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The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...think back to when you were a child growing up, and answer the following questions: What technology did you have access to? How did you spend your free time? Discussion Depending on your age you may have had access to very similar technology to that which is around now. However, for some people a TV may have been the sole form of technology you had access to. Free time...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...system. Video 2 The dissolution of sodium in ammonia. What is seen upon the dissolution of sodium in ammonia in Video 2? Alkali metals, such as sodium, dissolve reversibly to give blue solutions (in contrast to their more familiar vigorous reactions with water). The blue colour is thought to arise from electrons solvated by ammonia molecules...What chemical compounds...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...system, including all its tributaries, is called a river catchment. The water in a river comes not only from direct precipitation, springs and overland flow (i.e. water flowing across the ground surface, excluding that in streams and rivers; this is rare in temperate vegetated areas) but also from the underground flow of water, directly to the river. Part of this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...System of Moral Philosophy (Volume 2), published in 1755, he argued that ‘‘perpetual labour’ may be ‘justly adjudged’ as an appropriate punishment for law breakers. He goes on: … no law could be more effectual to promote a general industry, and restrain sloth and idleness in the lower conditions, than making perpetual slavery of this sort the ordinary...
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Article 20 mins
Being an Olympic Parent: the family behind the athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

Being an Olympic Parent: the family behind the athlete

...think of how supportive my family had been through the years, how through all the sports I tried they were there pushing me on, driving me to Eton for track or to Birmingham for football. They always gave me everything I needed.” (Greg Rutherford, 2012 Olympic gold medalist) In most cases, parents are responsible for introducing their children to the sport. For example,...
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Article 5 mins
Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer

...thinking back to 2003 and to the last act of decommissioning, when the IRA put arms beyond use as part of a sequence to restore the political institutions at Stormont. But that initiative fell apart when the Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble demanded more detail from de Chastelain on what exactly had been destroyed; detail the Commission could not supply because of the...
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Article 5 mins
FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT

...think, feel, and respond to later experiences, creating ongoing patterns of distress, negative beliefs, and unhelpful coping behaviours. Shame and pain may resurface at different life stages, triggered by recalling the event, hearing others discuss FGM, encountering insensitive reactions, or during medical examinations, intimacy, menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth....
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Article 5 mins
Cefnogi datblygiad plant
Education & Development

Cefnogi datblygiad plant

...system rheoli dysgu arall. Er y gallwch ddefnyddio'r fformatau amgen all-lein er cyfleustra i chi, bydd angen i chi weithio drwy'r fersiwn ar-lein o'r cwrs er mwyn sicrhau ymarferoldeb llawn (fel defnyddio dolenni, defnyddio'r deunyddiau sain a fideo, a chwblhau'r cwisiau). Defnyddiwch y lawrlwythiadau fel adnoddau cyfleus ar gyfer astudio'r deunyddiau pan na fyddwch ar y...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs