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Weather vs. Climate
What is weather? How is weather different from climate? Factors such as temperature, thunderstorms, precipitation, and wind speed refer to weather. Climate consists of the overall patterns of weather in a particular region of the...
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Water Fight!
What happens to humans when there is a limited supply of freshwater? This is the focus of a video that discusses the affects on communities of freshwater as a limited resource.
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Severe Weather
What makes severe weather so severe? Very different from regular weather, severe weather is more dangerous and "puts people at risk." This is the focus of a video that explains how severe weather interacts with the biosphere and geosphere.
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Over (To) the Moon
How can an astronaut escape Earth's gravitational pull in order to get to the moon? This is the focus question in a video that discusses the differences in the strengths of Earth's gravitational force and the moon's gravitational force.
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Danger! Falling Objects
The rate at which an object falls to Earth is not completely based upon gravitational pull, but rather the air. This is the focus of a video that explains how air resistance and gravity work together.
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Here Comes the Sun
Get to know Sol with this fast paced, kid-friendly video featuring the closest star to Earth, the sun. Super scientists take part in a quick pop quiz, then learn all about Sol's size, distance, and how it creates and sends energy to Earth.
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The Engineering Process
The process that brought us items, such as the telephone and air conditioner was no easy task. In this upbeat video, scholars gain insight to the steps engineers take to create, design, and build a final product.
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Defining Success
The telephone, refrigerator, and light bulb are all solutions to a problem that an engineer successfully designed. Get to know more about how engineers define success, using this video. The focus goes through a checklist that...
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Defining a Problem
Scholars may think they face big problems, but not like the problems engineers face. During this episode, the first step of the engineering process, define the process, is examined through a hypothetical scenario that...
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Got Some Solutions?
Does a problem only have one solution? This is the driving question of a video that allows pupils to discover that there is more than one way to solve a problem. A demonstration examines the checklist engineers...
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Let's Fly!
Engineers think up multiple solutions to the problems they face, but how do they find the best solution? In this video, examine the process engineers take to discover the most appropriate choice to solve problems, and revisit the...
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A Case of "What-Ifs"
Do your pupils ever get the case of the What-Ifs? If so, maybe they're meant to be an engineer. Engineers are encouraged to ask a lot of hypothetical questions! Find out why and what they do with their answers...
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Engineering Games
Engineering is like a big game! Yes, you read that correctly. In this video, the engineering process is examined with a focus on defining variables, and ways to discover the one variable that affects the outcome of a solution....
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Bowled Over - Isolating Variables
Through a captivating game of bowling and Slingshot Catbot, this video gives future engineers insight into the testing solutions part of the engineering process. It includes setting rules, isolating variables, and checking to see if...
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Try Trials
Future engineers are bowled over with the wealth of information brought to them by this video. The focus is on engineers and the process they take to test solutions by isolating variables with multiple trials.
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Fixing Failure Points
How do engineers find and fix failure points in a solution they're trying to develop? This is the driving question of an informative and entertaining video. Here, future engineers discover why it is important to fail when...
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Succeed by Failing
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This statement has never rung truer than when engineers are testing solutions. Here is an informative video that focuses on the failure point which engineers often face when...
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Designing a Trial
Watch the video to gain insight into an intriguing combination of the engineering process and a game of ring toss. Viewers examine the activity through the eyes of the engineers that first set the criteria for a successful outcome....
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Testing and Trials
What do engineers do if they don't have what they need to make a solution work? They keep on testing! Here is a video that gives individuals insight into the process taken by engineers when they find themselves without the...
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The Robot Challenge
It's every learners' worst nightmare: they drop their phone down a storm drain and can't get it back. Yikes! Here is an informative and entertaining video in which future engineers review the engineering process, and help to...
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Architecture Adventure
A challenge to viewers: create your own personal space where you are free to relax and make as much noise as you want. Challenge accepted! Here is a video that focuses on the architectural side of engineering, as well as the process...
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Let's Build a City
Explore the concept of engineering through urban planning with a video that strives to answer the question, "How can we use engineering to design a city that is safe, healthy, sustainable, and fun to live...
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Solving Limits by Factoring
Videos are a useful instructional tool with versatile application. Here is a video that reviews the process of finding limits for rational expressions with undefined points. It outlines the algebraic method of factoring and...
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Limits at Infinity
Do you need a way to reinforce concepts? This video reviews the rules of finding limits at infinity for rational expressions. For limits that do not exist, it also shows how to determine algebraically whether it approaches positive or...