#bbc bitesize

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Seen a rumour on twitter that BBC bitesize might go due to BBC funding cuts. Bitesize is an amazing, free, educational resource that students love and was also incredibly useful during lockdown and when students had to self isolate.

The amount of work that must have gone into bitesize over the years is insane.

But, apparently, for profit revision websites may have lobbied the government, as they can't compete with such a comprehensive free resource whilst charging.

Which may be one of the reasons bitesize has to go.

And this whilst Nadhim Zahawi talks bullshit about every student getting access to free tutoring (newsflash, they won't).

Just another thing the Tories are doing in education to keep poor kids down.

#uk politics #education #bitesize #bbc bitesize #revision #inequality #free resources

[cruelsister-moved2]

where the hell are ppl getting the idea that british english puts punctuation outside of quotation marks when writing dialogue???? this is the third time I've heard someone claim this and it's like. have u ever read a book before in ur life?

#I've only seen single quotation marks used in very old books too #it's mostly the exact same way as american English #but if u google it american english sites will tell u if ur writing british english u need to employ INSANE punctuation #and I was going insane until I found BBC bitesize the only actual british english source in the results #being like. no u do it with double marks and a comma #this made me so irrationally madddd

[inconsistenciesintime]

river song has been busy

#opened bbc bitesize to this #no thoughts only river is so incredibly leng #river song #doctor who

[nemeyuko]

The most book accurate version of Jekyll and Hyde I seen was the Saturday night live skit and a French film.

#also the bbc bitesize skit but it was for kids who are reading the book #the French film is hard to find with English subtitles but I got a hold of one #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde #dr jekyll and mr hyde #dr. jekyll and mr. hyde #jekyll and hyde #jekyll & hyde #robert louis stevenson

[eatdrinkandburyme]

if my brain continues working a little better I'm gonna work on my information appraisal skills like how to read different types of sources

#on the bbc bitesize page for misinformation and disinformation it contains a third thing I do not know the name of but is still propaganda

[ausetkmt]

The triangular slave trade

The slave trade made many people very rich but also ruined the lives of those captured into slavery. As resistance grew and profit declined, the trade was finally abolished.

Consequences of the slave trade

An enslaved African man is examined by traders.

The slave trade was huge – British ships transported 2.6 million enslaved people. It has been estimated overall, about 12 million African people were captured to be taken to the Americas in slavery.

The majority of enslaved West African people were taken to South America. More than 55 per cent of enslaved African people were taken to Brazil and Spanish South America. Brazil has the second largest black population in the world outside of Nigeria.

Around 35 per cent of enslaved people were taken to the West Indies; less than five per cent were taken to North America. The death rate of enslaved African people was horrific.

Unknown millions died in Africa before they even made it to the ships.

It has been estimated that perhaps a fifth of enslaved African people died on the Middle Passage across the Atlantic.

In the Americas, the death rate amongst enslaved people was also very high. Some historians suggest that the death rate in the 'seasoning camps' was up to 50%.

The enslaved African people took with them their agricultural knowledge, skilled craftsmanship, religion, traditions, cooking, clothes, music and dance.

For example, enslaved West African people brought their own varieties of rice and cultivation techniques to parts of the southern United States. Their expertise in growing rice in the hot and swampy conditions led to rice being one of the biggest cash crops in the entire country.

Musical instruments such as the banjo, language such as Haitian Creole, and dances such as the Brazilian Samba and Capoeira were also imported into these new territories and influenced the local cultures there.

Legacies of slavery

Some historians think that white supremacist racism grew in the United States and Europe as a direct result of slavery.

To counter the abolitionists, defenders of the slave trade justified slavery by arguing that people from sub-Saharan Africa were uncivilised compared to white, Western populations. These same arguments were later used in an attempt to justify white supremacy.

The slave trade had a devastating effect on Africa that lasted long after abolition. Aside from the loss of millions of young African people, the slave trade worsened existing conflicts between African nations. Guns and modern weapons – used to trade for enslaved people – made wars more common and far more deadly.

The result was that much of Africa was left underdeveloped and falling behind European counterparts. Some historians have expressed the opinion that the damage done by the slave trade paved the way for the colonisation of Africa by European nations in the 19th century.

