mental, and so...
Continuing the conversation relating to the greenhouse effect and more specifically global warming, this article looks in particular at the rise in sea levels. The article denotes a number of major...
This video, courtesy of Hank Green and Crash Course, is one from a series of 12 from their playlist on ecology, so basically a nice 12 video long list of all you need to know about the environment ...
This article discusses one's Sense of Belonging and how that ties into Psychological Health. In class this week, we discussed that a firm sense of belonging was one of the 5 basic psychological ne...
I was fascinated to find in the reading that their at 25 different types of crawls and creeps documented in literature! This article gives an in depth description of childhood locomotor skill devel...
While this is not a particularly lengthy article or a primary source, it provided me a great starting point towards our lab about the wrist. I could not possibly find any literature on the matter o...
When I found this article as one of the articles to review for my literature review it reminded me of one of our forum posts that discussed the different types of strides. My classmates and I discu...
This article is a good literature review of a study examining the optimal amount of plyometric training to still gain benefit from the exercise but not overtrain. Plyometrics are important and what...
This article reinforced current literature in class that the link between sound mind and body may play a significant role in one's susceptibility to chronic disease and constant compromised immune ...
This is a literature review of different characteristics that can lead to peak performance. One of the best being goal-setting. It includes many other methods that elite athletes also use.
This was a literature review of Olympic athletes and what psychological attributes they have as well as what have influenced them and their training. It touched on the nature vs nurture argument a...
Yes it is a tool - but it all depends on how the tool is used and we are not learning to use this tool in a moderate or healthy way. Look at the literature on what these tools are doing to our bra...
Recently I have spending time learning about isometrics and the potential use outside of just a rehabilitation setting. I found this literature review very useful because it provided multiple pract...