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Mit: Blossoms: Save Our Kingdom Conservation of Mass
There are many misconceptions about the chemistry concept, "Conservation of Mass". Thus, the aim of this video lesson is to teach students about the chemical concept of Conservation of Mass through several chemistry experiments. [17:10]...
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Mit: Blossoms: Selfish Drivers: The Braess Paradox and Traffic Planning
The idea of this lesson is to introduce, in a simplified manner, the so-called Braess Paradox by providing simple examples to clarify that the addition of some new roads to a network does not always lead to an improvement in the...
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Mit: Blossoms: Soaring in the Wind: The Science of Kite Flying
Flying kites is a popular hobby in Malaysia and very much part of the culture. This lesson looks at kite flying science to introduce basic ideas related to the dynamics of kite flying and can be used as an extension of a physics lesson,...
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Mit: Blossoms: Static Equilibrium
This video lesson will focus on systems that are said to be in equilibrium- that is, systems that are not allowed to move away from their original places or rotate about their axis. Students will learn about static equilibrium by...
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Mit: Blossoms: Sustainable Energy: Can Water Be the Future Fuel?
The main objective of this video lesson is to bring the students' attention to the importance of basic and natural sciences in our lives. The lesson will introduce a topic (sustainable energy) that is related mainly to chemistry and is...
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Mit: Blossoms: Taking Walks, Delivering Mail: An Introduction to Graph Theory
This learning video presents an introduction to graph theory through two fun, puzzle-like problems: "The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg" and "The Chinese Postman Problem." [55:23]
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Mit: Blossoms: Art of Approximation Science & Engineering: Whip Out Answers
The purpose of this learning video is to show students how to think more freely about math and science problems. This video explores techniques for making quick, back-of-the-envelope approximations that are not only surprisingly...
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Mit: Blossoms: Broken Stick Experiment: Triangles/random Numbers/probability
This learning video is designed to develop critical thinking in students by encouraging them to work from basic principals to solve a puzzling mathematics problem that contains uncertainty. [33:08]
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Mit: Blossoms: The Disease of Our Time: Diabetes
This lesson presents a comprehensive overview of diabetes, including the causes of as well as the biological processes leading to this widespread disease. Students will learn about the symptoms of diabetes and will become knowledgeable...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Genetic Basis of Inheritance and Variation
The topic of this video module is genetic basis for variation among humans. The main learning objective is that students will learn the genetic mechanisms that cause variation among humans (parents and children, brothers and sisters) and...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Geometry of Parabolic Sand Dunes
One of the main problems facing Saudi Arabia and many other countries in the region is the movement of sand, which threatens the urban areas. With the expansion of new installations and other projects, sand dune movement is costing...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Magic Picture: Steganography in Bitmap Files
This video aims to connect many topics in computer science to reach the writing of an application that can do something useful in actual life. The student will get to know the concept of ciphering and hiding, will have a glance at the...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Mailman & Five Packages: Data Packets & Transfer Speed
This lesson will explain the process of data transfer throughout computer systems and the form the data gets transferred into. Additionally, we will touch on some factors that alter the transfer speed. [23:18] (English Subtitles)
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Mit: Blossoms: The Mathematics of Cryptography
This video lesson provides a more advanced approach to cryptography than the more experiential Sturtevant cryptography lesson also in the BLOSSOMS video library. Students will learn about the history of cryptography, and they will also...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Mathematics of Voting
The goal of this video lesson is to teach students about new and exciting ways of holding an election that they may not be aware of. Students will learn three different methods of voting: plurality, instant runoff, and the Borda count....
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Mit: Blossoms: The Monty Hall Problem: Outsmart a Game Show & Win a Car
This lesson teaches students how to make decisions in the face of uncertainty by using decision trees. Over the course of this lesson, students will learn about the role of uncertainty in decision making, how to make and use a decision...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Mystery of Motion: Momentum, Kinetic Energy & Conversion
In this video lesson, the concept of momentum applied to hard-body collisions is explained using a number of simple demonstrations, all of which can be repeated in the classroom. Understanding Newton's Laws is fundamental to all of...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Parallax Activity: Measuring the Distances to Nearby Stars
Determining the position of a star or other object in three-dimensional space is an important concept in astronomy. Finding stellar longitude (called right ascension) and latitude (declination) is easy enough, but it is much harder to...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Physics of Boomerangs
This learning video explores the mysterious physics behind boomerangs and other rapidly spinning objects. Students will get to make and throw their own boomerangs between video segments! A key idea presented is how torque causes the...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Physics of Pool
The objective of this lesson is to illustrate how a common everyday experience (such as playing pool) can often provide a learning moment. In the example chosen, we use the game of pool to help explain some key concepts of physics. [24:41]
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Mit: Blossoms: The Physics of Racing Cars
This video lesson discusses how a few simple physics concepts can help in understanding various factors that influence the performance of racing cars. Students will also learn how these same concepts influence the design and development...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Science of Soap Bubbles
As magic and ephemeral as they may seem, soap bubbles are a magnificent example of precise mathematics, physics and chemistry at work. Part One of this video lesson will explore the science that explains soap bubbles, as well as the...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Stroboscopic Effect
This module is about a particular effect of the frequency, which is the stroboscopic effect. The lesson discusses and demonstrates low frequency phenomena - less than 16 Hz - that can usually be observed clearly by the human eye, as well...
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Mit: Blossoms: Thermodynamics: Energy Conversion in Generating Electricity
This lesson is an introductory topic in thermodynamics, on the conversion of energy. The aim of this video is to support students in visualizing the conversion of energy and its importance in real world applications. [24:07]