Sorensen, Julie A. (author), Jenkins, Paul L. (author), Emmelin, Maria (author), Stenlund, Hans (author), Weinehall, Lars (author), Earle-Richardson, Giulia B. (author), and May, John J. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2011-04
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Box 139 Document Number: D05944
5 pages., Retrieved online by open access., Authors devised this game for use in environmental education as a resource that bridged the gap between ideological worlds of protecting and conserving environments and that of profit margins and commercial decision making. Reported as being found successful with students at secondary school level. Beyond environmental education, it touches on cross-curricular themes of citizenship, health education, economic nd industrial understanding, and commercial decision making.
search through journal, University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension provides educational programming through various methods of delivery. As part of the Family Community Education (FCE) Program, Extension specialists provide leader training lessons to Extension educators and assistants. Survey data were collected from Extension educators and assistants involved in the FCE Program to find out their needs involving the delivery of leader training lessons. The data revealed that satellite broadcast is a viable source to deliver leader training lessons and other programming material to Extension educators and assistants throughout Nebraska. Sixty-three percent of the respondents preferred satellite delivery, as opposed to 35 percent who liked in-person training at district meetings.
