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Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...de la Paz. adapted from an image by Angela Sevin: the original can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/angela7/261618376 [Details correct as of 24 October 2011] Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. Every effort has been...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...Table 1 gives additional information about these minerals, including their true colours The most common silicate minerals found in igneous rocks (most of which are also common in sedimentary and metamorphic rocks) are listed in Table 1: minerals rich in silicon appear towards the top, and those poorer in silicon but richer in magnesium and iron appear towards the bottom...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...table showing Religious Diversity Index Scores by Country by the Pew Research Center. The table initially displays in alphabetical order of country, but by clicking on the headers you can make it display in order of Diversity Index (RDI), or in the order of percentages of a particular religion. Explore the table and note down your thoughts as to why the European countries...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...Table 1). Table 1: Examples of driving forces of compulsory education (based on Benavot et al, 2006) COUNTRY/REGION SOME OF THE DRIVING FORCES France Trying to control a powerful catholic church. Prussia Supporting the development of the protestant faith. Scandinavia Supporting the development of the protestant faith. Japan Developing industrial and military...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...Table 1). Table 1 Comparison of mortality with sickness recorded by friendly societies in England and Wales LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH IN ENGLAND AND WALES AMONG MEN, IN 1908 LEADING CAUSES OF SICKNESS IN THREE FRIENDLY SOCIETIES, 1896–1919 CAUSE % OF TOTAL CAUSE % OF TOTAL Heart disease 14 Accidents 16 Tuberculosis 14 Poorly identified 13 Old age 8 Influenza and catarrh...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...table I have tells me that a litre is one cubic decimetre. (One decimetre is a tenth of a metre.) How many cubic centimetres are there in a litre? Can I use the measuring jug for 420 cc? Answer There is one cubic decimetre in a litre, so 1 litre measures 1 dm × 1 dm × 1 dm (if shaped into a cube). (Note: 1 m = 10 dm = 100 cm.) There are 10 centimetres in a decimetre, so...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...de dum, de dum, de dum, de dum, de dum. One of the effects of employing this fairly regular metre is that deviations from it tend to stand out. Look, for example, at the following passage: but if’t chance Some cursed example poison’t near the head, Death and diseases through the whole land spread. (1.1.13–15) Line 14 is metrically quite even, but line 15 is a bit...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...table and produce a box of little screw-drivers and punches, and while I sat on his knee he would unscrew the lid and take out the wheels to see what was the matter. He must have been a clever mechanist, for the result was always the same-after a longer or shorter period the music began again. Sometimes when the musical-boxes had played all their tunes he used to put them...
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