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First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...profiles Westmill Wind Farm, a community-owned wind farm that began operations in the south of England in 2008. [SOUND EFFECTS PLAYING] [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING] [TURBINE SPINNING] [MUSIC PLAYING] LIZ ROTHSCHILD Ready? GIRL Whoo! LIZ ROTHSCHILD What’s really exciting is when we come up here with actually adults and children. The first word you hear is ‘Wow!’ [TURBINE...
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...profile, those reflections end up coming into your 2-D line, so you end up with really quite poor imaging. So in the eighties, nineties, we then started to collect 3-D seismic data. So that was a major, major leap forward, and that also allowed the oil industry to start really being able to target exactly where the best places to drill would be, rather than doing a...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...et al. (2012), Alexander (2009) and Wiggins and McTighe (2005), Mary Mendenhall and colleagues (2015) used a framework of ‘core elements’ of learner-centered education to observe teaching and learning in refugee schools in Kenya: meaningful and active pupil engagement inclusive and respectful learning environment differentiated instruction constructive classroom...
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...profile discoveries in the water industry are to do with the desalination of sea water, a huge and largely untapped aqueous resource. Many sectors of engineering are involved in meeting such a basic need as the supply of fresh water. The three classifications of solution – innovation by context, innovation by development and routine – are all represented many times...
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...profile acts of destruction taken against cultural heritage. Most recently, in 2015 in Syria, ISIS attacked and seriously damaged several important sites in Palmyra, including the Monumental Arch, the Temple of Bel and the Temple of Baalshamin. Activity 1 Map of Palmyra Timing: Allow 15 minutes The map below shows the site of the ancient city of Palmyra, just southwest of...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...et cetera. People just produced and produced food with no real marketing in mind. The world’s a very different place now. Farmers have to compete. They have to produce things that people want. BEN TAYLOR: With larger-scale farming businesses taking over, you are seeing more blanket cropping happening. You are seeing simpler rotations that are less precise in terms of...
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...et al., 1999, p.52.) Activity 2 Let's try looking at an example of reading statistical evidence. There has been a great deal of discussion in recent years about changes in our patterns of travel, because of concern about car use and its impact upon the environment. What does the table reproduced below tell us about car use? Can you detect any patterns or trends over time?...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...ete of ech tre of paradis. As you might have noticed, both these passages are translations of the same section of the Bible, namely Genesis chapter 3, verse 1. The Middle English version is much closer to modern-day English, and you were probably able to read a great deal more of it than of the Old English version. However, there are still a few features which differ from...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs