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What is Talk Factory?
Education & Development

What is Talk Factory?

...writing”. - Katie Fitzsimmons, Assistant Head Teacher, Fowey Community College, Cornwall Where can I get Talk Factory? Talk Factory is available for free online. You do not need to download anything. Just go to the website, read the user guide, and use Talk Factory. You need to have Flash Player v10 or higher installed. The website will check the version of Flash you...
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Article 5 mins
Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world
Education & Development

Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world

...Write down the name of each object and the reason your child gives for their ‘prediction’. Mix up the objects again and ask your child to test each one in turn in the bowl of water. Are there any surprises? If there are, ask your child to explain them. Now you can say why you think each object behaved as it did. Talk about the reasons that you and your child gave. Are...
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Activity 10 mins
Outdoor spaces for tiny humans
Education & Development

Outdoor spaces for tiny humans

...writing of Friedrich Froebel (1782–1852) who believed that this period of childhood has particular significance; the senses, through which the child experiences the world, require that ‘the surroundings… should be pure and clear – pure air, clear light, clear space’ (1826, p. 15). On the Froebel Trust website, there is a section dedicated to children and nature...
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Video 45 mins
Roadkill: What is an animal’s greatest enemy?
Society, Politics & Law

Roadkill: What is an animal’s greatest enemy?

...writes Dick Skellington...[A frog scrambles up a grass verge as a car passes by.] If, like me, this fine summer, you have been driving around our country roads and lanes you may have noticed an apparent increase in the number of dead animals, especially badgers, rabbits, and pheasants. Since the Government’s aborted cull of badgers in the West country in a failed...
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Activity 5 mins
The City: The Roman and Greek Cities
History & The Arts

The City: The Roman and Greek Cities

...writes, "Rome I venerate, in one is my cradle in the other my curule chair" - the curule chair being a symbol of Ausonius’ status. If cities conveyed Roman culture into Europe then we might expect this event to have left an enduring legacy in European culture. Given the coincidence between the sites of ancient and modern urbanism, might continuity of occupation not...
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Article 5 mins
Impossible Peace 2: Where have all the leaders gone?
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Where have all the leaders gone?

...writing on the wall of ‘not a bullet - not an ounce’, and who with colleagues made significant progress in taking many guns out of Irish politics. George Mitchell, Nancy Soderberg, Martha Pope and the arms inspectors Martti Ahtisaari and Cyril Ramaphosa are others who come to mind. We learned from South Africa and the Basque Country and they learned from us....
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Article 5 mins
Cynicism: Philosophy for dogs?
History & The Arts

Cynicism: Philosophy for dogs?

...writings by Antisthenes or Diogenes survive, so we have to rely on later writers to get a flavour of what they dished up to their victims – abusive, witty and nonchalantly insolent by turns. Their targets included philosophers, musicians, athletes, playboys, politicians and kings. It’s reported that Diogenes was once visited by Alexander the Great, who found Diogenes...
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Article 10 mins
Getting started with German 2
Languages

Getting started with German 2

...write your own answers to the following questions. You will need to decide which of the variations of gern that were introduced in the previous secton you wish to use. You can see a model answer for each question in the feedback. This should help you check that the general structure of your sentences is correct, but your response to the questions might look quite...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs