A demonstration pod and method for demonstrating dental situation and procedures. By way of example, a Sonipod demonstrates the effectiveness of an electric toothbrush and provides for educating a dental patient on proper brushing techniques to promote healthy oral hygiene. The instructional display includes a simulated tooth and gum assembly within a partially liquid filled chamber. High frequency brush movements create cavitations in the liquid of the chamber. The display also preferably inclu...

An instructive device for use in driver education and driver improvement applications for testing perception and reaction times of a student, and for measuring the student'perception and reaction time as influenced by simulated conditions of blood alcohol concentrations; and relating the measured perception and reaction time of the student to vehicular stopping times and distances under various combinations of road surface conditions and vehicular speeds.

A new realistic, inexpensive, adaptable, and portable driver education method that mimics the effects of intoxication in the participants through utilization of a simplified optics device in the form of specialized eyeglasses having binocular, manually-spinnable fresnel prism lenses is provided. The spinnable optics device simulates most of the toxic effects on the central nervous system which are induced by excess alcohol and/or drugs of abuse, resulting in distorted vision and spatial disorien...

An educational aid designed to assist young children in the learning of a second language. The device consists of a recessed game board, a word grid and a set of jigsaw puzzle pieces. The word grid is in the form of a crossword like pattern of words given in two languages. The word grid is fitted into the recessed area of the game board with the jigsaw puzzle pieces designed for assembly over the word grid. The jigsaw puzzle when completed forms a picture covering all of the word grid except for...

A board game apparatus is provided which is intended to facilitate communication between parents and children regarding facts and attitudes in the area of human sexuality and to provide learning experiences which will lead to improved communication between parents and their children and adults and young people. The apparatus includes a plurality of player tokens, a game board having a closed continuous path defined by a multiplicity of playing spaces, and three decks of cards, each of which cont...

A body exercising and re-education apparatus comprises a plane face adapted to support a user's back and a triangular pad mounted facing said plane face on a screw by means of which the pad can apply a static pressure against the user's abdomen. The apparatus also includes means for holding down the user's shoulders and means for supporting his back with a dynamic pressure. In addition it can include a pair of pivoted channel-pieces for receiving the user's arms and progressively moving them tog...

An advanced software package for cost accounting and analysis, management reporting, performance assessment and decision support tool is described. The IN$ITE.TM. software package collects, organizes, manages and consolidates financial data and permits the standardized evaluation and comparison of different educational institutions. The software package implements the Finance Analysis Model For Education as a relational database for the efficient and cost-effective management of educational inst...

Educational devices using process-oriented educational methods are disclosed to prepare pre-school children, school children, and teenagers for keyboarding. The devices include sets of gloves and indicia applied to the fingers of the gloves to provide pictorial and alphanumeric representations of the computer keyboard. The visual and tactile memorization of the glove images are complemented by auditory and associative memorization provided by a story-telling educational method. Synergistic use o...

A patient medical information and education container which includes a strip of material divided into a plurality of panels hingedly connected one with another whereby the panels can be folded one upon another to form a container of relatively small dimensions, the strip including a pocket on one of the panels adapted to contain cards including, on one face, medicine nature and suggestions concerning recommended use thereof by a patient for optimal results, the opposite side preferably will incl...

A system and method for rewarding educational accomplishment is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes providing rewards to a user, such as a child, for achievement of one or more goals within an educational activity. The rewards are preferably credit in a form that is widely accepted by merchants and other entities for items, such as goods and services, that they offer. Preferably, information associating the user and items the user purchases with the credit is used to create a purchas...