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Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...family life, and an increasingly competitive and stressful society. Activity 2 Researching media stories of young people's health Over the next few weeks look out for media stories about young people's wellbeing. Do they reflect the kinds of concerns – about physical health and mental wellbeing – that have been noted here, or do they embody other anxieties? How do the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...families of children with special educational needs and disabilities. Silvana Mengoni is a research fellow in the Child and Youth Studies Group in the Faculty for Education and Language Studies at The Open University. She’s been working on a project called Early Support, which collects together psychology research that sets out when certain developmental milestones are...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...family tree’ of languages, with younger languages inheriting characteristics from older ones. This so-called ‘genetic’ approach to language classification gathered momentum in the late eighteenth century, especially after the demonstration in 1786 that Greek and Latin shared roots with Sanskrit, the ancient language of India. The excitement generated by this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...families are angry, too. But they'll get over it with Athena's help. Odysseus is in the clear and ready for life with Penelope, or another adventure. [MUSIC PLAYING] Video 2 Troy Story II: the Odyssey Despite the fact that the Iliad is a (very) long poem, Homer is remarkably concentrated on a single, fleeting episode in a much longer conflict. At the same time, he still...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...trees which seemed themselves only heavier bulks of mist. The wheat in some of the fields was still uncut, and in others, where it had been gathered into sheaves, the rooks by hundreds were noisily gleaning in the track of the reapers. From this conventionally English keeping, I passed suddenly to the sight of the gaunt, dry, gravelly bed of a wide river, such as I had...
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Article 5 mins
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...family sizes The table below contains data on the sizes (numbers of children) of the completed families of two samples of mothers in Ontario. One sample of mothers had had fewer years of education than the other sample (six years or less for mothers in the first sample, and seven years or more for those in the other sample). Table 1.4 Family size: mothers married aged...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...trees have been used for the alleviation of pain and fever. In the 1840s the chemists of the day were able to extract the substance salicin from the bark of willow trees by treating it with boiling water. They isolated and identified salicin and found that it was the active ingredient in the pharmacological action of willow bark. This, then, became the lead compound from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...family was there during the sit-in and everything that happened. So when we did a documentary called Windy Bay looking particularly at Clayoquot Sound and the fact that you can’t replant an old growth, temperate rainforest by just putting in a few trees, when that show was broadcast the next day it was actually mentioned in parliament and within a very short piece of...
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Video 30 mins