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Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world
Education & Development

Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world

...think will float and one for those that they predict will sink. Don’t say what you think yet. Ask your child to explain why each object will either sink or float. Write down the name of each object and the reason your child gives for their ‘prediction’. Mix up the objects again and ask your child to test each one in turn in the bowl of water. Are there any...
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Activity 10 mins
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...think that football may differ from businesses usually considered more conventional, such as supermarkets like Sainsburys or Aldi. The business of football Pete Winkelman, Owner and chairman, MK Dons I think football is so different from any other kind of business, because I suppose fundamentally it‘s not a business. You don’t look at income and expenditure sheets in...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...think of other people’s religions as superstition. The following questions would make perfect sense to people in some religions but seem utterly bizarre to others. You might like to consider whether you would answer them positively or negatively. Do you eat fish every Friday? If you visit a religious building, do you cover your head? Do you pray when you are anxious? Do...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Download your free booklet 'Young People: Changing times'
Education & Development

Download your free booklet 'Young People: Changing times'

...People: Changing times' to accompany the 'Child of Our Time 16' series. ...To download your free booklet, please click here. Download this free, 28 page booklet produced by The Open University, covering a wide range of topics relating to young people, including: The history of youth Changing bodies Young people: what's the problem? Thinking about social media Futures...
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Article 10 mins
Skills for life
Education & Development

Skills for life

...of thinking and solve problems. They can also build your confidence both in spoken skills and for group collaboration and co-operation...Below is a selection of courses which are not focused directly on work, but rather helping you understand and build skills which are useful in everyday life. Discover the key skills for life Learn new skills to help you with finding work...
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Article 5 mins
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...Thinking about your opinions - In the first activity you are going to read two short extracts and examine your opinions on the subject of the texts. Activity 1 Task 1 Read Extracts 1 and 2 and consider to what extent you agree or disagree with the view of the authors. Extract 1 I have been teaching full time for over thirty years. During that span of time, one sees many,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...think of themselves and others as having some essence – some fixed or at least stable core. They tend to believe that this sense of “me” defines who they are, who they might become and how they’re likely to act over time. If people actually had this sort of fixed “essence” (and always acted in ways that fit that essence), the idea of motivation wouldn’t be...
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Article 5 mins
Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Paul Williams - Earth in Vision

...thinking that there must be more out there. Palaeontology is what really got me into natural history. When I was eight I was on a school field trip and I found an ammonite on the beach in Lyme Regis. And the ammonite has been very precious to me ever since, and that allowed me to enter natural history through a palaeontological, a geological understanding of the earth and...
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Video 30 mins