The unit is designed for seventh grade students who have been studying Earth and its atmosphere. In this sequence, students are faced with the realistic issue of personal and social decision-making when planning for hurricane strikes, which includes classification, tracking, and monitoring hurricanes, as well as planning for evacuations. The inquiry-based approach involves a WebQuest in which the learner will assume the role of an emergency management team member who must create a preparation plan for the community.

This course introduces theoretical and practical principles of design of oceanographic sensor systems. Topics include: transducer characteristics for acoustic, current, temperature, pressure, electric, magnetic, gravity, salinity, velocity, heat flow, and optical devices; limitations on these devices imposed by ocean environments; signal conditioning and recording; noise, sensitivity, and sampling limitations; and standards. Lectures by experts cover the principles of state-of-the-art systems being used in physical oceanography, geophysics, submersibles, acoustics. For lab work, day cruises in local waters allow students to prepare, deploy and analyze observations from standard oceanographic instruments.

School governors need to be involved in the monitoring and evaluation of primary schools. But what areas should you be monitoring and how can you ensure that monitoring is effective. This unit will help you assess these matters and also look at the kind of evidence you should be sourcing, and how that evidence should be evaluated.

School governors need to be involved in the monitoring and evaluation of secondary schools. But what areas should you be monitoring and how can you ensure that monitoring is effective. This unit will help you assess these matters and also look at the kind of evidence you should be sourcing, and how that evidence should be evaluated.

The South African Child Gauge is a special book about children in South Africa. It is put together every year by the Children's Institute at the University of Cape Town and helps people understand what needs to be done to improve the lives of all children in South Africa. The book is divided into three parts: Children and Law Reform, Children and Social Services, Part Three: Children Count - The Numbers.

The South African Child Gauge, published yearly by the Children's Institute at the University of Cape Town, has three parts: Children and Law Reform, Meaningful Access to Basic Education, and Children Count-The Numbers. Children and Law Reform discusses recent legislative developments affecting children, including commentary on the Child Justice Act, the Criminal Law Sentencing Amendment Act, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, policy developments in education, the Regulations to the Children's Act as amended, the Social Service Professions Bil,l and Regulations to the Social Assistance Act. Meaningful Access to Basic Education presents a series of nine essays that examine children's right to education and what is required to ensure meaningful access to basic education in South Africa. Essays focus on the right to education, meaningful access, budgetary frameworks, and school fee waivers, children who are out of school, the relationship between poverty and exclusion partnerships between schools and communities, and what is required to build a strong foundation in numeracy and literacy. Children Count-The Numbers updates a set of key indicators on childrens socio-economic rights and comments on the extent to which these rights have been realised. The indicators track the demographics of child care arrangements and their access to social assistance, education, healthcare services, housing, water, sanitation and electricity.

The South African Child Gauge is produced annually by the Children Institute University of Cape Town to monitor government and civil society progress towards realising the rights of children This issue focuses on child health. The South African Child Gauge is divided into three parts: PART ONE Children and law reform. Part one discusses recent legislative developments affecting child health In this issue there is commentary on the Children's Act the Prevention of and Treatment for Substance Abuse Act provincial health legislation Tobacco Products Control Amendment Acts regulations to the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and new regulations to the Social Assistance Act. PART TWO: Healthy children From survival to optimal development. Part two presents a series of 12 essays Essays one and two set the scene by examining children's rights to health and the status of child health in South Africa Then come three essays that look at key health challenges and how to address them HIV and TB malnutrition mental health and risk behaviour These are followed by four essays that examine how to strengthen the health care system's response to childhood illness and injury This includes defining a package of basic health care services managing resources and building capacity providing child and family-friendly services and strengthening community based programmes The next essay shows how the roots of childhood illness and injury often lie outside the health care system and calls for concerted action to address the social determinants of health Two further essays point the way forward In the first the Minister of Health describes his vision for child health in South Africa The second draws on the findings presented in the earlier essays to outline recommendations for a system and a society that support child health PART THREE Children Count the numbers Part three updates a set of key indicators on children's socioeconomic rights and provides commentary on the extent to which these rights have been realised The indicators are a special subset selected from the website www.childrencount.ci.org.za

This collection of papers focused on the theme 'Healthy children: From survival to optimal development' can be used for independent study/research or for integration into child development curriculum. The South African Child Gauge is produced annually by the Children's Institute, University of Cape Town to monitor government and civil society's progress towards realising the rights of children. This issue focuses on child health. The South African Child Gauge is divided into three parts: PART ONE: Children and law reform Part one discusses recent legislative developments affecting child health. In this issue there is commentary on the Children's Act, the Prevention of and Treatment for Substance Abuse Act, provincial health legislation, Tobacco Products Control Amendment Acts, regulations to the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and new regulations to the Social Assistance Act. PART TWO: Healthy children: From survival to optimal development Part two presents a series of 12 essays. Essays one and two set the scene by examining children's rights to health and the status of child health in South Africa. Then come three essays that look at key health challenges and how to address them: HIV and TB; malnutrition; mental health and risk behaviour. These are followed by four essays that examine how to strengthen the health care system's response to childhood illness and injury. This includes defining a package of basic health care services; managing resources and building capacity; providing child- and family-friendly services; and strengthening community-based pro-grammes. The next essay shows how the roots of childhood illness and injury often lie outside the health care system, and calls for concerted action to address the social determinants of health. Two further essays point the way forward. In the first, the Minister of Health describes his vision for child health in South Africa. The second draws on the findings presented in the earlier essays to outline recommendations for a system and a society that support child health. PART THREE: Children Count -- the numbers Part three updates a set of key indicators on children's socio-economic rights and provides commentary on the extent to which these rights have been realised.

The South African Child Gauge is a special book about children in South Africa. It is put together every year by the Childrens' Institute at the University of Cape Town and helps people understand what needs to be done to improve the lives of all children in South Africa. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 looks at laws and policies that affect children, Part 2 takes a closer look at a particular topic such as health or education, Part 3 looks at numbers on children's access to schools, clinics, social grants, and other services. The sixth issue of South African Child Gauge looks at childrens' right to participate and to have a say in decisions that affect them.