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Writing what you know
History & The Arts

Writing what you know

...resource...Writing what you know: 3.1 Involving all of the senses - Becoming more aware of the everyday world around you involves more than just looking. If writing is a perceptual art then perception should involve all of the senses, not just the visual. You must also start to smell, feel, taste and hear the world you are trying to realise. So, in the made up scenario,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...resource to draw on. Here, though, you just need to read from pages 8–27. You’ll be asked to answer a series of questions in the next task, so you might want to bear them in mind as you read. Please note that a new version of this report is published annually. The 2019 version is being used for the tasks in this activity for consistency, but the report is a useful...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...human eye) and a giant star (please note this video has no spoken audio)...Week 1: Planets and the Solar System: 2 Stars and galaxies - The Sun is just one of billions of stars in our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Like all stars, the Sun is a large ball of gas, mostly hydrogen, which is so massive that its centre has become a nuclear reactor. The weight of all the layers of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...human eye adapts to dark conditions and how to use dark adapted vision to its best effect when observing the night sky have an understanding of the different types of telescopes and the advantages of an observatory location at a remote site such as Tenerife understand how the positions of celestial objects are specified and be able to use this knowledge to predict when a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...human beings are capable of violence. The strength of the West German state in producing economic and social security has allowed Germans to forget the safe conditions that made this development possible. Read: Germany faces one of its greatest political challenges since World War II What, then, is to be done? Dennis Shen, writing for the LSE's EUROPP blog, suggests that...
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Article 30 mins
Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...humans perform ... or is it time to put an end to 'inspiration porn'? Dr Frances Ryan explains why the suggestion that paralympians are "inspirational" is problematic: See more from Frances Ryan at The Guardian London 2012 did shift pereceptions of para sports The last Paralympics did, according to research by Bournemouth University, change how the wider public thought...
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Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...human mind was the ultimate source of our reality, and the material world only an illusion projected by it. The dissociative effects of nitrous oxide, in which consciousness seemed to escape and transcend the physical body, made compelling sense of this insight; and Davy’s climactic revelation that ‘nothing exists but thoughts’ would echo it through the century to...
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How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. His success would terrify the artist; he would rush away from his odious handywork, horror-stricken. He would hope that, left to itself, the slight spark of life which he had communicated would fade; that this thing, which had received such imperfect animation, would subside into dead matter;...
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Article 5 mins