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Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...classes and classes into phyla...Week 2: Global biodiversity: 2 Diversity - The variety of life on Earth is described by the term biodiversity, a shortened form of biological diversity, but the term doesn’t just refer to the number of species or individuals that can be found in a particular habitat. Biodiversity can be described at three major levels, the highest of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Everyday maths 2 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Wales)

...class. Chart to show favourite drink chosen by customers in a shopping centre. Chart to show the temperature on each day of the week. Chart to show percentage of each sale of ticket type at a concert. [Described image] Figure 1 Different types of charts and graphs Answer Chart to show the heights of children in a class. The best choice here is (d) the bar chart as it can...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Ethics in science?
Science, Maths & Technology

Ethics in science?

...variables that may have affected the results as he could. However, the sailors would have varied from each other in terms of their age, height, weight and level of scurvy symptoms and any of these factors could have had an impact on the result of the experiment. We can now also identify the fact that the sailors would have been genetically different, and it is not...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...de Janeiro. [Figure 5] Figure 5 The lines of longitude (in red) and latitude (in blue) on planet Earth as viewed from above the North Pole. In Figure 4 you can see that the blue lines of latitude are always the same distance apart, whereas Figure 5 shows the distance between the red lines of longitude decreases towards the North (and also the South) Pole, where they...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...class than the population at large. [Bletchley Park] Eventually, more than 10,000 code-breakers worked at Bletchley Park – where the gardens had been filled with temporary huts – or at other locations which it controlled. One thing that they all had in common was that they were all sworn to secrecy: never to talk about their work. The British realised that if their...
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The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...class radicals, church people and so on, also supported by national groups like Greenpeace and so on, in Germany who began a campaign which I styled and I think can rightly be styled the Gorleben Movement which has never wavered, which has fought against the imposition, sometimes in really quite trenchant almost violent ways and the confrontation between State Security,...
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Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...hair on ratings of Black women's dominance and professionalism', Front. Psychology, 6. Randle, B.A. (20150 'I am not my hair: African American women and their struggles with embracing natural hair!', Race, Gender & Class, 22(1-2), pp. 114–21). Thompson, C. (2008-9) 'Black women and identity: what's hair got to do with it?', Politics and Performativity, 22(1). ....
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Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...classes in particular were leading a trend towards a more egalitarian ‘symmetrical’ marriage relationship in which husband and wife shared tasks more equally. However, evidence also emerged during the latter part of the twentieth century that perhaps changes had not been as great as was originally assumed. According to one review of the evidence ‘none of the data...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs