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Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...creative. It taught maths outside of the classroom and it made it fun for the children as well. It’s something that I wouldn’t thought of if I hadn’t have come across that resource on TES. As a professional you’ve got to be time efficient and you’ve got to be a lifelong learner yourself as well. Part of this as a teacher is utilising the skills of other people....
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to floodplain meadows
Nature & Environment

An introduction to floodplain meadows

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below (and/or referenced in the course) is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Figure 1: © Michael Dodd Figure 2:...
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...Creative Industries at King's College, London. It is difficult in a way, George isn't it to start off with to think about the garden as being radical? I mean let's talk about its general image. Generally it's suburban, it's restful. George McKay: Look at that song you've just played. They want to go down to a farm, back to the garden. Why do they want to go there? In...
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...write an algorithm to solve it." [Described image] Figure 3 (a) Human computers working on test flight calculations at the predecessor of NASA in 1949 (b) two NASA employees in 1990 programming a computer so it can automatically calibrate aircraft equipment Having met the ideas of algorithms and computational problems, let us state what computational thinking is not:...
David Bowie and science fiction
History & The Arts

David Bowie and science fiction

...London Falling, New Worlds and its writers were part of the make-up of Swinging London, and, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, bands such as Pink Floyd (of which Bowie was a fan) were taking sf imagery into their work. As with so much else in the late twentieth century, it will be impossible to write the history of sf without mentioning Bowie. More on David Bowie...
Election days: 1908 - Churchill challenged by the women
History & The Arts

Election days: 1908 - Churchill challenged by the women

...writes from the office of the National Women's Social and Political Union: "Except that we regard it as a sign that our campaign against the Government is having its effect, we attach no value to Mr. Churchill's assertion that he will use his influence with the Government in the interests of women's suffrage. "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman is in favour of 'votes for...
Live long and prosper?
Science, Maths & Technology

Live long and prosper?

...It’s been estimated that around 30 per cent of Sun-like stars may have Earth-like planets in their habitable zones. At the time of writing, astronomers don’t yet know of any Earth-sized, Earth-mass planets in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars, although it may be only a matter of time until some are found. Perhaps we do live in the Star Trek universe after all?...
Think like a scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Think like a scientist

...write very big or very small numbers, and why it’s useful for communicating your results. Explaining negative numbers Negative numbers can seem hard to understand, but looking at different temperatures around the world shows that it's not that difficult. Why keep a journal Keeping a lab notebook is a vital skill for any scientist and beginners to the subject often...