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Everyday skills in maths and English
Education & Development

Everyday skills in maths and English

...children with their homework, we offer free bite-sized courses in maths and English...The courses on this page are designed for the unconfident learner to improve their work life skills at a pace that suits you. You can earn a digital badge and certificate for each course completed and together these courses work serve good preparation to achieve your Functional Skills...
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Do you have a photographic memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do you have a photographic memory?

...of children and a smaller amount of adults have this special ability. This allows them to continue to see an image, in detail, for a short while even after it's taken away. Do you think you have this ability? Do you have a photographic memory? Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari....
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Activity 5 mins
TESSA: Using Local Resources
Education & Development

TESSA: Using Local Resources

...TESSA (Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa) initiative... TESSA - Excursion Jude takes Kevwe to a court to see how justice works TESSA - No Hiding Place Vitus, a policeman, goes into school to explain his work TESSA - The Art Work A local artist lets the school down but the children make up for it TESSA - Kite For Rent Adjua makes a kite with some help from others....
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Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...research hasn’t advanced very far. The overwhelming focus in the field now is on dogs – and the African rats. When someone with TB coughs, he or she exhales compounds produced by the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. If the TB is advanced enough, the smell of these compounds can even be detected by people. In 2002, when research to investigate the...
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Being a boy
Health, Sports & Psychology

Being a boy

...contemporary boyhood, drawing on research conducted at The Open University and elsewhere...[The family are dining together at a table] Click on the image above, to start your interactive experience... Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari....
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Activity 10 mins
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...centre, her burning clothes torn off, flees with other children after US planes mistakenly dropped napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians’ It could be that one particular image jumps into your mind. We think there's a good chance that it may be a 1972 photograph by a Vietnamese photographer, Huynh Cong (Nick) Ut. This picture (Figure 1) shows a young South...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?
Nature & Environment

Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?

...researchers found that 30 million hectares of crop lands will be lost to growing cities – an area equivalent to the Philippines. Of this, Asia and Africa will lose 24 million hectares of prime agricultural land. With cities becoming hubs of economic activity, large-scale changes are expected. However, the authors say this is the first study to quantify the effect of...
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Questions in science
Science, Maths & Technology

Questions in science

...research into how bats use waves to identify their prey. What is a metal? is essentially a taster in chemistry. It has been adapted from a topic called Why do metals corrode? which was written by the chemist Dr Maria Velasco-Garcia. This block will introduce you to the properties of metals and you will also get to undertake an online laboratory experiment called a flame...
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