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Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...concepts of women being too weak to play sport. Events of the last century have shown that women are equally as capable as men to participate in all sports. However, for women and men to have equal opportunities to fulfil their potential in sport, we must have an equal understanding of women’s and men’s bodies. These differences are often ignored in medical and sport...
Everyday maths 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2

...concept of scale plans and drawings interpreted scale plans and decided upon a suitable scale for a drawing...Session 4: Shape and space: 5 Session 4 summary - Well done! You have now completed the fourth and final session of the course. If you have identified any areas that you need to work on, please ensure you refer back to this section of the course. You should now be...
Free course 48 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...prompt for engineers. There are advantages and disadvantages to thermal sensitivity and some of these are explored in her. On the one hand, we can do amazing things with thermal energy, such as moving matter around within a solid without risking melting or changing the basic shape of a component. On the other hand, it can be a real nuisance. It can make magnetic disks...
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...concepts, principles, theories, classification systems and language associated with minerals and rocks use the essential terms, concepts and strategies of mineralogy apply knowledge and understanding of the study of rock thin sections using a polarising microscope work with and recognise a variety of minerals and microtextures in igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks...
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...de force, watch this Waltz Around Saturn video produced by Fabio Di Donato who edited together highlights from the Cassini mission during its orbital tour of Saturn. Turn your sound on, because we think that fitting the pictures to this music was a work of genius. [This is an image taken from the Waltz around Saturn video.] Figure 27 Highlights from the Cassini mission...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...prompted the development of the Baylis wind-up radio. (b) Make a list of bullet points that identify the engineering requirements involved in meeting the need for communication, like the list at the end of Box 4 'Meeting the liquid challenge'. Answer (a) The need for reliable, affordable access to broadcast health information in remote areas. (b) adequate radio reception...
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...concept of domestic service, which offered Lotte her escape route, is itself one constructed through both class and gender. The UK was the only country offering a ‘specific scheme of rescue for the Jews through domestic service’ (Kushner, 1994, p. 112). Many of the women refugees were recognised not to be of ‘the domestic class’ by the Home Office, which accepted...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...concept of learning design. Learning design involves providing a context or a background that will support a learning experience. It involves the educator making some clear and deliberate choices about what, when, where and how to teach. It also involves giving thought to things like: resources a learner may require for learning the amount of time needed for progression...