Sci-tutors: Life processes and Living Things: Green Plants and Organisms
The article from the Sci-tutors website provides an outline of the expectations of the National Curriculum regarding green plants at Key Stages 1 - 4 and explores the various alternative conceptions held by learners.
How They Train: Snowboard Cross
Also called boardercross, snowboard cross will be in the Olympics for the second time. TIME's Sean Gregory learns how to explode out of a start gate (sort of) with Olympic hopeful Nate Holland.
Transforming Education Outside the Classroom. Sixth Report of Session 2009-10
This recently published report from the House of Commons Children, Schools and Families Committee endorses the importance of learning outside the classroom and recommends further funding from the DCSF to improve and increase provision. Despite ‘a very strong body of evidence’ to show the benefits of out-of-school learning, the report suggests that little progress has been made since the previous report on this area, five years ago.
Mediating Change: Culture and Climate Change
Every generation faces challenges that previous generations could scarcely imagine. Twenty years ago, few people were talking about climate change, now it's one of the most hotly-contested areas in politics.
How do artists, writers, musicians and broadcasters respond when a new subject appears that is as large and significant as this? What kind of novels, plays, paintings, sculptures, movies and music begin to emerge?
‘Mediating Change’ is a four-part series, chaired by BBC Radio 4’s Que
2.3 Obesity – an evolutionary perspective If you were now to take a broader biological approach to the data discussed in the previous section you might still be puzzled. Excess body weight leads to a variety of diseases, including diabetes, osteoarthritis and so on – surely this must reduce overall biological fitness. Structural materials in cells 2.3.4 More surface disruption Now let's examine some detailed images of the region of Europa's northern hemisphere that was indicated on Figure 17 (see Section 2.3.2). A medium resolution image is shown in Figure 21, and higher resolution images from within this area are shown in Author(s): "We came here to win"-Pro-Russian militant in Ukraine Buruli Ulcer Disease: Buruli Plaque Armen Awards 2014 | Talsma Virtual Maths, Cylinder Voids - Calculating volume Adding Texture to a Horse Head Sculpture Fish food Our changing estuaries Galling attack Aliens and underwater volcanoes Climate science, Vikings and other invasive species UMass Receives Historic Sport Management Archive Ulysses S. Grant's Presidency Initial teacher training
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Where does the structure of our body come from? This unit looks at the structure of cells and how proteins are used by both animals and plants to create a framework for cellular growth. You will also learn how a material as fine as spider silk can exceed the strength of steel.
Kramatorsk residents and militants unsure of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's proposals to stem violence in the country's east. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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"This video ""Buruli Ulcer Disease: Buruli Plaque"" is part of a multimedia-based module by Richard Phillips, Stephen Sarfo, Emmanuel Adu, Veronica Owusu-Afriyie, and Cary Engleberg (University of Michigan). This video addresses the question of: What is the usual presentation and course of Buruli ulcer disease?
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Interactive simulation with exercises and video demonstrating the use of auger piling and showing how to calculate the volume of cocrete needed to fill the cylindrical voids.
Learn how to add texture to a clay horse head sculpture in this ceramic art video lesson with expert Jorge Benlloch. English captions. (02:23)
Phytoplankton are tiny single-celled plants found throughout the world's oceans. Although they're small, they're crucial, because they provide food for the rest of the marine food chain.
The Dee Estuary in northwest England has been used as a shipping channel since the start of the industrial revolution.
Gall wasps are so named because they con plants and trees into making so-called galls - abnormal growths - which they use as a defence against their enemies.
Britain's being invaded by aliens. But they're not the sorts of aliens you'll see in science fiction movies. No, we're talking plants and animals. You've probably heard of a lot of them. Grey squirrels, harlequin ladybirds, buddleia, Japanese knotweed - the list goes on.
Look around the English countryside and you'll find animals and plants that shouldn't be there -- from Muntjac deer to Mitten crabs, Harlequin ladybirds to Tree of Heaven.
The vast archival collection of Mark H. McCormack, creator of the sport management and marketing industry, is now housed at UMass Amherst. This extraordinary gift, announced Nov. 3, 2010, was made to the Isenberg School of Management and the UMass Amherst Libraries, providing an unprecedented opportunity for research and education. The recognized expertise of Isenberg's sport management faculty and the Libraries' special collections and archives staff led to UMass' selection as home for the McCo
General Ulysses S. Grant parlayed his celebrity after the Civil War into a successful bid for the presidency. In this video clip, learn characteristics about President Grant and how he took advantage of his celebrity after the Civil War. (02:31)
Initial teacher training Hello, I am looking for some information (i.e. research) into the impact that trainee teachers may have on the school in which they have their teaching placements - in particular some quantative data on the impact on pupil achievement. I have searched the TTRB and found the R&D piece "Does school-based initial teacher training affect secondary school performance" and the Partnership piece "What are the benefits to schools of involvement with teacher training" (and a cou
