It’s Really Heating Up in Here!
Students create and observe a greenhouse effect model and discuss the implications of global warming theory for engineers, themselves and the Earth.
Hot Stuff!
Students observe demonstrations, and build and evaluate simple models to understand the greenhouse effect and the role of increased greenhouse gas concentration in global warming.
Moving without Wheels
In a class demonstration, students observe a simple water cycle model to better understand its role in pollutant transport. This activity shows one way in which pollution is affected by the water cycle; it simulates a point source of pollution in a lake and the resulting environmental consequences.
21L.703 Studies in Drama: Theater and Science in a Time of War (MIT)
This course explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Molière. The class compares period thinking to present-day debates about the scientific method, art, religion, and society. This team-taught, interdisciplinary subject draws on a wide range of literary, dramatic, historical, and scientific texts and images, and involves theatrical exp
Dilutions
A series of Questionmark Perception files that use scenario-based projects to explain the theory of dilutions. Also included is a bank of questions requiring the reader to complete complex calculations related to dilution series and the construction of solutions to a specific concentration or molarity. The QTIXML file needs to be opened in QP Authoring Manager, converted to an assessment and exported into your own VLE.
CAD Interfaces to the ARROW Manufactured Product Server
The UK national project ARROW (Advanced Reusable Reliable Objects Warehouse) provides an Internet based framework through which it is possible to identify any of a range of manufactured products meeting specific design criteria. This open framework (based upon the IAI's IFCs) provides a mechanism for users to search for products from any participating manufacturer or supplier based both on specific attributes of a product or on any of the textual descriptions of the product. The service returns
'It's my body and I'll do what I Like with it' Bodies as possessions and objects
We commonly use the language of body ownership as a way of claiming personal rights, though we do not normally mean it literally. Most people feel uneasy about markets in sexual or reproductive services, and though there is a substantial global trade in body tissues, the illicit trade in live human organs is widely condemned. But what, if any, is the problem with treating bodies as resources and/or possessions? Is there something about the body that makes it particularly inappropriate to apply t
Challenging reality
A behind the scenes interview with Professor Christopher Barnatt, Director and Producer of a new TV documentary on what we perceive to be real, and what, if any, future lies ahead for us.
The TV documentary was televised in April 2009 and was based on a book written by Professor Christopher Barnatt in 1997, also entitled Challenging Reality, which focused on momentus change across history. The new television series developed this theme further, with input from numerous other experts at the Uni
Monitoring Business Performance: Costs of the Business: Solutions
Solutions for the activities in unit 5: Costs of the Business, from the Monitoring Business Performance resource.
Monitoring Business Performance: Forms of Revenue: Solutions
Solutions to the activities within unit 4: Forms of Revenue from the Monitoring Business Performance resource.
Monitoring Business Performance: Cash Budget: Solutions
Solutions to activities for Monitoring Business Performance: Cash Budget.
Monitoring Business Performance: Calculate profit or loss: Solutions
This contains the solutions to the activities for the resource Monitoring Business Performance: Calculate profit or loss
Marketing: Researching a Business
This object describes the risks of starting a small business; creating a business plan for success; explore case studies; identifies key areas of business plans that need research; and the preparation of an action plan based on the research. This forms the competency researching a business within the associate diploma of business
Make up a solution - Prepare Working Solutions
An introduction to procedures in scientific and medical
testing laboratories for preparing commonly used chemical solutions. Covers
procedures for preparing a solution from scratch and the associated record
keeping.
Eiffel Tower
Renewable Energy: Hydropower
This lesson introduces students to the use of flowing or falling water (hydropower) to perform work, particularly electric power generation. Topics include the history of hydropower development, the invention of turbines and electric generators.
Taylor on the State of the Economy
John Taylor of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the economy. Is the economy recovering? What policies have helped and hurt? Taylor gives his views on both monetary and fiscal policy including the stimulus package passed last year, and current Fed policy. The conversation closes with a discussion of the global economy, particularly Poland and its recent success in avoiding recession.
12.746 Marine Organic Geochemistry (MIT)
This class is designed to provide the student with a global to molecular-level perspective of organic matter cycling in the oceans and marine sediments. Topics include: Organic matter (C,N,P) composition, reactivity and budgets within, and fluxes through, major ocean reservoirs; microbial recycling pathways for organic matter; models of organic matter degradation and preservation; role of anoxia in organic matter burial; relationships between dissolved and particulate (sinking and suspended) org
Design effective instruction
For your project, we've had a request from Swish Solutions to develop a short sequence of instruction for them.
21M.294 Popular Musics of the World (MIT)
This course focuses on popular music, i.e. music created for and transmitted by mass media. Various popular music genres from around the world will be studied through listening, reading and written assignments, with an emphasis on class discussion. In particular, we will consider issues of musical change, syncretism, Westernization, globalization, the impact of recording industries, and the post-colonial era. Case studies will include Afro-pop, reggae, bhangra, rave, and global hip-hop.
