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Nobel Prize Lessons – Chemistry Prize 2020
Teacher’s guide This is a teacher’s guide for a Nobel Prize lesson – a complete lesson on the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which is awarded for the discovery of one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. The lesson is planned to take about 45 minutes. (PDF 60K) A Swedish version of…
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Nobel Prize Lessons – Physics Prize 2020
Teacher’s guide This is a step-by-step timetable for the Nobel Prize Lesson – a ready to use lesson on the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes and includes a teacher’s guide, a slide show, a speaker’s manuscript, videos and a student work sheet. A Swedish version…
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Nobel Prize Lessons – Medicine Prize 2020
Teacher’s guide A Swedish version of the lesson is available at This is a step-by-step timetable for the Nobel Prize Lesson – a ready to use lesson on the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes. (PDF 60K) 1. Warm-up (5 min) Ask your students…
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Student Learning Resources: The Fight for Human Rights
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Watch the video about Nobel Prize-awarded peace activists Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan and then answer the questions. Two young women who’d had enough of the violence in Northern Ireland started a peace movement. Ireland became independent of Great Britain in 1922, but in the north of the…
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Student Learning Resources: The Fight for Human Rights
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Watch the video about Nobel Laureates Nelson and Frederik Willem de Klerk and then answer the questions. In 1948, a system of racial segregation and white supremacy known as apartheid was established in South Africa. Apartheid divided up the population according to skin colour – whites at the…
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Photo: Ken Opprann Watch the video on Nobel Prize-awarded human rights activist Malala Yousafzai and then answer the questions. Malala Yousafzai grew up in the Swat Valley of northern Pakistan. When the Taliban took power in the area, they banned girls from going to school, destroyed schools and silenced all dissidents with violence. In…
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Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Watch the video on Nobel Prize-awarded peace negotiator Martti Ahtisaari and then answer the questions. In 1915, Namibia was occupied by neighbouring South Africa. Namibia’s black population was discriminated against by the invaders, and in 1960 they formed the South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO), which strove for…
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Nelson Mandela – Documentary
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An Unfinished Symphony https://youtu.be/VllbifRKR5s “I honestly believe that music can bring people together. Music is a universal language” In this film you get to follow the two South African musicians; Tsepo Pooe, who grew up in Soweto Township; and Lize Schaap, who grew up in wealthy Pretoria. They are both part of a very special…
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Lost and Found https://youtu.be/_hspKngQ-3E “If they lose a child, it is like a double persecution” In the chaos of the world’s largest refugee camp, Kamal Hussein is a beacon of hope. From his small ramshackle hut, and armed only with a microphone, he has taken it upon himself to try and reunite the thousands of…
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