The African historian Joseph Inikori (1987) suggested that the slave trade allowed the Industrial Revolution to happen. He believes that British industry benefited by supplying the factory-made goods in exchange for enslaved African people and that profits made in the slave trade provided money for investment in British industry.

After Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807, the 'West Africa Squadron' of the Royal Navy patrolled the Atlantic Ocean trying to stop the slave trade. The British also signed anti-slavery treaties with many African rulers.

#Triangular Slave Trade #slave trade #uk slave trade #history of slavery of Africans #Consequences of the slave trade - The triangular slave trade - 4th level History Revision - BBC Bitesize

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Hello! I'm the anon who asked you a while ago about pronouncing ll in Welsh (your explanation was very helpful, by the way - thank you!) Now I've encountered another part of Welsh that's challenging me: spelling mutations. The word "coch" will change to "goch", for example, and "bwyta" will change to "fwyta". Duolingo, unfortunately, doesn't really explain WHEN these mutations need to occur, only that they're a thing that happens. Do you have any resources where I can study these mutations, or can you explain basically why they happen? Diolch!

Hello hello! I talked a bit about mutations here, if that's any use. BBC Bitesize has some nice resources too - assuming this link works, this is a pretty good PDF. Hopefully those are helpful!

#asks #wales! #closed for cleaning on mondays #linguistics

[pinkacademic]

Studying for Fun

Ok, Girlies, Part of me was like “duh, Queenie, they know how to have fun;” but then I realise that what I actually needed to do was provide advice for structured fun- not to mention resources!!  So, those are my two points for today.

Part 1: Structure

You know what your actual timetable looks like, but here’s a sample one that I’ve made that might help you add structure to your day

Now here’s how to actually do that

List out every single thing you HAVE to do in a week- work, studying etc, but also tidying, cleaning, what day is laundry day.

Make up a grid like this, or do a list of times, however you’d prefer. Fill in all the immovable things- work*,lectures- and then fill the moveable things- study time, exercise, travel time to your lectures- around them.

if you work shifts, you may need to do this weekly 3. Be realistic. Are you actually going to wake up at 5:00? Girl, are you not going to socials on Wednesday nights? Are you not going to need a little bit more time in bed on a Thursday morning? You know what makes sense for you. But also, can you realistically get all the things you need to do done if you wake up at 10 and go to bed by 6?

I’m using silly examples, but I think you get the point that you need to make sure you are working healthily for your lifestyle.

Let me know if you want a more in-depth tutorial on this!

Another idea that can really help for structure and discipline is parallel play … that’s a phrase usually thrown about in child development, but whatever…

Parallel play or body doubling is essentially two or more people working on two separate tasks, but in the same space.

study with your friends

Set goals with your friends

Call them and exercise together

Accountability buddies are how you keep up structure.

Part Two: resources

These are some of my favourite places to learn things

(Yes, I do like history, how did you guess?)

*i don't use duolingo anymore bc of the whole ai, staff layoff thing... but I thought I ought include it...

Here's some others!!

Ok I'm DONE!!

#pink academia #pink #academia #think pink #pink academia masterpost project #Youtube

[myautisticpov]

I think it’s been easy for me to go “oh, yeah, same” on posts and stuff about being smart enough at school that you don’t need to study, and then not knowing how as you get older

But, like, while it looks similar to the issues I had, I did actually have to study from a young age

They make you take (or made you, I think they’ve been talking about getting rid of them) standardised tests in the UK when you’re six/seven, and I was on track to fail mine

But then I studied and I got the highest marks

It’s not that I never had to study, it’s that the resources available to me as I got older stopped being suitable for my ADHD

When I was a kid, my parents would buy me SATs (that’s what the exams are called) prep video games

They weren’t even that video game-y, but just having the interactive environment that I could use on my own, and the little canned “yay!” noise when I got a question right was enough for me, at age six/seven, to sit in front of my computer and do the practise tests, even without my parents prompting me

Like, I asked for them to buy me the maths blaster games - no one needed to force me to try to beat the game on the hardest difficulty!

But as I got older, you stopped being able to buy the games. BBC Bitesize got less and less gamified and more and more like a digitised text book...

During my GCSEs (age 14-16), my mum scheduled revision time for me, and that wasn’t fun, but it was enough

By my A-Levels (age 16-18), I should have been able to schedule that time myself, but I just couldn’t face one more boring text book

Teachers tried to make learning fun in the classroom, but that always meant making posters as a group, and I was pretty badly bullied in school, so that was never fun for me

Idk, I think “I never learned how to study” is an easy explanation, and because I couldn’t concentrate in class, I did get a reputation in school for being someone who read books under the desk and then magically got full marks in the tests

But it wasn’t magic, I did put in the work, and I did have those skills, but the tools I needed to accommodate myself got taken away as I got older, and they were never replaced with anything else

[csolarstorm]

Is Z-A Just Zygarde-A?

In my last post, I theorized that the A in "Z-A" is Yggdrasil, or the Tree of Life Pokemon. Sometime during that post, it clicked: none of my theory would change if the "A" Pokemon was also a new, larger configuration of Zygarde. In fact, it would help.

Source: BBC Bitesized

Bulbapedia theorizes that Zygarde Cells are based on slime molds, which would be pretty cool. But what if they're actually plant cells?

Of course, Zygarde isn't a Grass Pokemon, but can something made of 10-100 cells really be called a "plant" still? Maybe, I don't know. But Zygarde is a Ground Pokemon, so it's close.

Here's my theory: Zygarde was once a huge Grass-type Legendary Pokemon, the Yggdrasil Pokemon that Xerneas and Yveltal centered around, and may have even lived in originally before Team Flare captured them. This Yggdrasil Pokemon protected the balance of the ecosystem, as you might expect a Tree of Life legendary Pokemon to do.

(Zygarde still protects the balance of the land, it's just harder because half of it lives in a cave and the other half are cells. Something clearly happened.)

Then something cataclysmic happened to disrupt the Yggdrasil Pokemon. A Ragnarok, if you will, and the Pokemon was so devastated that it was split into countless cells thrown all over the world, even as far as the distant islands of Alola.

So Zygarde's cells are the cells of the original Yggdrasil Pokemon. Only, like most complex life, there are trillions of them. Zygarde isn't the complete Pokemon. It's much like Kyurem: a part of a fractured Pokemon that isn't around now.

And what would disassociated cells of the Tree of Life do if they were lost and trying to find their form? Well, remember the Tree of Beginning from the movie Lucario and the Mystery of Mew?

Source: Bulbapedia

Well that definitely is a Yggdrasil reference. It's actually made of crystals, much like the Ultimate Weapon/Eternal Flower, and it can spawn ancient Pokemon from its circulatory system, including its own Regis.

This makes sense given the Tree of Life is the origin of all life, all creatures. And it gave me this idea: when these lost disassociated cells try to come together and find a form, they have a memory of all the creatures Yggdrasil created. This is why Zygarde Cells can come together to form a number of different Yggdrasil legends depending on how many cells are recombined.

Perhaps in Pokemon Legends Z-A, our goal will be restore some version of that tree. And to do that, we'll have to find 1000 Zygarde cells throughout Lumiose City. Why 1000? Well, it's only one more collectable than the 999 coins in the Gimmeghoul quest. And like that quest, occasionally we'll find clumps of them: ten here, fifty there, making our quest more bearable.

But more than that, Zygarde does have an attack called Thousand Arrows. Plus, once you do %100, the next cool percentage is %1000.

And once we find 1000 cells, they'll recombine to make Zygarde %1000. Origin Zygarde. Beginning Zygarde. Or just Zygarde-A.

#Pokemon Legends Z-A #Part 2 of the Z-A theories #Pokemon Legends Zygarde #Pokemon Legends Z #Pokemon Legends ZA #Pokemon #Zygarde #Pokemon Legends #Pokemon Legends z a #Pokemon games #gaming #Kalos #Pokemon XY #Pokemon Z #Pokemon XYZ #Gen 6 #Generation 6 #Gen 6 Pokemon #Video games #AZ #Lucario and the Mystery of Mew

[sparklebear11]

Here go see if you can parent a Victorian child

@justlucygraybaird @barbazurebairdtrue

#quiz #meme #Victorian

[midnight-els]

catch me on the BBC Bitesize website looking up physics things for Margo and Sergei to talk about

#the last time I did physics I was 12 and my brain refuses anything past that level okay #els ship a ship that you are capable of writing a conversation about their interests challenge: impossible #anyway more holiday movie fic coming asap #for all mankind

[angiethewitch]

Hi, do you mind if I ask you a question about Welsh?

I'm teaching myself Welsh (with Duolingo mostly) and enjoying it immensely, but the one thing I can't figure out is why the first letter of some words changes. Some specific examples I've noticed are:

Cymru/Gymru

Bwyta/Fwyta

Tafarn/Dafarn

Parti/Barti

Can you possibly shed some light on this for me? Thanks in advance!!

oh sure! theyre called mutations. these articles explain it much better than I can:

Happy learning!

#cymraeg #answers

[covenworm]

all hail bbc bitesize

#covenworm

[justabouttocombust]

I would like to thank BBC Bitesize for always being there for me

#BBC #britain #german #gcse #school

[useoftoysforchildsdevelop]

Unlocking Knowledge: Top Engaging Educational Resources for Successful Home-Based Learning

  Certainly! Successful home-based learning requires access to engaging educational resources that cater to various learning styles and subjects. Here's a list of top resources across different categories:

1. Online Learning Platforms:

a. Khan Academy: Provides free online courses, lessons, and practice in various subjects.

 b. Coursera: Offers courses from universities and colleges around the world on a wide range of topics.

c. edX: Similar to Coursera, with courses from universities and institutions globally.

2. Interactive Learning Websites:

a. Code.org: Teaches coding and computer science in an interactive and engaging way.

b. Duolingo: A fun and gamified platform for learning languages.

c. BBC Bitesize: Offers resources for various subjects, especially useful for UK curriculum.

3. Virtual Museums and Tours:

a. Google Arts & Culture: Virtual tours of museums and historical sites worldwide.

b. Smithsonian Learning Lab: Educational resources and virtual tours from the Smithsonian Institution.

4. Educational YouTube Channels:

a. CrashCourse: Quick, entertaining lessons on various subjects.

b. TED-Ed: Engaging lessons worth sharing on a variety of topics.

c. National Geographic Kids: Educational videos about science, nature, and more.

5. Reading and Literature:

a. Project Gutenberg: Offers over 60,000 free eBooks, including many classic literary works.

b. CommonLit: Provides free reading passages and literacy resources for grades 3-12.

6. Mathematics Resources:

a. IXL: Adaptive learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies.

b. Wolfram Alpha: A computational search engine that helps with mathematics and other subjects.

7. Science and STEM:

a. NASA's STEM Engagement: Educational resources and activities related to space and science.

b. Mystery Science: Free science lessons with hands-on activities.

8. Coding and Computer Science:

a. Scratch: A block-based visual programming language designed for kids.

b. Codecademy: Interactive coding lessons for various programming languages.

9. Homeschooling Resources:

a. Homeschool.com: Offers a variety of resources, curriculum reviews, and support.

b. Time4Learning: Online curriculum for preK-12th grade.

10. Educational Games:

a. Prodigy: A math platform that uses gamification to make learning fun.

b. ABCmouse: Early learning academy for ages 2-8 with a variety of educational games.

11. Art and Creativity:

a. Art for Kids Hub: Provides art lessons for kids on drawing and crafting.

b. TinkerCAD: An online platform for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

12. Podcasts for Learning:

a. Brains On!: Science podcast for kids and curious adults.

b. Stuff You Should Know: Explores a wide range of interesting topics for older learners.

13. Educational Apps:

a. Quizlet: Flashcards and study tools for a variety of subjects.

b. Anki: A powerful flashcard app for learning and memorization.

14. Virtual Learning Communities:

a. Outschool: Offers live online classes for a variety of subjects and age groups.

b. Scholastic Learn at Home: Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.

Remember to tailor these resources based on the age and interests of the learner. Additionally, maintaining a balance between screen time and hands-on activities is crucial for a well-rounded learning experience.

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