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Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...family and work colleagues with whom we discuss and debate much of what we encounter. Reading is both a social and relational experience, but those who are less engaged may never have experienced it as such. Nonetheless, these pupils’ peers, librarians, learning support assistants, parents and teachers can be reading role models who inspire and encourage, explicitly and...
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...family and friends, as well as external professional colleagues, Student Support Team, Tutor Forum, Togetherall (online Mental Health support service) and in-house training sessions. Most tutors said that they would welcome more training to be better prepared to support students with a MHC. Training suggestions were: ‘… anxiety, because that is something that I see...
Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...family museum website. At the time, this was thought of as a way to popularise classical music, and to make audiences more comfortable with hearing music in films. The earliest audiences were often confused about where the music was coming from, especially if they couldn't see an orchestra. Activity 3 imitates Disney's Fantasia process to help pupils analyse different...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...history, conservation or the environment and does not require any previous experience of studying these subjects....Week 1: What is an ecosystem?: Introduction - Throughout this course you will be considering these overarching questions: What is the importance of understanding ecosystems? How do they work? How crucial is their conservation? But first, what constitutes an...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...history from the time of William the Conqueror, who first fancied a castle where it stands, down to the present day. The memory of such successive guests as the Empress Matilda and Henry II. her son, King John, Henry III., Edwards I., II., and III., Queen Philippa, Henry VI., and James I., and Charles I., and Edward VII., abides in the guidebook, and may be summoned from...
Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...history of nutrition science. Wilbur Atwater, a Department of Agriculture scientist, began by measuring the calories contained in more than 4,000 foods. Then he fed those foods to volunteers and collected their faeces, which he incinerated in a bomb calorimeter. After subtracting the energy measured in the faeces from that in the food, he arrived at the Atwater values,...
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...history. […] Network based life will affect home too. A selection of screens hanging on walls may display works of art, static or moving. Or they may act as virtual fish tanks, or virtual windows looking out onto a Bahamas beach. Or you may have a cup of coffee with a distant friend, with life sized video images. The coffee may well be made and brought to you by a...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...history as if they took place over the course of a single day. MARCUS BADGER: The Earth is around 4.6 billion years old. That’s 4,600,000,000 years. That’s such a huge number that it’s difficult to appreciate how long that really is. If we think about that in terms of a single 24-hour day, then the moon was formed at about seven minutes past midnight. That’s about...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs