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Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...write more detailed notes before continuing...Seeing the light: 2 The Secret Life of Buildings - Activity 1 The Secret Life of Buildings Timing: Allow about 40 minutes Watch The Secret Life of Buildings. As you watch it, try to make notes about the key points made. Then answer the questions below. Tom Dyckhoff Your home is the most important piece of architecture you’ll...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...writing (2004) the dam was near completion. The scheme is enormously popular with the dam contractors and with political parties in those local Indian states which will benefit from the extra water and electricity. It is also popular with those who have had to walk miles to collect water each day and who do not have enough water to irrigate their crops. It is not popular,...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...writing and performing their own original material. On the genre hierarchy between pop and rock, Stuart Borthwick and Ron Moy have commented that: Rock, as a term, was coined to differentiate the music and attitudes of both performer and audience from the ‘pop’ and ‘commercial’ form. This rock/pop binarism can be viewed as a false bifurcation on a number of levels...
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...writing was for portfolios from June 2015. You can also access up to date information on FTSE WMA Private investor index series asset allocation. Table 3: FTSE/WMA model portfolio as at June 2015 MODEL PORTFOLIO Conservative (%) Income (%) Balanced (%) Growth(%) Underlying asset index UK equities 19 35 37.5 40 FTSE All-Share Non-UK equities 11 17.5 30 37.5 FTSE All World....
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...write “ ‘Canberra University’ or ‘Open University’, class of ‘98”. What are the functions of Kente?...Textiles in Ghana: 4.2 The meaning of kente designs - Activity 13 Once you’ve watched the video, explain, using your own words, what kente designs mean. Catherine (VO) The Kentehene, the Chief of Bonwire Weavers, is the official guardian of the history and...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...writing books and teaching materials for practitioners in the school sector, or involvement in large national research projects. (adapted Murray, 2008) Across all of Murray’s points it is possible to identify the common thread of knowledge creation, dissemination and questioning. For her, a tutor is someone who is at all times aware of the assumptions, beliefs and...
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...writing histories of empire is bound up with the lasting power structures it left behind. The archives and maps of empire – our tools for understanding – were produced partly through the practices of imperialism. How these records and the knowledge they produced are understood, critiqued, and interpreted has changed over time. In this session you will be introduced to...
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...write down a sum giving the total mass M of Jupiter in terms of the masses of its four layers, M1, M2, M3 and M4. Answer cap m equals sum with, 4 , summands cap m sub one plus cap m sub two plus cap m sub three plus cap m sub four Write down an expression for the volume of Jupiter in terms of its radius, RJ. Answer volume equation left hand side equals right hand side...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs