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Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...solid than as a liquid. This makes ice less dense than water, and is why ice cubes float on the top of your drink. It is also the main reason why icebergs float in the ocean when ice breaks off an ice sheet (the other reasons being that they contain air bubbles trapped in the ice, and salty seawater is denser than the fresh water from which the land ice forms)...Week 2:...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...sang it ‘spiky’ or ‘like a lament’)… How to sing and recognise a ‘round’… How to breathe in the right places… How to sing in an ensemble… How to conduct in 4 time (Source: Philpott, 2008, p. 4) Activity 4 Timing: Allow about 1 hour Choose a piece of music that you know well and feel that you have a particular affinity with and think about how you came...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...sang! attacking the dawn like so many choir boys attacking an iced cake. Forced to listen, she had stretched for her favourite reading – an Outline of History – and had spent the hours between three and five thinking of rhododendron forests in Piccadilly; when the entire continent, not then she understood, divided by a channel, was all one; populated, she understood,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...solids and liquids, showing that there is much to explore in physics above the most fundamental level. The challenges are as much to do with understanding the consequences of known laws as with discovering new ones. Perhaps the ultimate challenge will be to provide a chain of understanding that links fundamental principles to truly complex phenomena, such as how a brain...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...solids, liquids and gases. Another teacher might emphasise that the particle theory is a model of what matter is like, drawing attention to the way in which this idea developed and how it relates to evidence. Reiss (2002, p. 43) gives the popular view of science as consisting of: a body of knowledge about the world. The facts that comprise this knowledge are derived from...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...liquids If you had to measure out 350 ml of juice for a recipe, where would the liquid come to in this jug? [Described image] Figure 29 Measuring liquids in a measuring jug Method There are three marks on the jug between 300 ml and 400 ml. These mark 325, 350 and 375 ml. So you need to fill the jug to the middle mark (remember to look for the level where the liquid...
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Free course 48 hrs
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...solid black line with yellow arrows indicating sailing direction. Next, they sailed past the grasslands and savannahs of the Sahel and Sudan. These zones are home to many species of grass, which coexist with trees that form woodlands in a balance that is thought to be regulated in a large part by fire. In particular, the expansion of grasslands and savannahs is promoted...
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Article 20 mins
Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...solid from a few coloured cubes and then describe it. The others in the group then try to visualise the configuration and make their own. You might like to try this activity in your classroom. Further classroom activities for visualisation are available by clicking on the ‘view document’ and website links below. Explore some of these with colleagues and identify two...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs