Australian Children's Television Foundation
Diving for Cone Snails
Season 3, Cone Snail part 1 Kamil sends Kayne on a mission to find a deadly cone snail and measure the speed of its dart. Before he can do a night dive to find a snail though, Kayne needs to complete a few underwater safety tests....
Australian Children's Television Foundation
How to Catch and Measure a Pygmy Crocodile
Season 3, Pygmy Crocs part 5 A crocodile expert takes Kayne and Kamil on a nighttime adventure to catch a pygmy crocodile. They successfully capture the crocodile and take measurements and tissue samples for research. The expert explains...
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Archimedes’ Principle
Archimedes’ Principle investigates important scientific laws related to buoyancy by analyzing Archimedes’ Principle.
Professor Dave Explains
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
How do we measure the health of an economy? The most common way is by looking at its gross domestic product, or GDP. But what does that mean exactly? Are there any limitations to this approach? What kind of goods are counted towards GDP?...
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Motion Terms and Equations
“Motion Terms and Equations” reviews key vocabulary associated with motion, as well as equations used to calculate the various aspects of motion.
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Amplitude, Frequency, and Wavelength
Amplitude, Frequency, and Wavelength describes amplitude, frequency, and wavelength to explain how they impact a wave's energy.
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Characteristics of a Wave
Characteristics of a Wave explores the characteristics of a wave by defining the terms wave, amplitude, crest, trough, wavelength, and frequency.
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Statistical Measures
A video entitled "Statistical Measures" which explains mean, median, mode, mean absolute deviation, range, and interquartile range.
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Identify Angles
A video entitled "Identify Angles" which discusses the different types of angles and how they can fit together to form other angles.
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Measure of an Angle
This video will discuss examples of converting between radian and degree measure.
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Best Fit
A video entitled "Best fit" which explains how to calculate measures of center and measures of variation and discusses how to determine the value that best represents a data set.
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Estimate: Nonstandard Units
“Estimate: Nonstandard Units” shows how to use nonstandard units to estimate the lengths of household objects.
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Meteorologist
“Meterologist” will discuss weather changes and how patterns in weather can help make weather predictions.
Neuro Transmissions
How The Giant Squid Axon Changed Neuroscience
A lot of techniques and methods used in neuroscience have been developed thanks to modern technology and science. But what did neuroscientists do back in the day before all this fancy stuff? Well, turns out the giant squid axon was...
Organizational Communication Channel
Schutz Inclusion, Control, and Affection in Groups
Schutz's research on the inclusion, control, and affection cycle in groups is a foundational theory for how people meet their needs in groups and teams.
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Measuring Capacity for Kids: Cups, Pints, Quarts, Gallons
Join me as we go on a scavenger hunt around my house to find containers that are measured in cups, pints, quarts, and gallons. This video includes a science experiment, too.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Public Health Surveillance
Public health surveillance is about more than just infectious disease epidemiology. It can include health surveillance on non-communicable disease, health service usage etc. Importantly it is about how health data is collected and...
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Laying Out the Page
This video walks you through the steps of creating a six-panel page layout commonly used in comics.
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Area of Oblique Triangles
A video entitled “Area of Oblique Triangles” which models how to calculate the areas of oblique triangles.
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Classifying Matter
A video entitled “Classifying Matter” which discusses the physical characteristics of matter, including how those characteristics can be used to understand, study, and experiment on all states of matter.
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Measuring Movement
A video entitled “Measuring Movement” which breaks down the study of movement by focusing on the relationship between speed, velocity, and acceleration.
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Rhombus, Square, Rectangle
A video entitled “Rhombus, Square, Rectangle” discusses the attributes of several quadrilaterals, including squares, rhombuses, and rectangles.
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Finding Area Using Arrays
A video entitled “Finding Area Using Arrays” which demonstrates tiling and using arrays to find the area of a rectangle, beginning with repeated addition and moving to multiplication.