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Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...based on a comparison with another source, such as another prisoner’s diary, another article from a different newspaper, or another history book on the same topic. Activity 4 Using a source Timing: Allow approximately 30 minutes for this activity Part 1 Write a list of questions that you might ask to assess the relevance and value of a written source. You might find it...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...based on the best available evidence. Activity 1 Speaking aloud (1) – historical figures Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Try to say the names of these historical figures. Then listen to the audio, and repeat the word out loud. Αλεξανδρος Θεμιστοκλης Ξερξης Κλεοπατρα Περικλης Σωκρατης Discussion The names are:...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...based problems and identity conflicts. Addressing them requires different skills and approaches. In any social context, as in disputes over land ownership, all three processes may be at work. Table 1: Broad division of conflict process types. Conflict process Examples Intervention process Disputes over resources and wants Land ownership Investment choices Sharing of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...de nieuwe telkonst. The calculations of Briggs and Vlacq were the essential basis of all subsequent tables of ‘common logarithms’. The work illustrated is of a later French edition of Vlacq’s shortened (seven-place) trigonometrical tables...John Napier: 6 Spreading the word about logarithms - Another person besides Briggs to recognise immediately the importance of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Assessment in secondary music
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary music

...based on the repertoire will tell you much more. Ensure that so far as is possible, you and the young people have a shared understanding of what, musically, they are trying to achieve. Move them forward in their learning, perhaps by asking them more complex or detailed questions about their music-making. Encourage the young people to reflect on their music-making: ‘What...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...based on the athletes in front of you, and what they can cope with and what they can manage. JACK TYLER: Keeping your spacing and imagining you're in a tunnel, you're just going to push and hold. FIONA SCOTT: There's a multitude of ways to progress drills. One would be by increasing volume, so the demand that the athlete's putting on their body. Another way is by loading,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...based on how they speak. Language also mediates the way we experience and understand the world. It influences the way we relate to each other, And ultimately, it’s connected to almost everything we do in society. Video 1 What is language? Discussion The video emphasises the importance of language in distinguishing human communication from animal communication. Many...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...based on talent, effort and fair processes. Both sides of this argument use data, produced by governments and global organisations such as the United Nations, as this can be a powerful tool for those who wish to engage with the arguments. However, as you saw in Section 4.1, global inequality is most certainly falling; but within countries, the richest are still pulling...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs