This textbook includes chapters 1-6 from “Understanding the Whole Child: Prenatal Development Through Adolescence“, then chapters 1-4 from “Observation and Assessment“, and chapters 1-2, 7, 9, and 11 from “The Role of Equity and Diversity in Early Childhood Education“. “Understanding the Whole Child: Prenatal Development Through Adolescence” by Jennifer Paris, Antoinette Ricardo, and Dawn Rymond, College of the Canyons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 / A derivative from the original work. This adapted edition is produced by Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. This adaptation has not significantly altered or updated the 2019 text other than removing chapters which will not be used in this class and formatting for accessibility. This work is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution license.

This course outline examines topics of importance to educators participating in instructional design projects. Topics include needs assessment, adult learning principles, learning objectives, instructional strategies, assessment, implementation and evaluation. Learners will develop a course using media and open educational resources while observing copyright and plagiarism guidelines.

The "Into the Book" web site is designed to help elementary students practice eight reading comprehension strategies through playful interactive activities. The site focuses on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. "Behind the Lesson," the teacher area of the site, provides information, lesson plans and other resources for teachers.

This activity is an introductory activity where students observe the characteristics of ionic compounds and crystals They also work on making observations and writing hypotheses.

This book was written to provide students with an introduction to the field of education. The book is broken into chapters that focus on questions students may have about education in general. Although some chapters may go into more depth than others, this is created as an introductory text.

Designed for an introductory course, this textbook takes a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of LGBTQ+ issues that helps students grasp core concepts through a variety of different perspectives.

Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies offers accessible, academically sound information on a wide range of topics, including history, culture, and Queer Theory; an exploration of LGBTQ+ relationships, families, parenting, health, and education; and how to conduct research on LGBTQ+ topics. The book explores LGBTQ+ issues from the ancient world to contemporary global perspectives.

Employing an intersectional analysis, the textbook highlights how sexuality and gender are simultaneously experienced and constructed through other structures of inequality and privilege, such as race and class. The text supports multiple learning styles by integrating visual elements, multimedia resources, discussion and project prompts, and resources for further research throughout the textbook.

This activity is an experiment where students learn about angles of reflection and use that knowledge to reflect a light beam around obstacles to a target across the classroom.

This activity is a combination outdoor/indoor lab where students will collect natural materials from the environment and use them to create both a mold and cast model of a fossil. Students will learn how a fossil is formed and why scientists use models to help them understand how things work and develop.

This article discusses the reading instruction strategy of predicting and shows how it applies to science learning in the elementary school grades. It appears in the free online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which provides a first introduction to the Seven Essential Principles of Climate Literacy.

Drawings and animations, are used to help participants understand the differences between and steps involved in mitosis and meiosis. The cell cycle as well as individual steps of mitosis and meiosis are included in this learning material.

Students will follow the scientific method for self discovery of the nature of the land around the school to then determine as a class what plants and grasses would flourish in the area.

This is shell is a single place to find openly licensed resources developed for Early Childhood Education courses in health, safety, and nutrition. This includes a course outline that resources were developed for, the textbook in English, an assessment library, a video library, and sample modules for an online class. This resource will be updated with additional a complete online class once it is available.

Online Statistics: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study is an introductory-level statistics book. The material is presented both as a standard textbook and as a multimedia presentation. The book features interactive demonstrations and simulations, case studies, and an analysis lab.

The curated collection of OER provided below was developed by the ASCCC OERI CDEV/ECE Discipline Lead. If you are interested on how available OER might be used to develop an associate degree for transfer that is a zero textbook cost (ZTC) degree in either of these disciplines, please see:

OER and the Child and Adolescent Development TMC
OER and the Early Childhood Education TMC

(This case study was added to OER Commons as one of a batch of over 700. It has relevant information which may include medical imagery, lab results, and history where relevant. A link to the final diagnosis can be found at the end of the case study for review. The first paragraph of the case study -- typically, but not always the clinical presentation -- is provided below.)

A 78 year old right handed male presented with dysphagia particularly for liquids and dysarthria for the last four months. He was recently under evaluation for his fairly new onset anemia and renal failure in a private clinic. He denied any headaches, visual problems, fainting or any word finding difficulty. His past medical history was significant for ischemic heart disease, hypertension, bronchitis and kidney stones. The most prominent findings on physical exam were left sided lower (VIII-XII) cranial nerve palsies. Laboratory tests revealed an anemia with hemoglobin of 7.8 g/dl and a serum creatinine of 8.1 mg/dl. The Brain MRI demonstrated a left posterior fossa hyper-intense extra-axial mass extending into the left jugular foramen. (Figure 1). The differential based on the location was paraganglioma, schwannoma and meningioma. The patient underwent a sub-occipital biopsy of the lesion.

(This case study was added to OER Commons as one of a batch of over 700. It has relevant information which may include medical imagery, lab results, and history where relevant. A link to the final diagnosis can be found at the end of the case study for review. The first paragraph of the case study -- typically, but not always the clinical presentation -- is provided below.)

26 year old female presented with a 3-4 week history of pharyngitis, odynophagia and dysphagia. She had initially been treated with two courses of Augmentin (amox/clav) and one course of Avelox (moxifloxacin), and her symptoms seemed to improve, but then came back to the point where she was having trouble swallowing and had airway problems, with a fever as high as 104.7F.

(This case study was added to OER Commons as one of a batch of over 700. It has relevant information which may include medical imagery, lab results, and history where relevant. A link to the final diagnosis can be found at the end of the case study for review. The first paragraph of the case study -- typically, but not always the clinical presentation -- is provided below.)

The patient is a Caucasian male in his 50s with a past medical history of hypertension complaining of "fever, headache, and sore throat." The patient stated that his symptoms began with a sore throat approximately five days prior to admission, followed by fever with a Tmax of 38oC and headache one day prior to admission. He described the headache as moderate to severe in intensity, sharp in nature, and unilateral, being present on the right maxillary and mandibular areas of his face, with radiation to the right neck. He denied cough, dyspnea, photophobia, rash, rhinorrhea, dysphagia, diarrhea, recent travel or sick contacts.

The patient's only outpatient medications are anti-hypertensives. He has chewed tobacco for over 30 years. He denied intravenous or other illicit drug use. Family history is noncontributory.

Physical examination revealed a temperature of 38.3oC, respiratory rate 15, pulse 99, blood pressure 182/110 and pulse oximetry 98% on room air. The remainder of the exam was negative except for poor dentition and pain with palpation of the right mandible and right submandibular region. There was no meningismus, neurologic deficits, or heart murmurs.

Laboratory results were significant for a white blood cell count of 12.5 x 109/L with 91% neutrophils and 4% lymphocytes.

Plant water relations are presented in this learning activity to help participants understand the components of water potential, explain how water moves through plants, provide examples of plant adaptations to water stress, and have a general understanding of how water potential can be measured.

Intern Prescot Nelson at Succinct Psychology (Psychcinct), under the guidance of professor Daniel Reynolds, created the entire course series for the Psych2e Openstax textbook. We are allowing everyone to share and embed this resource.