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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

29 Jan 2019: Weapon 1: Authority. The first tool which can be used to persuade people is authority. We naturally feel compelled to. listen and follow orders from those in a position of power. There are many reasons for this – for. example, not listening to

10 Sep 2020: Mechanisms of Epigenetics. Recap: chromatin structure. Each somatic human cell contains two meters of DNA, which has to be efficiently packaged. into nuclei 10-20 μm in diameter. If we were to scale the nucleus up to the size of a tennis. ball,

29 Jan 2019: Weapon 3: Liking. “People prefer to say ‘yes’ to those they know and like” (Cialdini, 1984). Do you always buy the same cereal? Or do you like to try new things every time you go to the. supermarket? Most people prefer to stick to the things

14 Oct 2020: Activity 4 - How might the mammalian fetus avoid immune attack? If you have read the other three resources for this topic, you will now be aware of the potential problem facing the embryo/fetus. Its trophoblast cells, presumably bearing

14 Feb 2019: Activity 1. Aim: reflect critically on your own childhood reading. This activity introduces some of the key debates in children’s literature criticism, including. the difficulties associated with defining children’s literature and the problems

10 Nov 2015: Activity 1 - The Simple Past Tense Now that you are familiar with the plot of Rotkäppchen, watch this video on YouTube, it was made in a primary school, the children painted pictures and read the story out loud:

14 Oct 2020: Activity 3 – High Temperature Superconductors and Quantum. Materials Research. 3 High Temperature Superconductivity: Superconductors above 30 K. BCS theory set a limit on the critical temperature that could be achieved by any. superconductor at 30

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

8 Dec 2015: Activity One: The Nabonidus Chronicle. Introduction. The Nabonidus Chronicle is a cuneiform tablet currently housed in the British Museum. It is part of a series of chronicles written on clay tablets by the Babylonian priesthood designed to keep a

15 Sep 2017: The Alevis The Alevis are the largest non-Sunni religious group in Turkey. Their numbers are impossible to ascertain with any accuracy, as they are not recognised in official census data, but it can be assumed that there are between 15-20 million

15 Sep 2017: Fethullah Gülen and his Followers Fethullah Gülen is a US-based Turkish imam who leads a transnational religious community known in Turkey as Hizmet (lit: ‘service’), but referred to internationally as the Gülen Movement (GM). The GM emerged

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

9 Mar 2016: Activity Three This worksheet contains questions based on the third video. There is no guarantee that answers have been provided for these questions, but the ideas are introduced in the videos and particularly in the case of Nettleship v Weston

11 Dec 2015: Activity Two: The Cyrus Cylinder. Introduction. When Cyrus entered Babylon in 539 BC, he immediately set about trying to secure his newly-won conquest. To do so, he went on a charm offensive and tried to convince the Babylonian people that they

28 May 2019: Resource 2 – Applications of Rational Decision-Making. Theories of rational decision-making are very relevant to a number of different areas of the economy. As the following section will demonstrate, we can move beyond the standard application of

6 Oct 2020: Activity 1 - Crunching Numbers. First, let’s take a look at the figures for the ’Brexit’ Referendum of 23 June 2016. UK. voters voted by 52% to 48% to leave the European Union. The figures below are based on polling carried out by the polling

6 Oct 2020: Activity 1 - Time Dilation. In relativity different observers can (correctly) disagree on the time between events. Put another way; “moving clocks tick slow” - What does this mean? Take a spaceship flying to Alpha Centauri (the sun’s nearest

14 Oct 2020: Activity 2 – Zooming in: how people cross borders This activity invites you to critically reflect on the varied experiences of border crossing encountered by people around the world today. The activity also stimulates reflection about the social

24 Feb 2016: Activity Three: Practical Experiment In this simple experiment, you will use paper chromatography to separate coloured compounds from coloured pens, markers etc. A spot of the mixture is placed near the bottom of a piece of chromatography filter