Year 12 “Thinking Harder”All Subjects

Week 4: 27 Apr – 1 May

CRUNCH ITReduce the extract to the five most significant words and

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https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/apr/20/fears-of-flood-as-uks-covid-19-furlough-scheme-opens

Research further – Can you find additional research on demand-side policies the government has put in place to counteract the fall in AD from the Coronavirus?

DEBATE ITShould the government be spending money it does not have in order to manage AD in the

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ConclusionsWhat are the most effective ways for the government to intervene in the economy to minimise the long-term impact

of the lock-down?

Link itList topic areas to the specification:

Year 12 Economics ”Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27 April – 1 May

PREDICT IT Looking at the diagrams, what is this extract about? What themes might it cover?

REWORD ITRead the source and highlight any words you are unsure of. Use Power Thesaurus to help

you understand them.

LINK ITThink how the Chemistry in this article could be linked to science you have learnt. What synoptic

questions could they ask?

CRUNCH ITSkim read the source and identify six chemistry

terms you need to understand

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DEFINE ITWhat the difference between n-type and p-

type silicon?

EXPLAIN IT1. Write the electron configurations of arsenic

and boron

2. What shape would you expect around each Silicon? Why? State the bond angle?

3. Why is silicon described as a semi-metal?

4. Draw a circuit diagram for a solar cell

Chemistry Extract: The solar cell Week 4 : 27th -1st

May

List all the parts of this set design that are linked closely to the plot of Hedda Gabler:

Overall task – Set Design for Hedda Gabler

Set Design Questions to ask yourself:

• How is this set design reflecting the themes of the play?

• Is this a suitable design for a play set in 1891? Why?/Not?

What are the elementsof set design?

Final Thoughts

What do you like about this design?What opportunities has this set design missed?

Year 12 Drama “Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27 April – 1 May

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Link to article - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48510235

Research further – Can you find additional data relating to the business/industry?

DEBATE ITCan you think of any

arguments against the article? Can you think of any other

factors that should be considered?

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ConclusionsHas the article changed your opinion about the business/industry? Have you learnt anything new? Has

it improved your understanding? Do you have any questions after reading the article?

Link itList topic areas to the specification:

Business Studies ”Thinking Harder” Week 4

CRUNCH ITReduce the extract to the ten most

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Italian Reference -http://italianoperstranieri.loescher.it/

Italiani all’estero

Watch the video and download worksheet.

Open the following link:

https://italianoperstranieri.loescher.it/video-italiani-all-estero-28b229.n5080

DEBATE ITCULTURAL COMPARISON

• What cultural differences are there between Italians and British abroad?1 2

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CONCLUSIONHave you learnt anything new about Italian culture? Has it improved your understanding?

Do you have any questions?

FIND ITFind sentences/keywords which

explain:

1) One fact about Italians abroad

2) 2 interesting facts

3) Why “ERICA” left Italy?

Year 12 PHYSICS Think Harder

Week 427-01 May

PREDICT IT – Reading only the title, what is this extract about? What themes might it cover?

Extract: SputnikSUMMARISE IT

In your own words, write 5 full bullet points summarising the article

CHALLENGE

Can you show a calculation to confirm the height of a satellite in

a geosynchronous orbit around Earth? (End of blue box page 26)

FIND ITWhich formulae in this article have you already been introduced to in your Physics A-level?

Who was the first person to suggest an artificial satellite around Earth was possible? When did they do this?

Who were the first people to achieve a successful satellite launch?

Who else benefitted from this success?

CRUNCH ITReduce the extract to the five most significant words or words you don’t

know and define them

Explain the overall ideas presented in the extract

Extract: The Help Unseen prose task

DEBATE IT

‘As a white author, it is wrong for Stockett to take on the voice of black characters.’

What are your views on this statement? She writes from the point of view of various black

characters and one white character in the book.

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Find itHow does the extract relate to

its setting of the 1960s?

Year 12 Literature ”Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27th April

Conclusions

What ideas do you have about the significance of discrimination in the extract?

CRUNCH ITReduce the extract to the five most significant words and define them

Overall summary -

DEBATE ITWhich elements of the argument do you find less convincing/over

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ConclusionsHas the article changed your opinion? Have you learnt anything new? Has it improved your understanding?

Do you have any questions after reading the article?

Find itPick out the 5 key points from this

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Year 12 Biology ”Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27th April – 1st May

Extract - Bacteria found to eat PET plastics could help do the recycling

Nature has beaten us to it again. It has taken just 70 years for evolution to throw up a bacterium capable of breaking down and consuming PET, one of the world’s most problematic plastic pollutants.Japanese researchers discovered and named the species, Ideonella sakaiensis, by analysing microbes living on debris of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastics they collected from soil and wastewater.The bacterium seems to feed exclusively on PET and breaks it down using just two enzymes. It must have evolved the capability to do this because the plastics were only invented in the 1940s.The team hopes the discovery will lead to new ways of breaking down plastic, using either the bacteria themselves, or the two enzymes they use for the job.New ways of breaking down PET are sorely needed – vast quantities of discards clog up landfill sites and natural environments around the world. In 2013, 56 million tonnes of PET were manufactured – about a quarter of all plastics produced that year – but only 2.2 million tonnes were recycled, the team says.“Large quantities of PET have accumulated in environments across the globe,” says Kohei Oda of Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan, whose team made the discovery. “So, to solve this problem, microbes that break it down could be useful.”Slow and steadySo how do the bacteria do it? They link to the PET with tendril-like threads. They then use two enzymes sequentially to break down PET into terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol, the two substances from which it is manufactured and that are not harmful to the environment.The bacteria then digest both substances. This could mean they would be useful for getting rid of polluting plastics in the environment.Their ability to reconstitute the starting materials also lends them to recycling strategies. But the process takes a long time – about 6 weeks at 30°C to fully degrade a thumb-nail-sized piece of PET.“We have to improve the bacterium to make it more powerful, and genetic engineering might be applicable here,” says Oda, whose team is already experimenting with this.One way of speeding things up would be to transfer the genes that make the two enzymes into a faster growing bacterium like Escherichia coli, says Uwe Bornscheuer of Greifswald University in Germany.Given that E.coli secretes the first breakdown product -terephthalic acid – instead of consuming it, this would also make it more practical prospect for recycling, he says.Bornscheuer says it’s encouraging that nature has evolved a natural consumer of PET, just 70 years after the plastic began accumulating in the environment. So far, only a few fungal species have been reported to biodegrade PET.“I’m sure we’ll find more microbes in nature that have evolved to degrade other plastics,” he says. “It’s just a matter of searching properly and having patience like the Japanese group to narrow the search down to a single bacterium.”

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2080279-bacteria-found-to-eat-pet-plastics-could-help-do-the-recycling/#ixzz6KRQofVno

Title:

Overall conclusion from this article:

Extract:

See Showbie article:“The Psychology of Fake news”

Find your own example of a fake news article online, read

it and briefly summarise it

ConclusionsHas the article changed your

opinion? Have you learnt anything new? Has it improved

your understanding? Do you have any questions after reading the

article?

Key Research from the article and what it supports

Year 12 Psychology ”Thinking Harder” Week 4: w/c 27th April

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Title: Did Jesus think he was God?

Extracts: what are the main AO1 points?

What are the AO2 points made?

Watch the clips from the following scholars and summarise them into the boxes to the left:

Dale Martin:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZDakWQq2n0

William Lane Craig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQDov6NNp0

N. T. Wrighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxeZp0goEZI

Bart Erhmannhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07sgUqjKflE

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Rank the 4 scholars in order of convincingness: Justify your reasoning for the top spot.

Year 12 Philosophy & Ethics ”Thinking Harder- Did Jesus think he was God? Week 4: 27 April- 1 May

YEAR 12 SPANISH THINKING HARD – ‘La guitarra, imprescindible en el flamenco’Reference – https://los40.com/los40/2019/04/09/musica/1554833773_496682.html

SUMMARISE - Write a maximum of 5 sentences in Spanish to summarise the article. Where possible, try to use your own words.

KEY FACTSAre there any numbers/facts

which would be worth remembering in future?

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LINK ITHow does this link to your

knowledge?

FIND ITLook up at least 5 words you weren’t

sure of and write in Spanish and English below.

CRUNCH ITReduce the extract to the ten

most significant words.

CONCLUDEHave you learnt anything new about Hispanic culture/life?

Has it improved your understanding? Do you have any questions after reading the article?

CRUNCH ITReduce the extract to the ten most

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Provenance -

Conclusions- DEBATE ITHow significant a factor will

coronavirus be in the outcome of the 2020 election? Try to

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RESEARCH ITWhat happened in the 1932

election, which occurred in the midst of the Great Depression?

Find itFind sentences/keywords which:

• Explain the impact of coronavirus on the election campaign

Year 12 Politics ”Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27-1 May

Who are the main characters?

Imagine you work for a film company as a film director. You have been asked to create your own genre film e.g. comedy, horror, action, film noir, hybrid of both ‘thriller/sci-fi! Use your imaginations and think outside the box! This is a starting point for year 13 coursework and this idea could be used for it! Create the opening scene to your film idea!

What will happen in the opening scene of your film?

An opening to establish the characters? Establish the settings and relationships? What conventions will you need for your genre? Will you subvert the conventions of the genre?

Build up the story? What starts to get complicated straight away?

Will it start in the middle of the action? What drama / conflict will happen?

Do some further reading online: Here are some the links! Find some of your own to add?

https://learnaboutfilm.com/making-a-film/

Picture it!

What are the settings / locations of your film? List them. Are there any you know in the local area?

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Film Style

Describe the lighting style you want?

Describe the colours you want?

Describe the camera shots / angles you want?

Describe the editing style you want?

Describe the sound you want?

Describe it!Write a sentence to describe each

character

Year 12 Btec Media ”Thinking Harder about creating your own film idea” Week 3: 27th – 1st May

Year 12 Geography ”Thinking Harder” Week 4 27th April – 1st May

Read the articles below and fill in the Geography specific ‘Thinking Harder’ sheet (on Showbie, seen on the right)

1. Read the article called ‘the geography of coastal sanddunes’ that can be found in the additional reading folder on Showbie. Complete the ‘Thinking Hard’ sheet.

2. Read the article called ‘Migrants’ that can be found in the additional reading folder on Showbie. Complete the ‘Thinking Hard’ sheet

CRUNCH ITReduce the short story to the ten most

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‘Briar Road’ – preparation for creative writing coursework

Read this short story.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/15/short-story-briar-road-by-jonathan-buckleyOr

DEBATE ITIn what way is this a successful short story? What are the most

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Tasks:What three things can you take from this short story to take into your

own writing? Be detailed and specific in your response.Using this as a model write the opening line and closing line of a short

story

Find and revise:Identify methods used to entertain an

audienceUse of adjectives, adverbs etc.

Narrative voiceVariety of sentence structures

Use of tone

Year 12 English Language ”Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27th April to 1st May

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Reference -

Conclusions/Further Research - DEBATE ITWhy was the Vietnam War to blame for being George Romney’s downfall?

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LINK ITHow does this link to your

knowledge?

Find itFind sentences/keywords which show

Romney’s position on Vietnam.

Year 12 History ”Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27th-1st May

French Reference – (link to chosen article)

SUMMARISE - Write a maximum of 5 sentences in French to summarise the article. Where possible, try to use your own words.

KEY FACTSAre there any numbers/facts

which would be worth remembering in future?

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LINK ITHow does this link to your

knowledge?

FIND ITLook up at least 5 words you weren’t sure of at write in French and English

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CONCLUDEHave you learnt anything new about Francophone culture/life? Has it

improved your understanding? Do you have any questions after reading the article?

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Title – Imagineering In a Box | Creating Worlds | Lesson 2.10 - Models

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Disneyland?

What are the difference between using physical models and using digital

models?

Year 12 DT ”Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27 – 2 May

Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnrQ6tSdbg&feature=youtu.be

Use the video summary below to complete the thinking harder tasks.

Many Imagineers from different disciplines come together to design an attraction, so we often create models when we are working on our ride. Once a model is built, it’s used to analyse aspects of the ride long before we pour any cement. Models allow everyone to get a visual and tactile sense of how a ride will look when built at full scale. Some of the models are physical and some are digital. Digital models are great ways to simulate the dynamic motions of a ride experience. They allow us to make quick changes without having to worry about construction concerns just yet. It’s important to keep in mind that the goal of model building isn’t to make something beautiful and absolutely perfect. Instead, models are meant to communicate your creative vision as well as the spatial layout of the attraction.

Modelling is a key component to our design process because it’s cheaper to modify a model built out of foam that it is to change steel and concrete. It also allows us to make decisions much earlier in the design process than we otherwise would be able to, because you can see it in physical space and get a better understanding for what this attraction is going to be and how it’s going to look from different angles.

It’s the way that everybody can stand around the table and look at the same thing at the same time. You have an idea in your head, it’s only in your head and no one else can see it. You may be able to sketch something out, but even sketching it out only gives you one view in one perspective of one part of it. When you actually build a model, that brings something into three dimensions and lets you get down into it and look really low, and sort of walk around what’s behind that ‘thing’. You can tell those things when you’re looking at a physical model. Different disciplines meet together and negotiate on where things would sit. They often say, ‘Oh I understand what you’re doing now.’

We build both physical and digital models and digital models work hand in hand because they give us a type of information that we may not be able to get from physical models. We’re looking at more real world information, we’re using real scale, we’re using real buildings, so what we get from a digital model is the ability to, in virtual reality, actually ride the attraction through a headset so that we are actually getting the attraction experience before it’s built.

What is the process of model building?We build lots of different types of models and they all serve a different purpose. You may do a quick model where it’s just a massing study and it’s just made of white blocks and that’s it. You want to see how big it is relative to something next to it, how much space it takes up etc. We’re literally taking cardboard and paper and putting something together to understand spatially what the early concept or idea is and then we’ll go to more sophisticated models as the design develops even more and we’ll sculpt foam and make something that more sturdy and more detailed.

You may go all the way to what we call a show model which is a highly detailed perfectly painted, full-colour model that will look exactly like when you’re finished. This serves a different purpose, maybe to do a colour or lighting study or to understand the context relevant to something near by and everything in between. We do lots of different sizes and scales. We try and make something rough and small first, we refine it, iterate it, scale it up until we have something that’s relatively big scale and highly detailed so much so that it can actually be taken to the site where we’re building the attraction and used as a physical reference for what rock work and scene elements should look like in the real world.

Do you have advice for model building?It’s important to remember that a model is a tool, you’re not making a model to show off your model making skills. You’re making a model because it helps influence your design and problem solve parts of your design. When you’re making a model, it’s a thing that changes constantly because as you’re making it you realise something doesn’t work and you have to change it. Don’t be afraid or married to an idea, be willing to trash the model and start over when you need to. Don’t spend to much time on one particular area of your model. I would say it’s best practice to roughen ideas, work really quick and then start to go in and refine those ideas. Start with the parts that are easiest first but the goal is to get all the parts finished.

DEBATE ITConsider both for and against, giving

relevant examples to back points made:

‘Making prototypes is a waste of materials & money.’

LINK ITHow does this link to your knowledge from

studying DT?

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Overall argument – What Pop can teacher classical…

Extract –Read the following article:

DEBATE IT• Do you agree with what the

article has presented? What opinions do you have on this matter? Do you feel classic music still holds relevance in todays musical landscape?

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Do you have any questions after reading the article?

Find itFind sentences/keywords which:

Year 12 Music ”Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27 – 1 May

https://www.cmuse.org/is-classical-music-still-relevant-today-answered/

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Overall argument – Using the link below. Explore the conflict between the BBC and the government

Extracthttps://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2020/feb/16/this-government-threatens-the-principle-at-the-heart-of-the-bbc

1.What key points are made?2.What evidence of bias is there?

DEBATE ITWhich elements of the argument do you find less convincing/over exaggerated based on what you

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ConclusionsHas the article changed your opinion? Have you learnt anything new? Has it improved your understanding? Do

you have any questions after reading the article?

Find itFind sentences/keywords which:

Year 12 A level Media ”Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27 – 1st May

Screen shot your favourite close up techniques and put them here… CRUNCH IT

Describe the surface textures you have seen using artistic and technical words

and adjectives.

Using ‘Google Arts and Culture’ app or going to the website https://artsandculture.google.com/ click onto ‘12 Artworks you’ll love to zoom into’. Look ate ach piece and choose your favourite zoomed in techniques. option

Could you create any of these techniques using other

techniques and methods? Be creative!

LINK ITCan any of these techniques link to your own work? If they don’t do you have any ideas of using

them in the future?

Find out how your favourite techniques were created.

Describe the process or find a you tube video and put the link here.

KS 4 and 5 Art & Photography ”Think Harder” Get up close to famous art work Week 4: 27th-1st May

Vincent Van Gogh – The Starry Night

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Extract –See attached article on the link below:https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2018/nov/03/women-sports-pages-girls-play-losing-battle

A mother runs through the park pushing a baby in a buggy, chatting away as she does: “Come on, baby, not far now.” Then we see a young woman learning to swim, one exercising in an outdoor gym, another hula-hooping in the kitchen, a group of friends on a trampoline. The images come thick and fast: black, white, pony-tailed, hijabed, older, younger, somewhere in the middle, to the glorious strains of Barbra Streisand belting out Don’t Rain on My Parade.Do you notice any wrinkles, any dimples in their thighs? Hell, no! And if you do –this ain’t for you. This is for all those many women out there who avoid exercise because of that very fear, the fear of being judged.The film is part of the latest phase of Sport England’s game-changing This Girl Can campaign, an attempt to close the gender gap between the number of men and women who are physically active. You might remember the first ad screened during Coronation Street on a Monday night in January 2015, to the soundtrack of Missy Elliot’s Get Ur Freak On and then shown in cinemas and online, with accompanying billboard ads: “I kick balls. Deal with it”, and “Hot and not bothered”.There was something moving about watching normal women of all shapes and sizes exercise and have fun, get sweaty and look knackered. Why? Because it was so rare to see in the media, let alone in such a joyful way. I had a quiet weep when I first watched it and I wasn’t alone.Jennie Price, the multi-award-winning outgoing chief executive of Sport England and the brains behind This Girl Can, cried, too. “And I never cry.” It was then that Price knew that she might have something special on her hands.

DEBATE ITWhich elements of the argument do you find less convincing/over exaggerated based on what you

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Do you have any questions after reading the article?

Find itFind 10 key sentences which you think

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Year 12 A-level PE ”Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27 Apr – 1 May

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Title: Energy Systems

Overall conclusion from this article:

Extract:Energy System 1: Anaerobic – Phosphocreatine (PCr) SystemThe first phase is called the ATP- CPr (Adenosine Triphosphate)- (Phosphocreatine) system. ATP is stored in all cells, particularly muscles. It is the only system that doesn’t require a blood supply and has no by products.There are not many steps in the chemical reactions that make up the ATP-PCr system. The reactions can take place in the absence of oxygen and phosphocreatine is a relatively high energy molecule. As a result, the ATP-PCr system can provide a lot of energy quickly but only for immediate and short (10s) maximum intensity efforts.In a sense, it is free energy because the body stores ATP to make it available for immediate use, however, you can only use it once and it needs recovery time to restore the storage. Once you have depleted you Phosphocreatine stores in a sprint it can take as long as 4 minutes to restore them to their resting levels, ready to sprint again. Making it a high rate – low capacity system.

Energy System 2: Anaerobic – Lactic Acid System (LA)The next major phase is called the Lactic (LA) system. After the 20 seconds of the ATP-PCr system, the body requires another ingredient– muscle glycogen (glucose) to be added to continue.This system breaks down carbohydrate, a fuel in limited supply in the body, to produce medium amounts of power for medium amounts of time. The energy is produced without oxygen using carbohydrate > sugar > glucose > glycogen > ATP.

The body’s stores around 500 grams worth of carbohydrate in the tissues of the liver and muscles in the form of glycogen. This amount of energy would fuel approximately 2000 Kilojoules of mechanical work on the bike, as recorded by a power meter.Regardless of how long an effort is, carbohydrate is always initially broken down through a chemical reaction called anaerobic glycolysis. Oxygen is not required for this reaction and whilst only about 5% (2 ATP molecules) of the energy potential of a glucose molecule can be realised the energy is liberated quickly, so this energy system is well suited to high intensity efforts greater than 10 seconds to 2 minutes.

Because anaerobic glycolysis can only supply short efforts, it only makes a small dent in the 2000 Kilojoules of stored carbohydrate available, so the time limitation is related to the chemical processes involved in anaerobic metabolism and their interaction with the body, rather than a lack of availability of carbohydrate.Its by-product, lactic acid, comes from the breakdown of the glucose released from the muscles. Most cyclists have heard of lactate or lactic acid. Lactate is not a waste product but is actually an important part of anaerobic and aerobic metabolism.During high intensity efforts lactate is produced in greater amounts than can be removed and contrary to popular belief, fatigue may not simply be the result of lactic acid accumulation – there is a lot of misunderstanding around this molecule. For one, lactate does not cause muscle soreness. Another, fatigue from exercise is not due simply to lactate accumulation.Energy System 3: Oxidative (Aerobic) SystemThe first or third system is the Oxidative phase. In this phase, as the term indicates you are using oxygen to fuel the breakdown of carbohydrates first, free fatty acids second and if the exercise continues long enough -protein. Whereas, the previous systems have related to higher intensity work (or power) the aerobic system is more for moderate or low intensity work, but of longer duration.

It can draw on your stores of glucose but only for ~90 minutes at max. This is why you need to replenish your glucose stores with CHO during your ride.

The oxidative system should be developed to aid in the lactic system. The development of the aerobic system aids in lactate removal so that you can tolerate more lactate.

It is only able to produce a relatively small amount of energy, so cannot produce enough energy for any sprinting, but can produce power for extended periods of time, making it the predominant system used during any endurance ride.

Debate it:Which energy system do you think is your most developed and why?

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Research itWhat is the process of breaking down fat into acetyl Co-A called?

Year 12 BTEC PE ”Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27 Apr – 1 May

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Reference – Read and watch the article about how Blade Runner created a new genrehttps://nofilmschool.com/2017/09/blade-runner-lessons-screenplay

What conclusions can you make about the article? Write bullet points.

Do some further reading and watching online: Here are some links! Find some of your own to add?

Structuralism and Semiotics: WTF? Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes and Structuralism Explained -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkDb9Nt1EBQ

https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/exploring-movie-construction-and-production/chapter/2-what-is-genre-and-how-is-it-determined/

ASSESS ITWhich parts of the article did you already know / not know?

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LINK ITHow does this article link to your knowledge?

Find itFind sentences/keywords which:

• Show the main conventions of the Film Noir genre.

• Show how Blade Runner adopted Film Noir conventions

Year 12 Film ”Thinking Harder” Week 4 : 27 April – 1 May

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Overall idea -

Extract – TechnologyWhat computing technology is

discussed in this article?

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Do you have any questions after reading the article?

List itList the terms that are unsure about.

Year 12 Computing ”Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27-1 April/May

Gnome sort (dubbed stupid sort) is a sorting algorithm originally proposed by an Iranian computer scientist Hamid Sarbazi-Azad (professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Sharif University of Technology) in 2000. The sort was first called stupid sort (not to be confused with bogosort), and then later described by Dick Grune and named gnome sort.

The gnome sort is a sorting algorithm which is similar to insertion sort in that it works with one item at a time but gets the item to the proper place by a series of swaps, similar to a bubble sort. It is conceptually simple, requiring no nested loops. The average running time is O(n2) but tends towards O(n) if the list is initially almost sorted.

The algorithm finds the first place where two adjacent elements are in the wrong order and swaps them. It takes advantage of the fact that performing a swap can introduce a new out-of-order adjacent pair next to the previously swapped elements. It does not assume that elements forward of the current position are sorted, so it only needs to check the position directly previous to the swapped elements.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome_sort

CRUNCH ITReduce the extract to the five most significant words and define them

Argument: If Nationality Identity is declining, does it matter?

Extract - The growth of supra-national organizations, of which the European Union is a key example, is said to have undermined nation-states and national identity. Similarly, multi-national corporations act on a global stage, not a national one, and the days when large companies had distinctive national images are mostly gone. Furthermore, as most capitalist societies continue to reduce state welfare and privatize state functions (such as now, in Britain, is proposed for the Royal Mail), the idea that people viewed the state as “for them” and for their security has lost power. All these things, and the continued migration of workers, are believed to weaken national identity. Hence many European states appear to be suffering crises of national identity. How much this is happening in Britain is disputed1; but assuming it is happening in some measure there is another question to ask: does it matter?

The evidence of political voices on the right in the case of Britain certainly suggests that it does2. Try typing “national identity” into a search box on the Daily Mail online and you will see what I mean. There is a portion of the population that is outraged at the erosion of national identity and angry about the European Union intruding on British prerogatives. They believe that what they call “mass immigration” has endangered a sense of nationhood that has been nurtured over centuries. Newspapers frequently give reports of assaults on Britishness or Englishness, for example “political correctness” about Christmas, multicultural teaching in schools, or the failure to celebrate St. George’s day. As a rough speculative assessment, I would think that some 30-40% of the population in Britain share some or all of these views. In opinion polls the percentages saying that we should do more to control immigration and even repatriate immigrants are pretty high. One possibility is that if a celebrated and taken-for-granted national identity has been lost, it has been replaced in England by a rather resentful and narrow perspective.

There are alternatives of which we might consider two: the first is a multicultural inclusiveness which at the same time leaves space for traditional Britishness (or Englishness); the second is an individualistic acceptance that national identity is no longer really important and, indeed, is an impediment to broader universalistic values.

DEBATE ITWhich elements of the argument do

you agree with? Do you think National identity is important? Which perspectives could you apply to both

sides of the arguments?

APPLY ITHow does this article link to the what

we have been studying? What studies do we have to support this argument?

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CONCLUSIONS What are your beliefs about national identity? Has the article changed your opinion? Have you learnt anything new? Has it improved your understanding?

Do you have any questions after reading the article?

Year 12 Sociology “Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27 – 1 May

CRUNCH ITReduce the extract to the ten most

significant words

Article: BBC News: Coronavirus: Why hanging on to a ticket could save your favourite festivalhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-52227665

1. Who are the AIF and who do they represent?

2. List 4 events that the AIF represent that are still due to place this year?

3. What costs will festivals of all sizes had to pay out already before actually hosting the event?

4. How many people went to festivals in the UK in 2018 and what does the Live sector contribute to the UK economy?

5. Explain in your own words the impact on smaller festivals if ticket buyers ask for refunds instead of ‘rolling over’ their tickets to next year?

DEBATE ITThe Government should be doing more to help the Events sector of the economy?

Why was the Boardmasters event in Cornwall cancelled last year, 2019?

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-

entertainment/music/news/boardmasters-cancelled-cornwall-weather-warning-lineup-camping-refunds-

latest-a9044651.html

What impact did this cancellation have on the Cornish economy?

What if it has to be cancelled 2 years in a row?

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LINK ITHow does this link to your broader travel and tourism

knowledge and understanding of the impacts of the Corona virus

on the T&T industry?

Year 12 BTEC Travel and Tourism ”Thinking Harder” Week 4: 27 Apr – 01 May