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Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...families. Unlike primary schools, attendance in an early years setting is not compulsory and is a parental choice. Throughout the UK there are over 20,000 primary schools (Statista, no date). Every primary school is different depending on where it is located and who attends. The smallest primary schools may have fewer than 10 pupils, and the largest providing education...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...history filmmaker, exploring wildlife in Britain, and the role of social media in connecting with new audiences...Jack Perks Jack is a wildlife photographer and filmmaker specialising in freshwater fish, but with a passion for all things natural history. After studying a BA (Hons.) in Marine & Natural History Photography at Falmouth, he went on to work for many...
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Video 30 mins
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...history) that will help you to make sense of these issues and consider how we might better respond to them...This course will introduce you to ideas of global development and the interconnectedness of the world when it comes to understanding the most pressing social, economic, political, and environmental issues of our time. It will highlight the United Nations...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...history, people including philosophers, theologians and artists have attempted to address these questions. More recently, scientists and medics have had a significant impact upon how people (particularly in the West) understand death, dying and grief. Our understandings of death have also been influenced by the work of social scientists and ‘thanatologists’ (people...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...history on a PowerPoint and inviting the children to make theirs Inviting the children to draw you as a reader: what do they know? Discussing and exploring the rights of readers (Pennac, 2006) Exploring your reading habits: where, when, what do you like to read? Do you doodle, turn pages down, re-read sections, read the end first? Discussing your own and the children’s...
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Article 10 mins
David Bowie and science fiction
History & The Arts

David Bowie and science fiction

...London Falling, New Worlds and its writers were part of the make-up of Swinging London, and, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, bands such as Pink Floyd (of which Bowie was a fan) were taking sf imagery into their work. As with so much else in the late twentieth century, it will be impossible to write the history of sf without mentioning Bowie. More on David Bowie...
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Article 5 mins
Would Donald Trump's wall work to reduce migration from Mexico?
Society, Politics & Law

Would Donald Trump's wall work to reduce migration from Mexico?

...histories of about 150,000 Mexican nationals who had lived for at least a time in the US and compared them with border policy. They found that: More border enforcement changed where migrants crossed into the US, but not whether they did. More migrants were apprehended, but this simply increased the number of times they had to try to get across. It didn’t slow the flow....
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Article 5 mins
Britain's Billion Year Journey
Science, Maths & Technology

Britain's Billion Year Journey

...history and geographical position of Britain can be traced back one billion years. Follow Britain’s journey through time...Find out more about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications Rodinia - the first supercontinent Between one billion and 620 million years ago, the continental crust that would one day be known as Britain formed tiny parts of a giant...
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Article 5 mins