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Mit: Open Course Ware: Highlights for High School: Highlights of Calculus
Students learn about the basics of calculus through a series of short videos. The videos are split into three sections including an introduction, the highlights of calculus, and derivatives.
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Mit: Open Course Ware: Chemistry Behind the Magic: Death of a Gummy Bear
A great video demonstration along with teaching notes that shows the release of energy and resulting byproducts when a gummy bear is oxidized when heated with potassium chlorate.
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Mit: Blossoms: The Pythagorean Theorem: Geometry's Most Elegant Theorem
Use this video to help teach the Pythagorean Theorem. The video can be downloaded, there is a transcript of the video, and a teacher's guide to aid in using the video. [21:38]
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Mit: Blossoms: Flaws of Averages
A video presentation in which two MIT Ph.D. students take a look at how averages can be misunderstood, or the "flaws of averages." Using a few real life examples, the students apply knowledge of these "flaws" when examining functions....
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Mit: Blossoms: Are Random Triangles Acute or Obtuse?
An MIT mathematics professor examines the probability of a random triangle being either obtuse or acute in a video [32:44] on geometrical probability. Video is accompanied by a teacher's guide, transcript, and several links on linear...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Broken Stick Experiment
An MIT engineering professor leads teachers and students through an activity in triangle formation and probability that requires a meter stick and other basic classroom materials. This video [33:08] is accompanied by a teacher's guide,...
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Mit: Blossoms: Taking Walks, Delivering Mail: Graph Theory
An MIT graduate student guides a classroom through fun activities that will introduce students to graph theory. The goal of these activities: find a route through a town without crossing the same path twice. Video is accompanied by a...
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Mit: Blossoms: Fabulous Fractals and Difference Equations
Former MIT student introduces the classroom to fractal geometry via a video presentation appropriate for students who have had two years of high school algebra. Video lesson content includes the "chaos game" and trajectory calculations...
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Mit: Blossoms: Fabulous Building Cryptosystems
As part of this introduction to cryptography, students will build three devices and learn how to encrypt and decrypt messages. Video is accompanied by a teacher's guide, transcript, and other handouts, as well as links for learning more...
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Mit: Blossoms: Fingerprinting Gravity
A University of Jordan physics professor leads an activity in which students measure gravity by observing a swinging pendulum and gathering related data. Video presentation is accompanied by a teacher's guide, other printable material,...
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Mit: Blossoms: Roots, Shoots, and Wood
The biggest misconception of the process of photosynthesis is presented along with other important aspects of this life-building process. [25:21]
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Mit: Open Course Ware: Digital Lab Techniques Manual
A series of videos on a variety of chemistry lab techniques that help students prepare for lab. Videos cover general technique as well as give suggestions for successful experiences. Videos run off of YouTube but can also be downloaded....
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Mit: Blossoms: How Mosquitos Fly in the Rain
By viewing high-speed videos of raindrops hitting mosquitos, learn how insects are able to fly in the rain by calculating the impact forces of raindrops on flying mosquitoes.
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Mit: Blossoms: The Case of the Stolen Painting: A Forensic Mystery
Investigate plant pollen dispersal methods through a forensic science investigation. In addition, students learn to communicate their investigation results to non-scientific audiences. [28:01]
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Mit: Blossoms: The King of Dinosaurs or a Chicken Dinner?
Could a Tyrannosaurus be created in a modern-day lab? Join paleontologist, Jack Horner, in using protein sequencing to find the closest relative to the T-Rex, and then hypothetically re-creating a specimen in the lab.
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Mit: Blossoms: How Scientific Teams Develop New Anti Cancer Drugs
Students learn how scientists in several fields work together to take part in the steps of anti-cancer drug discovery.
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Mit: Blossoms: From Teenage to Old Age: How Cancer Develops Over Time
Students participate in a hands-on lesson discovering how cancer is caused by mutations that accumulate over time.
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Mit: Blossoms: Making It Personal: Using Dna to Tailor Cancer Treatments
Students learn about the growth of cancer through an analogy of a kitchen with an appliance running out of control. Together, student learners investigate case studies of three patients with lung cancer and determine the cell mutation...
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Mit: Blossoms: Tissue Specific Gene Expression
How is it that all cells in our body have the same genes, yet cells in different tissues express different genes? A basic notion in biology that most high school students fail to conceptualize is the fact that all cells in the animal or...
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Mit: Blossoms: Atp: The Fuel of Life
A video lesson which introduces students to energy metabolism through the lens of ATP as the primary molecular unit of currency for the cell.
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Mit: Blossoms: The Power of Exponentials, Big and Small
Through this video lesson, students compare exponential growth to polynomial growth and discover how quickly the number can grow or decay in exponentials.
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Mit: Blossoms: Arabesque: Where Art Meets Mathematics
Through a video lecture, students discover the visual side of the important applications of mathematics in practical life. More specifically, they will understand the relationship of mathematics and decoration or art.
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Mit: Blossoms: The Respiratory System of Birds
Through videos and cooperative learning, students investigate the respiratory system of birds, describe its function, and then compare this to the respiratory function in human mammals.
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Mit: Blossoms: Who Do You Know? Theory Behind Social Networking
Through videos and cooperative learning, students to are introduced to algorithmic thinking within a popular field in graph theory, social networking.