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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
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
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...account for how electromagnetic radiation crosses the empty space from the Sun and stars to the Earth and beyond. On encountering matter, radiation is transmitted, absorbed and scattered to varying degrees, depending on the chemical and physical nature of the matter. For example, the visible radiation in sunlight is certainly transmitted through panes of window glass, but...
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Level 1: Introductory 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
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...account of the implications (Guston, 2014). The application of new knowledge has the potential to change our lives for the better or for worse. We all have just as much of a stake as scientists in determining the ways that science can and should influence our lives. Therefore, we need skills and competencies to assess science and its implications (Holliman, 2008). This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...account, such as evidence from the sediment enclosing the fossil, and so on. The result is always an interpretation that reflects the balance of probabilities from the available information, rather than the certain truth. [Figure 5] Figure 5 A specimen of Calymene blumenbachi from the Wenlock Limestone that rolled itself up into a ball (2.5 cm)...Life in the Palaeozoic:...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...accounts of participation. Some participation involves deliberate decisions to act together with others, such as when people march in a demonstration, vote in an election or join a group formed to pursue a shared purpose, such as protecting the environment. Other activities, such as using public transport or visiting a museum, might at first seem less obviously social but...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs