Gresham College
Oil on Troubled Water: The Industrial Legacy and Britain's Groundwater - Professor Carolyn Roberts
Britain’s Groundwater is amongst its most precious and most threatened resources. Professor Roberts explains: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/oil-on-troubled-waters-the-industrial-legacy-and-britains-groundwater Groundwater...
Royal Opera House
Romeo and Juliet - extract from the Balcony pas de deux (The Royal Ballet)
Federico Bonelli as Romeo and Lauren Cuthbertson as Juliet perform the Balcony pas de deux in Kenneth MacMillan's Royal Ballet production of Romeo and Juliet. Find out more:...
Tate
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov – ‘The Viewer is the Same as the Artist’ | TateShots
The Kabakovs are widely known for their large-scale installations and wide range of paintings and sculptures which draw upon the visual culture and symbolism of the former Soviet Union. From dreary communal apartments to propaganda art...
Royal Opera House
Behind the scenes during preparations for Romeo and Juliet (The Royal Ballet)
Dominic Peckham gets a tour of the Royal Opera House to find out how The Royal Ballet prepare for Romeo and Juliet. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/romeo Kenneth MacMillan poignant setting of Sergey Prokofiev’s classic score draws...
Curated OER
What is a Scale Drawing?
Scale drawings are an easy and plausible way to represent large things, such as roads and buildings, on paper. This tutorial explains what a scale drawing is and uses the example of a house to demonstrate how a scale drawing works. It...
Curated OER
What is a Scale Drawing?
Scale drawings are an easy and plausible way to represent large things, such as roads and buildings, on paper. This tutorial explains what a scale drawing is and uses the example of a house to demonstrate how a scale drawing works. It...
Curated OER
Scale of Solar System
After the previous video in this series, class members should have a general grasp of the relatives sizes of the earth and sun. This video talks further about distances between the planets and gives a sense of their and other main...
Curated OER
Logarithmic Scale
In this thought-provoking video, Sal shows how a typical linear scale is different than a logarithmic scale. He plots numbers on both scales and compares them to show why the logarithmic scale is useful. This video gives a nice intuitive...
Curated OER
How Do You Solve a Scale Model Problem Using a Scale Factor?
Scale drawings are used to represent many things. Scales are used all the time on maps, and in architectural drawings. Watch this video as the instructor illustrates a simple drawing of a blueprint to represent the footage of an actual...
MinutePhysics
Where Was The Big Bang?
If you think the world revolves around you, think again! In this super-short clip, the narrator explains, accompanied by drawings, how scaling varies based on your frame of reference or vantage point. You might want to add this clip to...
Veritasium
How Far Away is the Moon? (The Scale of the Universe)
Is the moon relatively close? Relatively far away? Examine some images of Earth and the moon together ... and answers will vary. The narrator examines the problem of scale in an eye-opening video. He uses a basketball and a tennis ball...
Corbett Maths
Loci Part 3
How do you use a scale drawing to find the region in a lake where a treasure is located? The narrator of a short video problem identifies three criteria to determine the location of the treasure. Using a compass and ruler, he determines...
TED-Ed
How Long Will Human Impacts Last?
If aliens visit Earth a million years from now, what will they find? Explore the Anthropocene epoch with a hard-hitting video. Viewers examine the changes humankind has made to the planet, how these overshadow events of the past, and...
Math Antics
Proportions
Equivalent ratios lead to proportions. The video provides the definition of a proportion and provides examples of proportions. Using real-world examples, the resource shows how to solve for unknown quantities in proportions using the...
Crash Course
Mathematical Thinking: Crash Course Statistics #2
What is the probability that someone will draw the same lottery numbers two times in a row? Very small, but it can—and has—happened! Statisticians often work with very large or small numbers. The second lesson in a statistics playlist...
Curated OER
Scale of the Galaxy
The fourth of five videos deals with the scale and the relative distances between planet, stars, and other galactic bodies.
PBS
Graffiti Art: Supplies
Just how much spray paint does a mural require? Using proportions, graffiti artists determine the amount of supplies needed to complete a mural. The creative resource shows how to determine the area of composite figures and uses that...
Corbett Maths
Enlargements Using Ray Method
Figure out what to do when there is no grid to count. Using a ruler and a sharp pencil, the narrator shows how to perform a dilation when the figure is not on a grid. The ray method works by drawing a ray from the center of dilation...
Mathed Up!
Probability
How likely is it to draw a blue marble? Pupils find the likelihood of events and connect that to the probability of the event. They find the probabilities of simple events and show their probabilities on a scale.
PBS
Real-Life Math | Woodworker
Woodworking is math-intensive work. Viewing a video of a woodworker explaining how he applies math in his craft sets the stage for a crafty lesson. Pupils use ratios and proportions to create scale drawings of objects.
Bozeman Science
Graphing Data By Hand
We have calculators, so why do we have to do this by hand? The video takes viewers through graphing scientific data by hand to create a scatter plot. The process includes labeling axes, writing an appropriate title, determining a scale,...
Domain of Science
The Map of Chemistry
Many people study for years to understand even a subsection of chemistry, yet an informative video attempts to cover all of chemistry in 12 minutes. It starts with atoms and elements and moves through bonding, reactions, energy, and...
Crash Course
The Big Bang: Crash Course Big History #1
Theoretical physicists say that space and time are one thing created by the Big Bang. According to them, nothing happened in the time before the Big Bang because time did not exist. The first Crash Course-Big History video in a 16-part...
Socratica
Chemistry: What Is a Covalent Bond? (Polar and Nonpolar)
When it comes to covalent bonding, sharing is caring! As part of the Socratica chemistry playlist, a useful video explains the definition of covalent bonding. Then, it works through examples of single bonding, double bonding, polar...