Ocean Creature Feature
This OLogy matching game challenges kids to match pictures of eight ocean creatures with their descriptions. The reward? Eight new OLogy trading cards.
The Nature of Diamonds
This Web site, created to complement an American Museum of Natural History exhibition, looks at how diamonds are created (naturally and synthetically), and how they have been used throughout history.
1.4 Experiencing dyslexia To illustrate just how problematic the idea of ‘abnormality’ is in practice, we will consider the condition of developmental dyslexia, dyslexia for short. Dyslexia is relatively common and you may have knowledge of it from friends or personal experience. The following section illustrates many of the difficulties experienced by people with dyslexia, and it also highlights more generally some of the problems that can occur if you are not, in some sense, ‘normal’.
Introduction Dyslexia is a condition affecting literacy skills. This unit analyses how our image of normality affects the way we as a society define such conditions. You will learn how important it is to integrate the different psychological accounts of dyslexia in order to provide a full explanation of potential causes and strategies for remediation. This unit is an adapted extract from the Open University courseAuthor(s):
How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds
This two minute video shows how to scoop out the numerous seeds in a carved pumpkin and how to roast them finely. The process involves salt and pepper after drying them completely for a day. A good activity around Halloween.
Speed Reading
This two minute video explains some of the methods for improving reading speed include increasing the range of the
block of words that are read at the same time, as well as avoiding the urge to go back and reread a sentence. Improve focus and reduce the length of time required to understand a sentence. It also explains why speed reading is important.
Regenerating The Heart
This 1:30 video is about preventing heart attacks and heart
transplants. Thousands of people need the heart transplant due to heart attacks but only about 2000 are available. The procedure of taking muscle sells in the patient's leg, grow them in the leg, then inject them in the new cells into the heart and therefore causing the heart to pump more blood. Those who
take this procedure, their heart rate pumps at least 58% more
blood.
How to Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle
This 2:30 long video is about adopting to a healthy lifestyle startign with eating a healthy breakfast because you want to boost metabolism and help you burn more calories. Exercise can be as simple as just taking the stairs rather than the escalator/elevator. This is a easy to follow video that helps show students that small steps can result in large improvements.
Physical Therapist Tools
This three minute video is about tools and machines that are used by a physical therapist. They include small machines, weights, measuring equipment and treadmills and elyptical machines. All of these tools of equipment help regain strength, make sure the joints are functioning correctly, and prevent the loss of mobility. This video could be used as part of a career day as well as to motivate students to think of machines that could help them improve their own conditioning.
How To Become a Mechanical Engineer
Mechanical engineering is the science of designing, developing, and creating mechanical systems is the subject of this short video. Mechanical engineers make devices like engines, generators, turbines, refrigerators, elevators, robots for manufacturing, tools, and many other types of equipment and machines. This video shows some of the complexity that the profession offers.
Household Food Security: Module 1: Introduction to Household Food Security
In this module we will introduce you to concepts such as food security, food insecurity, nutrition security, livelihood security, food policies and programmes and the role of stakeholders and facilitators. You will gain the knowledge and skills required to gather information on many different levels, from the macro to the micro level. You will also, in time, become equipped to analyse community and household needs, understand the implications of policies and strategies for communities and househ
Household Food Security Programme Description
This study guide for the module PHFS01K Introduction to Household Food Security is the first of six modules in the programme to be piloted with a group of volunteers linked to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the Eastern Cape. The Eastern Cape Non-governmental Organisation Coalition (ECNGOC) has supported the strategy through advocacy and helping to link organisations with the project, thus enabling the recruitment of practising volunteers or community development workers who want to be
Allometry in Biological Systems
This is a laboratory exercise appropriate for sophomore level students. No prior math is required, and lab exercise can be adapted if computer facilities are available.
Introduction The key message of this unit is that different psychologists focus on different aspects of human behaviour in different ways. Take the topic of learning, some psychologists will study what happens in our brain when we learn, while others will consider how we learn within a social context. This unit will first highlight how psychology is now a very visible part of everyday life and then explore its diverse roots in medicine, philosophy, biology, psychoanalysis and e
Acknowledgements The content of this unit was developed by Volker Patent, Faculty of Social Science at the Open University. The work was funded by the Higher Education Academy and the content is released under the Creative Commons Licence. The Open University gratefully acknowledges the Higher Education Academy (HEA) Psychology Network for its financial support to the development of SPSS which forms part of the Op
Portable Sundial
Students investigate the accuracy of sundials and the discrepancy that lies between "real time" and "clock time." They track the position of the sun during the course of a relatively short period of time as they make a shadow plot, a horizontal sundial, and a diptych sundial. (The activity may be abridged to include only one or two of the different sundials, instead of all three.)
Sleep Disorders
This patient education program explains sleep and its importance for good health. It also discusses sleep disorders including insomnia, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, narcolepsy, and gives tips for sleeping well. This resource is a MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine, designed and developed by the Patient Education Institute.
Sounds in Poetry - Quiz
To understand and recognize sound techniques in poetry.
1.2 Hints before you start Each section of this unit requires you to follow a series of instructions such as: “Press the Enter button” “Place your mouse over the radio buttons …” Each activity should take approximately 20 minutes to complete. Here is a summary of the activities in this unit: Activity 1: How to start SPSS This is recommended if you have not had any experience with SPSS and are fairly new to computers. Activity 2: Using the
Poetry Terms - Quiz
To revise poetic terms and techniques.
