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Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...archaeology, entomology, and mycology. "What was rare was how Potter used her gifts in diverse areas, from stories for children and animal husbandry to the preservation of land, farms, and watersheds in the English Lake District," Lear, 2007. Albert Einstein, the most famous scientist from the 20th century, was a theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...archaeological sites; from surviving buildings; from the visual arts and from objects like coins, we take the individual pieces of evidence, build them up into a wider picture and try to create an holistic view of Rome and its empire. But each generation approaches the evidence from a different perspective. In “writing” history, our own identity and ideas from our own...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...archaeology. We hope that these examples illustrate some of the very broad applications of maths and how mathematical relationships can be used in making decisions. As you work through these examples, you may like to consider where else maths might be used in each of these topics! When you are trying to solve a real-life problem mathematically, you often use formulas that...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...archaeology, so everything that makes them so unique, and then I will drop in the conservation messages and the wildlife messages within those films, because I know that I’ll be able to get a higher number of viewers. So I think for me the future is more adventure-based I suppose you could say, and then I’ll get the message in through that. Because I like to appeal to...
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Video 30 mins
Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...archaeological finds, and Herodotus wrote about a Persian seer who in 424 BC evaded execution by amputating his own foot and using a wooden filler to escape to the next town 30 miles away (Norton, 2007). Custom-built prosthetics made from wood, metal and leather and controlled by cables and gears have been found in France and Switzerland dating from the late fifteenth...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...archaeological site of ancient Olympia. Olympia is globally renowned as the birthplace of the Olympic Games and it is a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site (Bassi & Kettunen, 2008). In the end, the 2007 fires burned right around the edges of the site. None of the ancient ruins were burnt. However, the surrounding...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...Archaeological Museum, Athens. The Iliad and Odyssey are many thousands of lines long (each was divided into 24 subsections, or books, by later editors) yet they still do not tell the whole story of the Trojan War, nor were they the only version of these stories known to ancient Greeks. They form part of a much wider mythical tradition which was told and retold in...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...archaeological remains. Pianosa can only be visited with an organised guided tour because it was the seat of a maximum-security prison for terrorists and mafia criminals between 1968 and 2011, when it was closed down for good. [Described image] Vista panoramica dell’ Isola d’Elba [Described image] Villa San Martino, casa di Napoleone. [Described image] Isola del...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs