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Seven Dimensions

Credentials and Technology

Higher Ed
Professor Barbara Etter (Edith Cowan University), police forensic investigator Karl Kent and Sam Norton of Robert Stary Lawyers discuss the challenges posed by evolving technologies when developing and presenting expert...
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Teoría

3rd - 8th
Explicación o modelo que es lógico, predictivo y se puede poner a prueba. <br/<br/>>

Twig - Ciencias generales
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Phenotype

6th - 12th
The observable physical and behavioural characteristics of an organism.
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Glossary Film.
Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig...
Instructional Video0:48
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Allele

6th - 12th
Alternative forms of a gene, which affect the expression of a particular trait, such as eye colour or blood type.
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Glossary Film.
Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning...
Instructional Video1:28
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Factpack: Twins

6th - 12th
Find out how twins can be different, and how this is determined at the time of conception.
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Open a discussion on what has been...
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Functional group

6th - 12th
An atom or group of atoms within a compound that reacts in a characteristic way, giving molecules particular chemical properties.
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Glossary Film.
Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds...
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Evolution - Gradual Species Change

6th - 12th
The gradual change in living forms over successive generations, due to changes in inherited characteristics.
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Glossary Film.
Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images...
Instructional Video0:57
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Theory

6th - 12th
An explanation or model that is logical, testable and predictive.
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A Twig Science
Glossary Film.
Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig Science...
Instructional Video2:27
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What is a Fish?

6th - 12th
Fish are by far the most diverse of all the vertebrate groups. Discover the shared characteristics that make a fish, a fish. Biology - Animal Kingdom - Learning Points. Fish are aquatic vertebrates. Jellyfish, starfish and other marine...
Instructional Video3:00
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What is a Mammal? - Mammal Characteristics

6th - 12th
What is it about the way mammals are born, and reared, that makes them unique in the animal kingdom? Learn the major characteristics that make a mammal, a mammal. Biology - Animal Kingdom - Learning Points. Mammals are warm-blooded...
Instructional Video3:00
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Bizarre Adaptations

6th - 12th
All animals develop specific characteristics in response to their environment, but some adaptations are more weird and wonderful than others. Biology - Adaptation And Evolution - Learning Points. Every animal species on the planet has...
Instructional Video2:57
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Adaptation - Survival Traits

6th - 12th
Examples of physical and behavioural adaptations which allow plants and animals to survive in some of the most challenging habitats on Earth. Biology - Adaptation And Evolution - Learning Points. Animals and plants survive in diverse...
Instructional Video2:48
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Homo Ergaster

6th - 12th
Homo ergaster had a huge brain and lived in complex social groups, but his evolution was stunted for a million years, until he discovered fire. Biology - Adaptation And Evolution - Learning Points. Homo ergaster evolved from homo habilis...
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Venn Diagrams: Global Habitats

6th - 12th
Creating a Venn diagram to reveal the differences and surprising similarities between rainforest and desert environments. Maths - Algebra A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s math films...
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What is a Reptile?

6th - 12th
Discover the five distinct features that unite all reptiles and the characteristics that they share with mammals, birds and fish. Biology - Animal Kingdom - Learning Points. A Twig Curriculum Film. Delivering key learning points. Get...
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Planet Kevin

6th - 12th
In the hunt for new planets, scientists look for stars that wobble. Astronomy student, Kevin, used this science to discover his own planet. Physics - Universe - Learning Points. Planet hunters use powerful telescopes to examine distant...
Instructional Video3:21
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What is a Bird?

6th - 12th
Discover the characteristics common to the 9000 bird species living on Earth today. Biology - Animal Kingdom - Learning Points. A Twig Curriculum Film. Delivering key learning points. Get straight to the facts in just three minutes –...
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Inheritance: Part 2

6th - 12th
If you inherit two copies of every gene, one from each parent, how do your cells know which version to use? Biology - Cells And DNA - Learning Points. Alleles, alternative forms of genes, can be dominant or recessive. Dominant alleles...
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Does it have fur?

K - 5th
In all parts of the world, many very diverse animals have one thing in common.
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Classification is grouping...
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Natural Selection - Survival Process

K - 5th
What is natural selection and how does it work?
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Genes are passed down from both parents t
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Breeding silver foxes

K - 5th
In the 1960s, silver foxes were bred in Siberia as an experiment in behaviour. What did this experiment show?
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Acquired...
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Mudskippers

K - 5th
Meet the very unusual mudskipper fish – it can walk on land!
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Acquired characteristics

K - 5th
You might be born with some characteristics, but there are others that have to be acquired.
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Acquired characteristics...
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Invertebrates

K - 5th
More common than you think ... but what exactly is an invertebrate?
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are animals that have no...