Buster Baxter Lung Defender (Interactive)
Learn about different asthma triggers and how they can affect the lungs of someone with asthma. Travel into Buster's lungs to protect him from various asthma triggers and see how an inhaler helps.
Probability Density Functions - Khan Academy
Probability density functions for continuous random variables. (10:02)
Travels with Garrison - the gig of a lifetime (short version)
Richard Kriehn travels with Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion radio road show—as a member of The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band.
He is also an instructor and academic advisor in Washington State University's School of Music, where he teaches violin, mandolin, viola, and guitar. In 2006, he sent a sample of his music to A Prairie Home Companion, hoping to land a place in an upcoming performance at Pullman's Beasley Coliseum. The music director invited him to sit in with the band and thing
Computer Accuracy
Accuracy of measurement in navigation depends very much on the situation. If a sailor’s target is an island 200 km wide, sailing off center by 10 or 20 km is not a major problem. But, if the island were only 1 km wide, it would be missed if off just the smallest bit. Many of the measurements made while navigating involve angles, and a small error in the angle can translate to a much larger error in position when traveling long distances.
Up, Up and Away! - Airplanes
The airplanes unit begins with a lesson on how airplanes create lift, which involves a discussion of air pressure and how wings use Bernoulli's Principle to change air pressure. Following the lessons on lift, students explore the other three forces acting on airplanes — thrust, weight and drag. Following these lessons, students learn how airplanes are controlled and use paper airplanes to demonstrate these principles. The final lessons addresses societal and technological impacts airplanes hav
Where is Your Teacher?
In this activity, students will learn how to take bearing with a compass. They will also learn how to describe a bearing and find an object in their classroom using a bearing.
Topos, Compasses, and Triangles, Oh My!
In this activity, students will learn how to actually triangulate using a compass, topographical (topo) map and view of outside landmarks. It is best if a field trip to another location away from school is selected. The location should have easily discernable landmarks (like mountains or radio towers) and changes in elevation (to illustrate the topographical features) to enhance the activity. A national park is an ideal location, and visiting a number of parks, especially parks with hiking trail
Mechanics Mania
Through ten lessons and numerous activities, students explore the natural universal rules engineers and physicists use to understand how things move and stay still. Together, these rules are called “mechanics.” The study of mechanics is a way to improve our understanding of everyday movements, such as how gravity pulls things together, how objects balance, spin and twirl, and how things fly and fall. While studying Newton's three laws of motion, students gain hands-on experience with the con
It’s About Time
In past times, ocean navigators tossed a piece of wood over the side of their ships and noted how long until the ship passed the wood. They used this time measurement and the length of the ship to calculate their speed and estimate how far they had traveled. In this activity, students act the part of a GPS signal traveling to the receiver to learn how travel time is converted to distance.
Introduction The case studies in this unit introduce various typologies of heritage and the methods used to study them. The case studies help to draw attention to the fact that the heritage traditions in England, Scotland and Wales are not the same and are enshrined in slightly different legislation. Every study of heritage requires an understanding of the legal context and the traditions and history governing the object of heritage. This material is from our archive and is an adapted extract from <
Children's Musical - Mexican Hat Dance on
This is a short children's version of The Mexican Hat Dance. It features a song about the dance and how to do it with dancers dancing the traditional dance. This is a fun way for kids to learn more about Mexican culture. (01:33)
Sesame Street with Nancy Odell---Learn About Pollination
This is a cute video that teaches young learners what pollination is. A flower and bee puppet are used to explain how to make more flowers grow. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections between nature and the classroom. (1:30)
Enviro Spotter: An Interactive Game About Characteristics of Animals
In this interactive game, students identify homes of various animals and characteristics of different animals ( Ex. Ducks have webbed feet to help with swimming). ( This link is for an interactive game and may take a few minutes to load.)
AIRS Volumetric Temperature Data with Gradient Background (Fly In)
This visualization shows Aqua-Airs simulated volumetric temperature data for September 13, 1999. The data was created using the Finite Volume Community Climate Model (FVCCM). Temperature and cloud data sets were match rendered for cross dissolves in post production. This visualization was created as a part of the Aqua prelaunch package.
7.5 More revision questions
Hearing is a familiar and important human sense that is a topic naturally of interest to those who are curious about human biology. This unit will enable you to relate what you read to your own sensory experiences – and indeed many of the questions asked have exactly that function. This unit will be best understood by those with some biological understanding.
2.1 Introduction The original TV programme was divided into an introduction and seven sections, each preceded by a simple question that appears on screen. To help you to explore this material, we have split the programme into eight clips, each associated with an activity. Once you have completed all the activities, you will have viewed the TV programme in its entirety and considered some of the questions explored in the original OU course.
1 Themes and issues in the history of art This unit introduces you to a number of themes and issues in the history of art, taking as its pretext a visit to the Louvre in Paris. It asks three kinds of question: How did the Grand Louvre (as the modernised Louvre is called) – its buildings, paintings and sculptures – come to be as it is? How should we respond to the claim that the collections in the Louvre constitute a significant part of the canon of Western European art?
Learning outcomes By the end of this unit you should be able to: have an understanding of how the Grand Louvre has come to be as it is; critically discuss the claim that the collections in the Louvre constitute a significant part of the canon of Western European art; ask questions of museums and collections that are appropriate to art history. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see Author(s):
