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Earthquakes
Science, Maths & Technology

Earthquakes

...public had made 'Richter scale' synonymous with 'earthquake magnitude scale'. Professor Richter often had trouble explaining to people that the Richter scale is a mathematical scale involving measurements and calculations on paper. 'They seem to think it is some sort of instrument or apparatus. Every year they come by wanting to look at my scale', he once said in an...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...Health Professionals, 2nd edn, London, Chapman & Hall. Chamber’s English Dictionary (1983) Edinburgh, W and R Chambers. Dewey, J. (1910) How We Think, New York, D.C. Heath & Company. Dickens, C. (1854) Hard Times, London, Bradbury & Evans [online]. Available at http://www.gutenberg.org/ files/ 786/ 786-h/ 786-h.htm (Accessed 14 June 2016). Freire, P. (1970) Pedagogy of...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...public and private sectors, and gives an analysis of the UK workforce jobs by sector. It also looks at industry changes. Social media networks A new and developing source of information about jobs and organisations. Radio programmes Local programmes might report on new businesses starting up in the area. Community notice boards They will occasionally carry job...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...health as soon as rain arrives. On Earth, there are also regions that are much drier than the UK. Look at photographs in Figure 6 and Figure 7. Both were taken in January and show differences in the availability of water depending on geography and climate. [This is a photograph of a wood. In the foreground, the ground is covered in brown leaves with a few small green...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...public, designers, and so on, it means that lots of different viewpoints can be captured in the same model, and that could radically change the way that we do design engineering in the future. SPEAKER 5: For me, the roundabout is something we don’t even think of as designed. But it’s actually a really complex example of design engineering. There’s essentially two...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
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Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...publications/statistics.html (Accessed: 7 July 2022). Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (2018) La langue française dans le monde 2018. Available at: http://observatoire.francophonie.org/2018/synthese.pdf (Accessed: 7 July 2022)...Week 6: Exploring cultures in the French-speaking world: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Elodie Vialleton, with...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...public services. Unlike governments, which may change frequently, a state is a more enduring structure. States claim sovereignty, or ultimate authority, over their territories, and this sovereignty is normally recognised both internally by citizens and externally by other states and organisations. States form the foundation of the international system and have the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...public library might offer the workshop as part of a school holiday programme. A youth group might include the workshop over a weekend or as part of a residential week away, provided necessary equipment and possibilities for filming are available at the chosen location. An alternative model, which has also proved successful, is to run the workshop as a course of several...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs