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Internships and other work experiences Badge icon
Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...footprint - The other aspect of social media that you need to be aware of is whether there are any posts/images from the past that could be detrimental to your work experience plans. Use your preferred search engine to look for your name and see what comes up. Grothaus (2018) offers the following tips for tidying up your digital footprint. Box 1 Tips for tidying your...
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...carbon dioxide and methane gas, in unequal quantities - 19 years of this. And if you've been in that part of the country, this is what those piles of burning, smouldering coal waste look like. So then I decided to leave that part of the world, and I was going to go to the mid-west. OK, so I ended up in Louisville, Kentucky. Well, I decided to be neighbours to a place...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...Footprints from prehistoric human civilisations around the world have been found preserved in either sand or volcanic ash. From these tracks, it is possible to measure the foot length and the length of the stride. These measurements can be used to estimate both the height of the person who made the footprint and also whether the person was walking or running. This can be...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...footprint of what you eat. Eating for environmental sustainability will need us to explore these alternative sources of food and incorporate them in diets. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SDT306 Environment: responding to change...Eating for the environment: References - Development Initiatives (2017) Global Nutrition Report...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...carbonates. (5) Southern Uplands Terrane Lower–Middle Palaeozoic sediments including turbidites, mudstones, pillow lavas, chert and some ophiolite material, indicative of an open, spreading oceanic environment. (6) Leinster–Lakes Terrane Lower Palaeozoic marine siliciclastic sediments, mudstones and limestones, along with subduction-related calc-alkaline volcanics....
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...carbon dioxide (the main 'greenhouse gas') in the Earth's atmosphere is increasing and increasing the 'greenhouse effect' (i.e. heat is trapped by the atmosphere in the same way that heat in a greenhouse is trapped by the glass). Why is the amount of carbon dioxide increasing? Because of human activity such as burning fossil fuels, and also the destruction of rainforest...
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...carbon dioxide, air and ocean temperature, flooding and sea level rise) were broken in 2016 by accessing this report 2016 Climate Trends Continue to Break Records - NASA from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and listening to the 48 second video embedded in the report. Think about: If you were making the programme today, would you focus on the same...
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...carbon fibre reinforced polymer (i.e. basically a plastic strengthened by strands of carbon), but both are examples of composite materials in that they have dissimilar materials working together. Wood has cellulose tubes with lining bonds whereas modern wheels have carbon fibres in an epoxy or polyester matrix (i.e. bonding plastic). Each provides a stiff, strong spoke...