If you love to cycle but are stuck indoors then you need to be handy with some power tools. Okay, assuming you have the power tools and the material you can make your own bike roller – using Ikea rolling pins! – so that you can cycle indoors. There’s a few different YouTube videos to show you how.
Learn about the Constellation in Your Sky
Stellarium Web is an online planetarium running in your web browser based on the open source stellarium web project. Using the desktop, web or mobile version, you can identify the constellation of stars in your sky. The app combines a realistic and accurate night sky simulation with a large amount of online imaging and sky objects catalogs so now you can look up at the sky and identify the stars and planets!
Take a virtual tour of the Giant’s Causeway
According to Wikipedia
The Giant’s Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 and a national nature reserve in 1987 by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland. In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the Giant’s Causeway was named the fourth greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom.
You can take a virtual tour of the Giant’s Causeway courtesy of the National Trust.
Learn Medieval Latin
Latin was the official language of many documents written in England before 1733. This step-by-step beginners’ guide to medieval Latin, created by our experts, will help you gain the necessary skills to read documents from this period.
Identify British bird songs
One of the joys of spring is the burst of bird song it brings, but telling birds apart by sound alone can be tricky for beginners. Start by learning the repertoire of some of the UK’s most familiar songsters and you’ll soon get your ear in.
See Bird song identification: common songs and calls from the Woodland Trust
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Learn Morse Code
Morse Code is a system of communication developed by Samuel F.B. Morse that uses a series of dots and dashes to relay coded messages. Though it was originally devised as a way of communicating over telegraph lines, Morse Code is still used today by amateur radio enthusiasts and is also useful for sending urgent distress signals in emergency situations. While learning Morse Code isn’t particularly difficult, it does require study and dedication like any other language. Once you’ve learned the meaning of the basic signals, you can begin writing and translating messages of your own.
See How to learn Morse Code on WikiHow
Find out about genetics
DNA from the Beginning is organized around key concepts.
The science behind each concept is explained by: animation, image gallery, video interviews, problem, biographies, and links
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Put your Google search skills to the test
Play a Google a day. They ask a question, you search for the answer.
There’s no right way to solve it, but there’s only one right answer
