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Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...liquid and seeing whether it turns red or blue can be used as a simple test for an acid or base, but other tests would be needed to identify exactly how acidic or basic, i.e. to determine the pH. In the same way that litmus changes colour when it comes into contact with acids or bases, other substances can change colour when the pH is changed and this colour change can be...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...liquid against the side. We make a streak down the centre of the plate and then rub the swab across the surface of the plate. First in one direction and then in another to ensure maximum coverage. After overnight incubation, the lawn is visible. Lawns can be used to test the sensitivity of the bacteria to different substances, such as antibiotics. Here, specially prepared...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...sang, feel > felt) most verbs use the -ed form. Activity 7 Choose the right form of the word Timing: This activity should take around 5 minutes Discussion In 2006 I lived in a flat in the centre of town. There are lots of cows in the field. He wants to meet you. How many children do they have? That jacket does absolutely nothing for you! Even if you’ve never heard or...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...solid (not hollow), and that sensation and motion were the result of the vibrations (not the flow) of an ethereal medium – that is, an imperceptible, subtle and very elastic fluid, which was diffused throughout the universe, including animal and human bodies. Throughout the eighteenth century, physicians and philosophers argued over these different models, and sometimes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...solidity and making it look realistic and natural Not much colour shading. Value contrast is widespread This gives the art work quite a flat feel. The value contrast gives the work a cartoon-like feel Figure 2: Mind map comparing the use of colour in Life and No Woman No Cry...Making sense of art history: 6 Medium - The word ‘medium’ (plural ‘media’) refers to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...solid arguments and factual arguments, and there are extremely, well-educated and extremely brilliant science bloggers who have discovered flaws in papers who are peer reviewing papers and so some of these bloggers are really excellent and they deserve a forum, they deserve to be included, they are often better than environmental correspondents in their reporting and why...
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Audio 5 mins
Digital innovation in social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Digital innovation in social care and social work

...solid platforms between systems’. The third is headed ‘Improvement and innovation’. It contains two speech bubbles containing the words ‘Industry’ and ‘Academia’. It also contains the text ‘improve decision making; better use of data; plan service change; improve quality and performance’. The fourth is headed ‘A planned future’. It shows two figures...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...solid and imposing tree, mother sits on a rug on the grass in the foreground with her two daughters close by her – one snuggles up to the maternal bosom. A boy hangs out of the upper frame of the picture, upside-down in the air (from the branch of a tree?), nearer to the camera. In the background we discern part of a substantial 1930s house, and some tea chests. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs