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Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...out some ‘potential biases’...Physical activity: a family affair: 4 Theoretical perspectives of participation - The majority of young children’s time is spent with family members, especially parents, and this is why the family is a vital social facilitator influencing the way a child thinks and behaves, and in particular the opportunities they are presented with....
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...out how mortgages are used to finance home ownership. The critical issue of pension planning is explained, with guidance on different pension products. You'll finish by examining different types of insurance and getting practical advice on how to make rational decisions about which insurance products to buy. Using up-to-the minute data from the UK you develop financial...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Challenge: Make paper and ink
Science, Maths & Technology

Challenge: Make paper and ink

...out of the 'paper', the chain effect transfers to the cellulose alone and the cellulose takes on a solid form. [watery cellulose chain] How is the plant material prepared for paper making? Plant fibres are separated either mechanically by pounding the plant material or chemically by soaking the plant material in a chemical bath. In practice, a combination of mechanical...
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Video 15 mins
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...out about transphobia in the early movements and in 1970 with her friend Rivera founded Street Transvestite Actions Revolutionaries (STAR) which was described as ‘an organization dedicated to sheltering young transgender individuals who were shunned by their families’. In 2019, New York City announced that Marsha along with Rivera would both be 2 out of 7 new...
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Article 20 mins
Joe Smith - Overview of Projects
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Overview of Projects

...out why it is that so many people in post-socialist countries, Poland and the Czech Republic in our case study, are growing so much of their own fruit and vegetables. We call this quiet sustainability because they’re just getting on with it, without any great hoo-hah about it being an environmental commitment. Around 40% of people are growing about 40% of their own...
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Video 5 mins
Home education collection
Education & Development

Home education collection

...out more about The Open University’s Childhood and Youth Studies qualification. [A young student is on their laptop studying with bookcases behind in the background] Home education, homeschooling or elective home education, as it is also sometimes referred to in the UK, garnered significant public attention during periods of pandemic disrupted schooling and online...
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Article 5 mins
Cell membrane: The cell's city wall
Nature & Environment

Cell membrane: The cell's city wall

...out of the cell. It's important that fuel, raw materials and some signalling molecules can cross the membrane and those waste products and some manufactured products can leave the cell. Other materials must be prevented from crossing the membrane at all. The membrane is the point at which everything that enters and leaves the cell has to cross. In practice it serves to...
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Article 5 mins
Just six numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Just six numbers

...out of many in stock. Martin tells Final Frontier that in principle, if we had a powerful enough computer we could calculate how the Universe evolved from simple beginnings, and to do that sort of calculation we'd have to put in as a starting point the recipe for our Universe, which are basically the 6 numbers which determine the expansion of the Universe, its content and...
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Article 5 mins