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Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...simple microbes living off chemical energy supplied by hot springs on the ocean floor, or snatching brief glimpses of sunlight as tidal cracks open and close in Europa’s icy shell. What do you think would be the significance of finding life on Europa? Should precautions be taken to prevent contaminating Europa with life from Earth? You’ll learn more about Europa...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...simple error resulting from the use of adult normal ranges (when using appropriate paediatric ranges, only one child had a low IgA level) (Richmond, Goldblatt 1998). After a day-long meeting the experts concluded that there was no current evidence linking MMR and autism. They thought that ‘it would be surprising if the link had not been noted in other countries with...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...coded to show Chinese-speaking areas.] (Adapted from ASDFGHJ, ‘A map of the Sinophone world’, 24 January 2009, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New-Map-Sinophone_World.PNG, last accessed 29 May 2009) Figure 1 The Chinese-speaking world...Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course: 1.1 Varieties of Chinese - Apart from Mandarin, the other six major varieties of spoken Chinese are...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...simple percentages of amounts. Try this one yourself (Figure 4). Figure 4 Finding percentages of 60 Discussion There are many possible questions and answers that you could have posed in the diagram. Examples could be 50% of 60, 30% of 60, or 25% of 60. Extend learners’ understanding by posing questions such as: 15% of 60, how could you find that? What about 76% of 60?...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...simple relationship between how much fossil fuel we burn and how much carbon we add to the atmosphere and what temperature change we expect to result from that on the long term and on the relatively short-term average. I think we’ve got a better understanding of potential tipping points and abrupt changes in the climate, and that’s partly because we’ve begun to see...
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Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...simple question, but The University Of Oxford's Julian Savulescu explains why it's more nuanced than that: There’s a genuine dilemma here and the situation is not nearly as clear everyone appears to think – and as the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) pretends. In law, there are two standards of proof to determine guilt before punishment is inflicted. In criminal law,...
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Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...simple or related to a real-life situation. I see absolutely no reason why not; although obviously it should be recognised that not all pupils will be able to follow the activity fully right through to the end...Using visualisation in maths teaching: 4. In the classroom - There are many possible strategies for making more use of visualisation within the mathematics...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Exploring the English language
History & The Arts

Exploring the English language

...simple presentation of statistical data demonstrate an awareness of a range of techniques in linguistics for the analysis of data including those related to corpora...Exploring the English language: 1 Word classes - Activity 1 Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Look at an extract from An A to Z of English by clicking on the video clip below. In this extract, poet Michael Rosen...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs