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Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be retrieved and re-visited. If you prefer, however, you can record your ideas in response boxes in the course – in this case, in order to retrieve your responses you will need to log on to the course. This OpenLearn course is part of a collection of Open University short courses for...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...physical resource as it is the one that is essential to human survival. Understanding the global water cycle and how we use water is essential to planning a sustainable source of water for the future. In the UK there are areas where water supplies are limited, as shown by recent droughts. Globally, there are many areas that do not have enough water to support the current...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be retrieved and re-visited. If you prefer, however, you can record your ideas in response boxes in the course – in this case, in order to retrieve your responses you will need to log on to the course. This OpenLearn course is part of a collection of Open University short courses for...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...physics we don't often ask the question ‘What is physics?’.) So I will be teaching systems by example as well as by theory. You will learn about the problems of defining a system. You will meet some of the key concepts used in systems theory: boundary, environment, positive and negative feedback, etc. You will encounter selected extracts from the writings of noted...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...physical eyes? Walking over the downs, miscalled a plain, anticipating something tremendous, I finally got away from the woods at Amesbury and spied the thing I sought before me far away on the slope of a green down, and stood still and then sat down in pure astonishment. Was this Stonehenge—this cluster of poor little grey stones, looking in the distance like a small...
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Article 10 mins
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...physical exercise to maintain the health of bodies that evolved for a physically active hunter-gatherer lifestyle, perhaps we ought to start doing more cognitive exercises to maintain our mental health, especially if we only speak one language. In recent years, there has been a backlash against the studies showing benefits from bilingualism. Some researchers tried and...
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Article 10 mins
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...Physical Anthropology and then I went on and did a degree in Environmental Studies, because the programme that I chose allowed me essentially to write the programme that I wanted to do and there aren’t many places that will let you do that, they always want to line you up and put you in boxes very early on and I just knew what I wanted to do, which was to look actually...
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Video 30 mins
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...physical characteristics (e.g. length of hair, clothes). Stage 2: Gender stability Children recognise that gender is stable over time: boys will grow up to be daddies, and girls will grow up to be mummies. However, the unchanging nature of gender – that it remains the same regardless of changes in superficial appearance or activity choice – is not yet appreciated....
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Article 15 mins