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Educational and fun audiobooks for children and families. A variety of genres await and each podcast comes with podcast specific questions assessing retrieval, sequencing, SPaG, prediction, inference and note taking skills. Ideal as an independent classroom activity, intervention exercise OR homework task.
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Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around The World episode 4
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Episode 4 - Chien-Shiung Wu, Bessie Blount Griffin, Hedy Lamarr and Claudia Jones
Chien-Shiung Wu
There was no school for girls where she lived, so what did her parents do?
What was the Manhattan Project all about?
What did ‘The Wu Experiement’ prove?
Do you think Chien-Shiung Wu should have received a Nobel prize too? Why?
Bessie Blount Griffin
List the different ways Bessie learned to write.
Why did these skills come in useful when working with injured soldiers?
What device did she invent and why do you think some organisations were not interested?
Where did she become known as ‘Mom Bessie’ ?
Hedy Lamarr
What was Hedy’s real first name?
Why did she need to keep her Jewish heritage secret?
Although her wartime invention was not used, it is the basis of which modern technologies?
Which award is the ‘Oscar of Inventing’ ?
Claudia Jones
What is ‘discrimination’ and why might Claudia have been discriminated against?
What does FBI stand for?
Which weekly newspaper did Claudia found?
When was the first Notting Hill Carnival held?
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