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Challenge: Make paper and ink
Science, Maths & Technology

Challenge: Make paper and ink

...Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America: (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru): With Supplementary Notes) by Alwyn H. Gentry and Adrian B. Forsyth, University of Chicago Press1996; ISBN: 0226289443 (An excellent resource on learning to identify tropical plants in the field/forest) Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics by...
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Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance
Education & Development

Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance

...Families. The video in this article shows a brief activity to illustrate how movement can be used to embody learning. Critically, it’s important to emphasise with the Dancemotion approach as a whole, it is the teachers’ and children’s interest and engagement with the content that is far more important than their experience or confidence in dance. Why we’re doing...
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Should I lock in my exchange rate when using cards and ATMs abroad?
Money & Business

Should I lock in my exchange rate when using cards and ATMs abroad?

...family arguing about it at the next ATM, and most chose the dynamic conversion into their own currencies. So why do travelers pay more by accepting a worse exchange rate when they could simply say no? Three functions of money Economists consider any item as money if it performs three different functions: unit of account, store of value and medium of exchange. Two out of...
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Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...family orientated audience. However, because of the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak, the tournament has now been postponed until 2021. One of the features of The Hundred is its novel approach to gender equity. Billed as both a men’s and women’s tournament, each of the 8 city-based clubs have a male and a female team. The prize money on offer is the same for both...
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Article 10 mins
Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...families and friends. Many of us have wardrobes full of clothes we haven't worn for years, books we rarely read and belongings from our and our children's childhoods we cannot part with. When these hoards start to get out of control - for example, when we can no longer fit into new clothes into our wardrobe, most people will have a clear out. A hoarder, however, will...
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Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...family, friends, school, society, media, all contribute to self-limiting beliefs. Conner and Barrett (2005) suggest that we continuously assess situations in relation to whether they will help or hinder us, and unconscious beliefs play a part in this assessment. When a situation occurs, it is more likely to be seen as harmful if we have negative self-beliefs, leading to...
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The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series
Money & Business

The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series

...family and friends. Practical tips include the paradoxical guidance that ‘budgets make you free’, to pay yourself first and to automate your saving and investments. Transcript Find out more about Emmanuel here. [Pushpa headshot]Podcast 6: Pushpa Wood Pocket money in adult life Pushpa is a university teacher, researcher, and practitioner around money education. She...
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Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...family by clicking on the down arrow next to ‘Share’. If, whilst practicing, you do any mistakes, you can always undo all your changes. Click on the 3 lines icon in the top left corner. A menu appears. Click on ‘Reset’ and confirm you want to put back the code as it was, before you changed the numbers. All done? Good. In the next section we will start learning to...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs