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15 Nov 2018: Activity 4: Summary Questions. Task. 1. What different theories of the body existed in early modern Europe? 2. If you had been born in the Renaissance, do you think you would have. experienced your own body differently? How could historians begin to

14 Nov 2018: Activity 6: Poem Comparison. Task. Compare two or three of the poems included in this resource. 1. How do your chosen poems approach strong emotions, such as:.  horror.  despair.  wonder? 2. How do your chosen poems describe nature? 3. How

7 Dec 2018: Exercises Answers. Q1. Q2. Polar bears have a small surface area to volume ratio. They are very large, and. have been getting larger due to evolution. Due to their large size, and their small. SA/V ratio, they store heat better than something which

7 Dec 2018: Activity 3 – Exercises. Answers to all questions are provided at the end of the worksheet. Q1. In the table below, describe what the following elements or compounds are used for. at the macroscale, and think about what they could be used for at

1 Nov 2018: Task 1 Answers. 1. What is the earliest date layer 8 could have been formed? 2nd. century AD. 2. Which layers were formed during the Roman period? (The Roman period. began in Britain in the mid-1st. century AD). 8, 7, 6 and 5. Layer 8 contains Roman

7 Dec 2018: Activity 2 – Instrumentation. As nanoscience or nanotechnology can’t be seen with the naked eye, specific tools. are used to be able to look at science on this scale. Examples of this are the AFM. (Atomic Force Microscopy) and the SEM (Scanning

29 Mar 2018: So, now that you have explored the structure and basic workings of the brain, we will begin to explore how this results in one of the greatest complexities of the brain – memory. Memory. The exact nature in which we are able to recall a childhood

7 Dec 2018: Activity 1 – Case Studies of Applications. 1. Medicine. Au-NP are being used in cancer therapies. They are so small they can be. delivered exactly where needed, and they can be functionalised with. antibodies/peptides/ which are overexpressed by

17 Aug 2018: In this activity we will explore the Parthenon as a religious monument. Athena Parthenos. Inside the ‘naos’ of the Parthenon, there was in antiquity a giant chryselephantine statue of the. goddess Athena Parthenos: a statue made out of gold and

14 Nov 2018: Dissection of human bodies appears to have begun at the end of the thirteenth century. Initially, anatomy was used to illustrate the ideas of ancient writers – the act of dissecting the body was thought to demonstrate the accuracy of their ideas.

1 Nov 2018: Task 1-Timeline of events. Activity 1: Answers. Years. 1347. People and events. The Black Death. Descriptions of people and events. Many physicians blamed the stars and planets for this occur-rence. The result of many different factors including a

14 Nov 2018: Many people assume that the human body today is essentially the same as it was in the past. Is this true, though? In this activity we will look at what factors can influence the way we use our bodies and try to think about how our ideas about the

15 Nov 2018: A blazon is a poetic device in which the speaker of the poem catalogues each part of a woman’s body. Typically, these body parts are compared to aspects of the natural world: teeth are compared to pearls, blonde hair to gold, etc. This device

29 Dec 2018: Activity 2. This is an exercise on morphology. What is morphology? Morphology is the study of words. More. specifically, it is the study of the different components of words, and the structural framework. within which these components are arranged

14 Nov 2018: In this activity we will be looking at ‘The World’ by Christina Rossetti. Christina Rossetti’s sonnet ‘The World’ also features an encounter with ‘naked horror’:. The World. By day she woos me, soft, exceeding fair:. But all night as

1 Nov 2018: Microscopes and telescopes are powerful tools and easily recognisable symbols of science and technology. Both inventions were important in moving the Scientific Revolution forward. In this activity, we’ll investigate the development of astronomy

29 Dec 2018: Activity 1. This is an exercise on articulatory phonetics, which is one of the three main branches of. phonetics. The other two branches of phonetics are acoustic phonetics and auditory. phonetics. Here is a brief explanation about what they involve:

4 Dec 2018: Activity 1 – Musical Apologies. What is a musical apology? When we think of an apology, we tend to think of an expression of regret for having done. something wrong. However, apologies are actually quite complex sets of actions: in addition. to

15 Nov 2018: A.D. – Abbreviation for the term Anno Domini Nostri Jesu Christi (or simply Anno Domini) which means ""in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ."" Years are counted from the traditionally recog-nized year of the birth of Jesus. In academic, historical,

14 Nov 2018: In this activity we will be looking at two poems by Emily Dickinson called ’There came a Wind. like a Bugle’ and ’The Soul has Bandaged moments’. There came a Wind like a Bugle. There came a Wind like a Bugle-. It quivered through the Grass.