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Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...Research Centre, National University of Ireland Galway. Available at: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/media/unescochildandfamilyresearchcentre/Full-Report-1.pdf (Accessed: 25 October 2022). Cho, A., Byrne, J. and Pelter, Z. (2020) Digital civic engagement by young people. Available at: https://www.unicef.org/globalinsight/reports/digital-civic-engagement-young-people...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?
Science, Maths & Technology

How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?

...children each, and that their children (and grandchildren, and so on) have offspring after 25 years. How many generations are alive upon arrival and what are their populations? The first generation of 500 couples produce 4 × 500 = 2000 children. After 25 years, these children will produce 4 × 1000 = 4000 grandchildren. Fifty years into the voyage, the first generation...
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Is trick-or-treating legal or not?
Society, Politics & Law

Is trick-or-treating legal or not?

...Children dressed up for a Halloween party - trick or treating at a door] With regard to age limits for those who go trick-or-treating, there is no legal restriction in the UK from anyone of any age participating in these activities. However, parents need to ensure that their children are safe, and they must consider whether their child is of sufficient age not to be...
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Beyond the plate: Autism, food and sensory sensitivities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beyond the plate: Autism, food and sensory sensitivities

...children can be subtly blamed or openly stigmatised for not providing their children with a healthy diet, sufficient choice of foods, or for not ‘encouraging’ them enough to try a more varied diet. However, the reality is much more complicated than that. One ‘side effect’ of food that has been mass-manufactured for efficiency – this includes many types of...
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Article 5 mins
Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK
Education & Development

Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK

...children. A competitive high pressure home environment. Pressing kids to do well in school. Putting children through private tutoring and coaching classes with the aim of getting them into grammar schools and prestigious universities. Anxiety about educational achievement hangs over the parent–child relationship among South Asian families to the detriment of the...
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Article 10 mins
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...Research UK, The National Trust (England and Wales), Oxfam and the Save the Children Fund...Week 3: Structure and functions of the voluntary sector: 2.2 The workforce - [People arranged in circles.] Figure 4 Working in voluntary organisations In Week 7 you will find out more about the volunteering ‘workforce’ but here the focus is on the paid workforce. According to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Walkie talkie
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walkie talkie

Learning any new skill, like walking and talking, requires children to encode, store and retrieve memories effectively. Lots of practise and sleep helps these skills become automatic and effortless...Please note - there is no sound or speech in this video.
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Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...children’s verses “A Child’s Garden of Verses.” First published in 1885, the collection continues to be in circulation today. Wikipedia informs us that the collection “contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics ‘Foreign Children,’ ‘The Lamplighter,’ ‘The Land of Counterpane,’ ‘Bed in Summer,’ ‘My Shadow’ and ‘The Swing.’”...
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