Solar Power
In this activity, students learn how engineers use solar energy to heat buildings by investigating the thermal storage properties of some common materials: sand, salt, water and shredded paper. Students then evaluate the usefulness of each material as a thermal storage material to be used as the thermal mass in a passive solar building.
Multicultural Math Fair
This website provides a collection of activities compiled by the Mathematics Department at Frisbie Middle School in Rialto, Calif. for use at its Multicultural Math Fair. Although the activities are from the 1999-2000 Multicultural Math Fair, the Math Forum maintains the website and all the links were current at the time of this report. The website includes some tips on how to set up a Multicultural Math Fair as well as data sheets and software for some of the activities, such as the Tower of Ha
Floral Arrangements
Explore a few of the ways plants pollinate each other in this video segment from Sexual Encounters of a Floral Kind.
Intro to Chemistry: 10.1 Introduction to Acids and Bases (1/2)
Join award winning teachers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams as they interactively teach Chemistry: 10.1 Introduction to Acids and Bases. Common acids and bases are identified. The properties of acids and bases are also identified. ( 8:01)
David Lewis: “Polarization and the Presidency”
Watch video of David Lewis, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science, speaking at the Osher Lifelong Learning class, “Politics in a Polarized Polity.” The Feb. 1 class, “Polarization and the Presidency,” focuses on how changes to the presidential selection process have affected the presidents we elect and on changes to the executivekeep reading »
Dr. Michael Neuss: “How much progress has been made in the fight against cancer?”
Watch video of Dr. Michael Neuss speaking about the fight against cancer. Neuss spoke Feb. 1 as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning class, “Medical Advances.” The course is presented by faculty of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and focuses on what the future of medicine holds. Physicians are now able to use a patient’s DNAkeep reading »
Is Nothing Sacred? Free Speech and Religion
Professor A C Grayling delivers the 2011 Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture, with responses by Charles Moore and Dr. Usama Hasan. Filmed on 10 June 2011.
Organización y administración de unidades de información (2007)
La asignatura se centra en aquellas funciones y habilidades básicas que tienen que ver con la "función directiva", tanto las de carácter instrumental como las de gestión o de carácter interpersonal. Entre estas últimas se analizan aquellas que afectan directamente a los colaboradores: trabajar en equipo, formar, informar, comunicar, motivar, etc. Se tratan las principales tareas, problemas, necesidades y demandas a las que se suelen enfrentar las personas que, independientemente de su cat
Tecnología de materiales industriales (2009)
Asignatura en la que se pretende que el alumno conozca los fundamentos básicos de la ciencia de los materiales, la clasificación de las diversas familias de materiales, sus propiedades, aplicaciones y comportamiento en servicio, y la tecnología desarrollada para la mejora de las propiedades de los materiales.
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3D Text Test V2
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TED402 Session 2 Spring 2012
Educational Psychology with Jeff Miller 02/01/12
Casey Carlson
STEM Fair
Learn About the Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China is a famous historical landmark in the northern part of China. Learn more about the Great Wall of China, including when and why it was built.
Forum Sante sur le theme du cerveau (video)
Avec l'imagerie on peut désormais voir le cerveau humain en action. Mais que voit-on exactement ? Que nous savons aujourd'hui de notre cerveau? Quelles avancées cela permet-il aujourd'hui ?
Avec le professeur Braun, neuroradiologue au CHU de Nancy et le professeur Schwann psychiatre au CHU de Nancy.
Enregistré le vendredi 20 janvie
Forum Santé de Margo Initiative sur le thème du cerveau
Qin Dynasty and Han Dynasty
This 6:35 long lecture uses maps and other graphics to provide an excellent overview of these two dynasties and what they believed and did to the Chinese people.
Renaissance Dance, Pavane
Contrapasso Renaissance Dancers filmed at Kronborg Castle, Denmark
Engineering For Our Changing Climate
The Massachusetts Climate Change Adaptation Report was recently released. Hear about what this means for the state from local experts including the Chief of Environment and Energy for the City of Boston, architects for the new Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, and employees of Environmental services at MASSDOT Highway Division.
Urban Unrest
While the 1960s saw young people "tune out" by way of the hippie counterculture, other segments of society were also calling for change. Both ethnic minorities and women were hard at work challenging what they saw as unjust laws and unfair treatment by society (Video is narrated with slides and speeches.)
