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Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...simple event. The commitment to working together in a multi-agency context stems from the belief that children’s needs cannot be boxed into health, social or educational compartments and should be viewed holistically. The term ‘wider’ team includes professionals who may be less closely involved on a day-to-day basis but are needed to collaborate with, as and when...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...simple-branching stem. (b) One of the earliest known land animals - a spider-like creature (4 mm long including legs) from Silurian rocks in Shropshire, England...Life in the Palaeozoic: 4.1 Trilobites - As we've seen, the Cambrian explosion left the seas teeming with a huge variety of animals. In the following activity you will study some of the marine life at one...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Advanced Spanish: Language in context
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Language in context

...simples y superficiales, pero también es posible que por su edad no sean capaces de apreciar la riqueza que puedan tener esas formas de expresión. Es una riqueza de otro tipo, que… que a lo mejor radica en un mayor dinamismo, tal vez más expresividad, y sobre todo más interactividad ¿no? Eh… Y en cambio se pierde un poco la elegancia, los matices, y digamos el...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...simple conceptual devices (stereotypes) for comparing our experiences. The person on the street, someone who is simply at home in a particular place, operating through tacit knowledge, getting by without the need for much deep reflection. The cartographer, someone with the expertise to map urban environments, but who maintains a degree of detachment from the object and is...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...simple example, you can probably figure this out in your head, right, but suppose you had 76 residues? You couldn’t even write that out on a piece of paper! There is actually where the scale of computers come in handy because they can do that sort of calculation, no problem. So in fact they show that you can use this modelling checking technique to explore state spaces...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...simple music which we start with and then we progress gradually to more and more complex music. And in some ways we might be what what what what you know people called dumbing down the knowledge and skills that young learners are actually capable of achieving by doing that [Described image] Figure 6 Young people composing Reflection point What might be the implications...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...simple, isolated errors but complex failures with social, technical and political dimensions, with multiple and sometimes conflicting perspectives about what the nature of the problem and its possible solutions. Systemic failure often happens as a result of inaction as established ways of thinking and acting become unsuitable in rapidly changing world. Change that is...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Sustainable chemistry
Science, Maths & Technology

Sustainable chemistry

...simple answer either. Bacteria degrades bioplastic much more rapidly than conventional plastic, but that releases both methane and carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. It also breaks down into microplastics, meaning it gets into our food systems via the soil and fish. One way to address these problems is to take a circular approach to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs