Alternative Pedagogy Approaches in Physical Education and Health Education

This study aims to develop alternative pedagogical approaches to Physical Education and Health Education. The development of the alternative pedagogical approaches is based on 21st-century learning, Constructivism Theory, Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS), and Revised Bloom's Taxonomy. The research design used the pre-experimental one-shot case study method A sample of 65 Physical Education teachers was obtained through purposive sampling. The data were analyzed descriptively using mean and percentage. Subsequently, the effectiveness of the alternative pedagogical approaches and the interobserver agreement was evaluated using a questionnaire. The 8 alternative pedagogical approaches that have been developed include Music (95%), Commentary Review (85%), Plotter Sketch (95%), Body Metaphor (85%), Ideaspora (90%), Extrapolation (85%), Stage Play (85%), and Skimps (95%). The percentage of an interobserver agreement to use the alternative pedagogical approaches developed exceeds 70% agreement between the testers, and the value shows that it can be used. Overall, the developed alternative pedagogy approaches can be used as a guide for teachers to choose appropriate teaching methods during the teaching and learning process

Challenges in the management of a child with yolk sac tumour of the nasal cavity presenting with epistaxis and progressive respiratory distress

Yolk Sac tumour (YST) of the nasal cavity is extremely rare with only less than five previously reported cases in the English literature. Due to its rarity, the diagnosis is not one that is considered at initial presentation until tissue biopsies are sent for histopathological examination. Serum α-fetoprotein levels aid in diagnosis and in monitoring progression of the tumour. Being a very uncommon tumour of germ cell origin presenting as localized disease in the nasal cavity, prognosis and survival rates are difficult to determine. We are reporting a rare yolk sac tumour case in an infant and the challenges encountered in its management

Room temperature methoxylation in zeolites: insight into a key step of the methanol-to-hydrocarbons process

Neutron scattering methods observed complete room temperature conversion of methanol to framework methoxy in a commercial sample of methanol-to-hydrocarbons (MTH) catalyst H-ZSM-5, evidenced by methanol immobility and vibrational spectra matched by ab initio calculations. No methoxylation was observed in a commercial HY sample, attributed to the dealumination involved in high silica HY synthesis

Xenon-129 NMR study of the microporous structure of clays and pillared clays

{sup 129}Xe NMR studies have been carried out using xenon gas adsorbed in clays and pillared clays. Data from the measurements provide information on the pore structure of clays before and after pillaring. The results indicate that the effective pore diameter of montmorillonite increases, for example, from 5.4 {Angstrom} to 8.0 {Angstrom} after pillaring cheto-montmorillonite with aluminum polyoxohydroxy Keggin cations. The data are consistent with X-ray powder diffraction results, which show a corresponding increase in the interlamellar gallery height from 5.6 {Angstrom} to 8.4 {Angstrom}

North Atlantic Ocean Current Velocity

Three-dimensional General Circulation Models divide the ocean into a rectangular grid with layered vertical columns. This North Atlantic model uses a 1-6-degree grid with 37 layers. It captured 30 years of velocity, sea-surface temperature, and salinity. The model realistically separates the Gulf Stream from the Florida coast. A feature as small as the Gulf Stream had not appeared in lower-resolution models. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division, Graduate or professional