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Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...Health and physical development: in recent years, childhood obesity rates around the world have increased. To combat this many countries are recommending outdoor activity for all children. Physical play outdoors provides important opportunities for the development and refinement of locomotor skills as well as fine motor skill. Vigorous physical activity increases lung...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...Publications Ltd. Woolf’s diaries catalogue the raids and the everyday privations that war imposed while she carried on writing fiction and biography. She observed on 29 May 1940 that ‘one can’t plan, any more, a long book’ (Bell, 1984, p.289) and Between the Acts is the shortest of her novels, set just before the outbreak of war...Exploring Virginia Woolf’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...publication but it shows the difficulty of representing changes in three dimensions using only two dimensions! Figure 4 shows a dive by an adult female Weddell seal. The dive lasted for 10 minutes 30 seconds, and the animal travelled a total of 760 m. About mid-way through the dive, at point C, the video footage revealed that the seal attacked a large Antarctic cod,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...public transport and inflexible timetables). She has identified a need for language-based CPD and translation services among local businesses involved in exporting their products to mainland Europe. Whatever your motivation for tackling this course of study, it will take you on a journey looking at the challenges posed when you live in a rural environment and start you...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...public acceptability associated with power plant operations and radioactive wastes. Nuclear power stations currently generate around 18 per cent of the UK's electricity production. The majority of the current reactors are scheduled to be decommissioned by 2023 and we could be facing an energy 'gap'. This free course, The science of nuclear energy, will delve into the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...health. (iii) Studying abroad can be quite challenging. (iv) Children like sweets. a. (i) All women like fashion. b. (ii) Drinking too much wine can be bad for your health. c. (iii) Studying abroad can be quite challenging. d. (iv) Children like sweets. The correct answers are a and d. Answer The sweeping generalisations are: (i) All women like fashion and (iv) Children...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
Languages

Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...public schools to instruct only in English. According to the Massachusetts Association of Bilingual Education, only 33 schools in the state offer dual-language programs or immersion programs in languages other than English. Dedham Middle School is not one of these schools, so Dooley takes Spanish as an elective. That’s where he found out about the Spanish Spelling Bee....
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Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?
Society, Politics & Law

Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?

...public. In the meantime, we should continue to buy a couple of items extra in our weekly shop for the local food bank, we should give money to desperate people when we are able to and we should support the Big Issue sellers who are trying to escape poverty. But, in doing these things we should not lose sight of the fact that what those in poverty need is to be lifted from...
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