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Mit: Blossoms: The Quadratic Equation: It's Hip to Be Squared
An interactive video lesson where students learn to manipulate quadratic equations.
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Mit: Blossoms: Connection Between Water Desalination & Making Pickles
A video lesson combined with student group work about the desalination of seawater in areas where there is little access to freshwater.
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Mit: Blossoms: The Construction of Proteins
Students investigate the relationship between proteins and amino acids digested in the small intestine while examining overall cell structure and function.
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Mit: Blossoms: Recognizing Chemical Reactions
An interactive video lesson where students first determine misconceptions about what happens during chemical reactions, and then investigate some various chemical reactions.
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Mit: Blossoms: Amazing Problem: Arithmetic & Geometric Sequences
Through the integration of video lectures and hands-on activities, students are introduced to the laws of arithmetic and geometric sequences.
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Mit: Blossoms: Static Kinetic Friction Forces: Similarities & Differences
Students move past the misconception that friction inhibits our ability to do things by watching videos and participating in corresponding activities. Activities which range in difficulty include calculating the coefficient of friction.
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Mit: Blossoms: Plastics and Covalent Chemical Bonds
Interactive video lesson discusses the distribution of electrons in a carbon atom, and then follows with a chemical investigation of plastics.
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Mit: Blossoms: Sorting Algorithms
Through videos and learning activities, students use programming language knowledge and logical thinking skills to divide problems into steps to be solved by a computer.
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Mit: Blossoms: The Towers of Hanoi: Experiential Recursive Thinking
After viewing video components, students use manipulatives to work with the famous Towers of Hanoi problem. The goal is for learners to begin to understand recursive logic and thinking, relevant to computer scientists, mathematicians,...
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Mit: Blossoms: Antioxidant Enzymes: Three or Four Veggies a Day Keeps Aging Away
The purpose of this video lesson is to expand the student's knowledge about enzymes by introducing the antioxidant enzymes that are intimately involved in the prevention of cellular damage and eventual slowing of the aging process and...
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Mit: Blossoms: Biotechnology: Can It Help in Making the Desert Green?
This learning video introduces high school students to a topic they would not ordinarily study in school, biotechnology, and to different applications of biotechnology that relate to the main theme of the module - making the desert...
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Mit: Blossoms: Blood: The Stuff of Life
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students about blood and its components while instilling an appreciation of its importance for survival. The lesson takes a step-by-step approach to determining the "recipe" for blood while...
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Mit: Blossoms: Building Cryptosystems
This video module presents an introduction to cryptography - the method of sending messages in such a way that only the intended recipients can understand them. In this very interactive lesson, students will build three different devices...
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Mit: Blossoms: Can Earthquakes Be Predicted?
This learning video uses a simple analog setup to explore why earthquakes are so unpredictable. The setup is simple enough that students should be able to assemble and operate it on their own with a teacher's supervision. [22:48]
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Mit: Blossoms: Catalytic Converter
This video lesson aims to motivate students about chemistry and to raise their awareness about how chemistry helps in solving certain environmental problems. In this lesson, the air pollution problem created by cars and other vehicles is...
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Mit: Blossoms: Classifying Animals by Appearance Versus Dna Sequence
The topic of this video module is how to classify animals based on how closely related they are. The main learning objective is that students will learn how to make phylogenetic trees based on both physical characteristics and on DNA...
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Mit: Blossoms: Connections in the Plane Without Crossing
This lesson presents interesting and challenging problems in Graph Theory, supporting the skills that students learned at school and stimulating their critical thinking. The topics will include: basic properties of graphs; complete...
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Mit: Blossoms: Counting Systems
This video aims to explain counting systems (Decimal, Binary, and Hexadecimal). Students will get to know how to convert numbers between these systems. Also, students will learn how to do some byte and bit level operations. They will use...
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Mit: Blossoms: Discovering Genes Associated With Diseases and Traits in Dogs
In this video module, students learn how scientists use genetic information from dogs to find out which gene (out of all 20,000 dog genes) is associated with any specific trait or disease of interest. This method involves comparing...
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Mit: Blossoms: Discovering Medicines, Using Robots and Computers
Students meet a scientist who created software that looks at images of cells and determines which images show cells that have responded to potential medicines. Students will learn about how this technology is currently enabling research...
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Mit: Blossoms: Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This video lesson introduces students to the worlds of engineering innovation and entrepreneurship. It seeks to encourage students to see the world with a fresh perspective for innovation through interactive classroom brainstorming...
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Mit: Blossoms: Fabulous Fractals and Difference Equations
This learning video introduces students to the world of Fractal Geometry through the use of difference equations. [32:31]
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Mit: Blossoms: Fantastic Factorials
The aim of this video lesson is to introduce the concept of factorials, and to show students that everyday events in their lives have so much to do with factorials - even if they do not realize it! During this video, students will learn...
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Mit: Blossoms: Flu Math Games
This video lesson shows students that math can play a role in understanding how an infectious disease spreads and how it can be controlled. During this lesson, students will see and use both deterministic and probabilistic models and...