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Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...physical apparatus. Trying to “say what you see” (or cannot see!) can be helpful, too. Visualisation and articulation go hand in hand.’ (Open University, 1988, p. 10) Click on the link below and read ‘Mental mathematics’ by Chris Bills. This text suggests a number of mathematical visualisation activities for you to try out. You are asked to think about the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...physical environment. You'll learn more about ecosystems if you work through the remaining units in this series. A variety of orders of placental mammals exist. Taxonomists argue a great deal about the evolutionary origins of these different groups and how the taxonomic boundaries ought to be drawn, so the exact number of mammalian orders varies from 19 to 27, depending...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...physical and biological elements; (e) context or ‘space’. In each case the word environment or environmental seemed to be used in a broad sense so I didn’t find it easy to find substitutable words. However, there were different emphases and adjectives in each paragraph so I deduced that the words had different meanings, dependent on the context within which they...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...physics class might be: Work done is measured in: a.Joules b.Watts c.Coulombs d.Newtons Having just finished the class, most students will be able to select the correct response, a). However, this does not necessarily mean that they have a deep understanding of what ‘work done’ represents, nor how to calculate it. They may have memorised terms or equations well enough...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...physical behaviour. Next you will consider chemical reactions, specifically how atoms combine with other atoms to form molecules, and how molecules combine with other atoms or molecules to form bigger molecules. You will meet simple (tried and tested) theories to explain the bonding in molecules and at how their shapes may be explained, and indeed predicted. And in a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...physical properties and, importantly, crystal form...Week 1: Building stone: 1.1.1 Igneous rocks - [Described image] Figure 1.1 Igneous rocks Igneous rocks are defined as having formed from a molten state; that is, when liquid rock (called ‘magma’) cools to form a solid rock. Cooling of magma can happen deep inside huge mountain chains such as the Andes, where granite...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...physical force to colonise, occupy and control foreign territories and resources. This process is sometimes referred to as imperial expansion. Indeed, the Russian revolutionary and political theorist, Vladimir Lenin, famously described imperialism as the ‘highest stage of capitalism’ (Lenin, 2015). While colonial powers have retracted physically from most parts of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...physical, biological, mental and cultural systems and that our ecological unconscious has been repressed through industrialisation. The role of ecopsychology then is to ‘awaken the inherent sense of environmental reciprocity that lies within the ecological unconscious’ (Roszak, 1992 p. 320). The idea that we have an ‘ecological self’ was first proposed by the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs