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Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...communication by sound in aquatic mammals, describe the role of blubber and explain countercurrent heat exchange explain the diving response and its significance in natural dives...Aquatic mammals: 1 The origins of aquatic mammals - As an introduction to aquatic mammals, join Hermione Cockburn as she watches the bottlenose dolphins in the Moray Firth, Scotland in this...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...communication. By contrast, another infant may have a carer who is quite depressed, spending a lot of time in a self-absorbed state and with a generally low mood. This infant may spend long periods of time alone or with an emotionally unavailable carer, where distress goes unacknowledged. When infant distress is responded to, it may sometimes be that the carer feels the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...communication. We’ve got physical development and we’ve got thinking, or cognition. And what you sometimes find with children with different developmental disorders is that they have strengths and weaknesses across these, so, they might have delays in communication but their physical development may be age-appropriate. And, by using our resources, the developmental...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...communities. We are a country with a long tradition of respect for the rule of law. We are a fair and just country. We show compassion for others and uphold the values of social justice. (The Scottish Government, 2012) There are a number of principles which help underpin the rule of law. Each of these has relevance to the law and legal system in Scotland. The principles...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...community. He saw a community as being— NARRATOR "the whole complex of organisms naturally living together, whose life must be considered and studied as a whole." DR MICHAEL GILLMAN: Tansley's main interest was in plants, so his work and ideas tend to focus on them. He defined plant communities as-- NARRATOR "--any collection of plants growing together which has a whole...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...communicate with patients in a vegetative state, including Gillian*. In July 2005, this 23-year-old had been crossing a road, chatting on her mobile phone. She was struck by two cars. Yet, though she had been diagnosed as vegetative, there was something about her that caught the attention of Martin Coleman of the University of Cambridge Impaired Consciousness Research...
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Article 15 mins
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...communicating making connections (including applying mathematics) using tools. Each of the six processes listed here represents a wide range of component skills that usefully contribute to a learner’s mathematical thinking as well as to their general thinking skills. In the activity that follows, you are invited first to spend some time thinking of examples of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...communication when they were constructed. A realist approach does not imply that the artistic form of the image is ignored, similarly the conventionalist approach would not ignore the documentary information contained in a photograph...Reading visual images: 2.4 Looking closely at photographs for social data - Activity 2 Look at the photographs of a wedding group in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs