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Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...account for the ratio of the phenotypes. In fact this is an example of mathematical modelling; the mechanism of inheritance is regarded as equivalent to a mathematical process whose consequence can be calculated by the well-established laws of chance and probability. In the next two questions you are asked to predict the results of some different sorts of crosses using...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Studying mammals: Plant predators
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...accounts for observations or facts. It can be tested by making further observations and then can be modified in the light of new evidence or observations. Suppose that your hypothesis is that the wildebeest migrate to escape from their predators. Other work has shown that there are around 3000 lions and 9000 spotted hyenas living in the Serengeti and preying on herbivores...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...accounts of life from a woman’s perspective. However, there is often a tension between connections in the lyrics to lived lives and contexts on one hand and an element of imagining and invention on the other. ‘Hangman’s blues’ is a case in point as the narrative implies personal experience, but it is clearly imagined as the singer is not dead but telling the tale....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...account form, fit and function, including aesthetics and ergonomics. Other contributing factors to be considered when designing are related to innovation, market forces and costings, to name but three. * Die: Another word for a mould or casting. Also used to describe the metal block used in ‘punch and die’ forming of sheet metal. * Drawn: A description of something...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...account of individual needs. It supports student teachers to be co-creators of their own knowledge, finding solutions that work for them and developing the skills to be flexible and adaptable to different contexts and approaches. Reflection point Think about situations in which you have experienced a transition mode of teaching and a more learner centred approach. What...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...account of new ones. Session 3 Rule 7: reduce your list The first two sessions were concerned with expansion, this one concentrates on contraction. The aim is to carry forward two or three ideas that are worth further detailed work and consideration...Introducing research in law and beyond: 2.3 Scan - Scanning material such as journals, organisation documents and web...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...account) As it happens, δένδρον is used as a stand-alone word in English, although characteristically it is used in a technical sense: a dendron, or dendrite, is a ‘short, branched, thread-like extension of a nerve-cell’. Let us begin with some words that have been incorporated into English almost to the letter. Activity 1 English derivations from Greek (1)...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...account for the relationship between these two features where they cross, and deduce which of these two features is the younger. Answer Feature A cuts across feature B, and so feature A must be the younger of the two. Moreover, the parts of feature B on either side of feature A are no longer aligned. They have been displaced to the right by nearly 1 km. The simplest...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs