![]() The 11 influencing factors we examined in this quantitative study were: the duration of the outdoor lesson, the students’ level of preparation, the students’ opportunity to make choices, the outdoor environment, the position in the lesson sequence, the presence of a laboratory technician, the scientific discipline, the grouping of the students, the teacher’s outdoor teaching experience, the type of activity, and the weather conditions. ![]() ![]() All 26 teachers agreed to plan and carry out five outdoor lessons in their schools’ immediate surroundings for each class they decided to include in the study. The research presented in this paper answers the question: What factors are most related to students’ perception of learning during outdoor science lessons occurring in schools’ immediate surroundings? Twenty-six science teachers, as well as 71 classes of seventh (51 classes) and eighth (20 classes) graders participated in our study (n = 2007). ![]()
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![]() Set during a time of unimaginable wealth and power, murderous sibling rivalries, and cruel despotism, this impressive novel sweeps you away to a historical Hindustan brimming with action and intrigue in an era when, alongside the brutalities of war and oppression, architecture and the art of love and passion reached a pinnacle of perfection. Princess Jahanara, the courageous daughter of the emperor and his wife, recounts their mesmerizing tale, while sharing her own parallel story of forbidden love with the celebrated architect of the Taj Mahal. This monument would soon become known as the Taj Mahal-a sight famous around the world for its beauty and the emotions it symbolizes. Journey to dazzling seventeenth-century Hindustan, where the reigning emperor, consumed with grief over the tragic death of his beloved wife, commissioned the building of a grand mausoleum as a testament to the marvel of their love. ![]() ![]() ![]() Except now he’s a man, and Ox can no longer ignore the song that howls between them. It’s been three years since that fateful day – and the boy is back. The boy chased after the monster with revenge in his blood-red eyes, leaving Ox behind to pick up the pieces. Ox was twenty-three when murder came to town and tore a hole in his head and heart. Ox was seventeen when he found out the boy’s secret, and it painted the world around him in colours of red and orange and violet. Ox found out later the boy hadn’t spoken in almost two years before that day, and that the boy belonged to a family who had moved into the house at the end of the lane. ![]() Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road, the boy who talked and talked and talked. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. Like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket' – V. ![]() ![]() ![]() These women show two faces of war, two bleak faces, and when was the last time you saw that in fiction? Quite often, even when they are brave, their experiences important, war fiction relegates women to the home front, the sidelines, the shadowlands. What works best here is Quinn's juxtaposition of a Nazi war criminal known as Die Jägerin (The Huntress), and a Russian "Night Witch" pilot who considers herself a true huntress - one who stalks prey as part of her very nature. ![]() You'll also see, I hope, that The Huntress reads like the best World War II fiction, stories in which that war means many people had to inhabit gray areas even after it was over. ![]() Kate Quinn's The Huntress runs on a bit too long, but once you've read her Author's Note and understand that many of her characters are based on real people, real people who include the craven and the heroic, you'll understand why Quinn has stuffed her book with plot. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Huntress Author Kate Quinn ![]() ![]() Rackham was born at 210 South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall, London as one of 12 children. ![]() His best-known works also include the illustrations for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. ![]() Rackham's 51 colour pieces for the early American tale Rip Van Winkle became a turning point in the production of books since – through colour-separated printing – it featured the accurate reproduction of colour artwork. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator. He is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. ![]() One of Rackham's illustrations to Das Rheingold, 1910, depicting Fasolt and Fafner seizing FreiaĪrthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Before long she is watching another era of war sweep the country as the devastation from the First World War is still being felt. The story of Maisie Dobbs begins in 1920s Britain as she comes of age. She currently lives in California and visits the United Kingdom regularly. Jacqueline Winspear grew up in England and later worked as a publishing consultant and a marketing communication consultant in the UK before moving to the United States. Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the Maisie Dobbs series. Maisie’s adventures are all based around pre-war England and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s.īefore we jump straight into the list of Maisie Dobbs books in order, let’s learn a little more about author Jacqueline Winspear and Maisie herself. She can’t take on cases that involve her family or those close to her, but she still manages to find herself in the middle of mysteries and murder investigations. Maisie Dobbs is a detective and psychologist who has been practicing for 10 years. If you’re looking for a list of Maisie Dobbs books in order, you’ve come to the right place. ![]() ![]() ![]() We ask all users help us create a welcoming environment by reporting posts/comments that do not follow the subreddit rules. Do not engage in hate speech, harassment, arguing in bad faith, sealioning, or general pot stirring. 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While this is an impressive feat, Shakespeare typically wrote multiple plays in any given year. ![]() Shapiro notes in his book The Year of Lear that, in or around 1606, Shakespeare likely wrote King Lear, along with Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, and Pericles in quick succession - perhaps even within the same calendar year. Related: Coronavirus: Every Event & Convention Cancelled So Farĭr. ![]() It's clear that Shakespeare's plays have influenced and inspired countless writers through the centuries. But did Shakespeare really write King Lear while being quarantined (as said by Roseanne Cash on Twitter)? Did plague affect how he wrote or what he wrote about? Alongside the coronavirus, conversations on social media, as well as articles in The Atlantic and The New York Times, have considered how the plague affected Shakespeare's life and works. ![]() ![]() In his first on-camera interview with Diane Sawyer back in March, the "Mayor of Kingstown" actor revealed he not only remembered the pain of being run over, but was also "awake for every moment" of the ordeal. ![]() In an effort to save him, Renner attempted to step up on the track of the plow in order to stop or divert its path. While exiting the snowplow, the actor discovered the emergency brake system hadn't been applied properly and began to slide towards his nephew who was in the line of direct impact. ![]() ![]() Jeremy Renner Shares Fake Cameo He Got from Paul Rudd After Snowplow InjuryĪccording to the Washoe County Sheriff's Department, on January 1, the "Hawkeye" star was airlifted to a nearby hospital after he was injured clearing snowfall following a severe storm at his home in the Mt. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dent and Sons, asks Noel to write a children's story about the theatre, which led to Noel completing Ballet Shoes in mid-1936. Early in 1936, Mabel Carey, children's editor of J. In June 1932, she was elected to membership of PEN. In 1930, she began writing her first adult novel, The Whicharts, published in 1931. ![]() At the end of the war in January 1919, Noel enrolled at the Academy of Dramatic Art (later Royal Academy) in London. When things took a turn for the worse on the Front in 1916 she moved to London and obtained a job making munitions in Woolwich Arsenal. As an adult, she began theater work, and spent approximately 10 years in the theater.ĭuring the Great War, in 1915 Noel worked first as a volunteer in a soldier's hospital kitchen near Eastbourne Vicarage and later produced two plays with her sister Ruth. ![]() ![]() Sister Ruth was the oldest, after Noel came Barbara, William ('Bill'), Joyce (who died of TB prior to her second birthday) and Richenda. She was born on Christmas Eve, 1895, the daughter of William Champion Streatfeild and Janet Venn and the second of six children to be born to the couple. Mary Noel Streatfeild, known as Noel Streatfeild, was an author best known and loved for her children's books, including Ballet Shoes and Circus Shoes. ![]() |