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Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...table: Table 1 The impact of consultations with young children LEVEL GROUP IMPACT INDIVIDUAL Children Changes in everyday experiences, e.g. being allowed to do new things or changes to their environment Raised self-esteem and confidence Acquisition of new social or practical skills Practitioners Feeling enabled and encouraged, e.g. to continue promoting child...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...des sçavans, together with extracts of his letter to Chapelain. I say almost verbatim, because at several points in the narrative phrases have been inserted: ‘having there adjusted his Watches’, ‘having a great confidence in the said Watches’. The same account translated into Dutch eventually featured as the unique account of a sea-trial of pendulum clocks to be...
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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

...de Janeiro, world-champion athletes and sport commentators — who also happen to be women — have faced offensive slights about everything from their choice of summer dress, to the gold-medal "catfights." Credit for their accomplishments has also been thrown to the men in their lives, too. (Yes, for real.) On Sunday, The Chicago Tribune identified U.S. medallist Corey...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...des Plantes, Levrault, Schell & Co., Paris. Kohn, D.D. and Walsh, D.M. 1994. Plant species richness – the effect of island size and habitat diversity. Journal of Ecology, 82, 367–377. Linder, H.P. 2005. The evolution of diversity: the Cape flora. Trends in Plant Science, 10, 537–542. MacArthur, R.H. and Wilson, E.O. 1967. The Theory of Island Biogeography. Princeton...
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Article 20 mins
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...table provided in your Digital plan. You can also write about an online activity that doesn’t appear on the list. Searching for information on the internet (news, holidays, restaurants shopping etc.). Passing information on to another person or group (hobbies, clubs, social media). Finding out about a current affairs issue. Using social media to share news, comments,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...table, so why the hell couldn’t they do that at the start, without losing millions of men. (Patch, 2007, p. 137) This question – ‘why did we fight?’ – has troubled generations of historians. Why did Harry Patch, and millions like him, have to kill men they never knew? [Described image] Figure 1 Harry Patch (1898–2009) was Britain’s oldest surviving Tommy In...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...table. The scene appears very 'flat'. Now look at the same scene with both eyes and note the illusion of depth. The larger the field of stereoscopic vision, the greater the accuracy in judging distance. Primates, therefore, are able to judge distances with greater accuracy than herbivores. However, it is interesting to note that the large monocular fields in rabbits gives...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...Table 1) and it became the basis for future ethical codes in medicine and psychology. Table 1 The Nuremberg Code (1946) 1 THE VOLUNTARY CONSENT OF THE HUMAN SUBJECT IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL 2 THE EXPERIMENT SHOULD YIELD FRUITFUL RESULTS FOR THE GOOD OF SOCIETY, THAT CANNOT BE OBTAINED BY OTHER MEANS 3 THE EXPERIMENT SHOULD BE BASED ON PREVIOUS RESEARCH SO THAT THE...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs