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Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...family member or colleague was studying and thought, ‘This is much more interesting than the maths I did at school - I could do this!’ Whatever your responses to these two activities, it is likely that you will have some emotional feelings about why you remembered and recorded them. Emotions and feelings are often part of our learning. We all have a learning history...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...tree by walking through a forest. The sheer scale of the Universe can help in this process. Objects can be seen from the light they emit. This light travels at a very high but finite speed of about three hundred thousand kilometres per second. The distances to stars are so vast that even at this speed it takes several years for light to reach us from the nearest stars....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...trees. NAYARA When my dad’s coat was ripped I realised something. JOSEF SUDEK What was it? NAYARA Stitched inside his coat was a secret pocket. I reached in and found an old envelope. JOSEF SUDEK Have you opened it? NAYARA Not yet. Everything else has vanished. Dad’s memory was the last place where the village still existed. There’s nothing left. JOSEF SUDEK You are...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...family estate. He proposes to leave one divided by two of the estate to his son, one divided by three to his daughter and one divided by six to his brother. Who gets the biggest share? Who gets the smallest share? Method When numerators of fractions are all 1, the larger the denominator of the fraction, the smaller the fraction. Looking at the example above, the fractions...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...family. His success has also reached a point, that for a long period during the 1990’s, three of the four terrestrial television channels, a number of ITV regions, and many satellite channels, all had identities created by Lambie-Nairn as well as a number of overseas television companies. Martin Lambie-Nairn was also the man behind the popular eighties satirical...
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Article 15 mins
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...family were contacted by an Apopo volunteer, who explained that Claudi’s sample had been checked again, this time by rats. The rats had flagged Claudi’s sample for further testing – and this test confirmed he had TB. Claudi was prescribed antibiotics by the doctors to treat his TB. The volunteer came every day to make sure Claudi took his pills for the full...
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Article 5 mins
Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
Languages

Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...familial ! Sciences et Avenir : Que reprochez-vous le plus à l’enseignement des mathématiques aujourd’hui ? Stella Baruk : De fabriquer toutes ces détresses d’enfants. Je les vois, précoces clients des instituts médico-pédagogiques ou des hôpitaux de jour, se débattre avec une logique qui n’est pas la leur. Je reproche à l’institution de ne pas savoir...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...families. Intense expressions of emotion are sometimes too much for adults to cope with, and in the wider community the expression of strong feelings by young people, whether anger or boisterousness, can be frightening or viewed as unacceptable. What is sometimes referred to as ‘emotional literacy’ is the ability to register and take account of the strong feelings...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs