Quick take on geoboard geometry
This one-page document highlights online resources that can help teachers include geoboards in their teaching. Geoboards can be powerful tools for students to study length, area and perimeter.
Designing a Medical Device to Extract Foreign Bodies from the Ear
Students learn the engineering design process by actually utilizing the steps, from identification of the problem to designing a device and evaluating its efficacy and areas for improvement. A quick story at the beginning of the activity reveals the problem: a small child put a pebble in his ear and we don’t know how to get it out! As biomedical engineers, the students are asked to design a device to remove it. Each student pair is provided with a model ear canal and a wide variety of classroo
Engineering Brainstorming
Students act as an engineering consulting firm that is to design and sell their idea for a new vehicle power system. During the brainstorming activity (Generate Ideas), students should determine and comprehend what type of information is required for them to learn in order to accomplish the task. Then students will watch several video clips as part of Multiple Perspectives. These will change and focus their original ideas.
How Much Water Do You Use?
Students keep track of their own water usage for one week, gaining an understanding of how much water is used for various everyday activities. They relate their own water usages to the average residents of imaginary Thirsty County, and calculate the necessary water capacity of a dam that would provide residential water to the community.
Weather Alert
Students discuss the characteristics of storms, including the relationship of weather fronts and storms. Using everyday materials, they develop models of basic lightning detection systems (similar to a Benjamin Franklin design) and analyze their models to determine their effectiveness as community storm warning systems.
Will It Conduct?
Students build their own simple conductivity tester and explore whether given solid materials and solutions are good conductors of electricity.
5.5 Indoor pollutants
To be able to understand the importance of the environment for our health, we need to know a little about the interdependence between environment and humankind. This unit will look at interactions between plants, animals and the physical and chemical environment, as well as considering ways in which humans have altered, and are altering this environment. These changes have health implications that are not always immediately obvious. Frequently, we initiate changes that are going to have their ef
5.2 Air pollution
To be able to understand the importance of the environment for our health, we need to know a little about the interdependence between environment and humankind. This unit will look at interactions between plants, animals and the physical and chemical environment, as well as considering ways in which humans have altered, and are altering this environment. These changes have health implications that are not always immediately obvious. Frequently, we initiate changes that are going to have their ef
4.6 Plants as medicines
To be able to understand the importance of the environment for our health, we need to know a little about the interdependence between environment and humankind. This unit will look at interactions between plants, animals and the physical and chemical environment, as well as considering ways in which humans have altered, and are altering this environment. These changes have health implications that are not always immediately obvious. Frequently, we initiate changes that are going to have their ef
Supply and Demand
This 2:46 minute video provides an explanation of how supply and demand are used to price products and inspire new ways to raise capital. For older students, but the video does offer a good explanation for the terms.
Drum Set Fundamentals
Drummer, percussionist, composer, band leader, and Berklee College of Music professor Yoron Israel presents his new online course with Berkleemusic: Drum Set Fundamentals.
In this course, you can improve your overall coordination, touch, and dynamics, and gain a solid foundation in drum set performance and musicianship.
Learn more at: http://www.berkleemusic.com/school/course?course_item_id=21848182&pid=2036&keyword=israel-interview
Thunderbird Vision 2020
Thunderbird School of Global Management Vice President Joan Neice introduces the school's Vision 2020.
Building Global Sales Teams
Thunderbird School of Global Management Professor Sundaresan Ram, Ph.D., talks about building a global sales team for local success. http://www.thunderbird.edu
This Week @Minnesota: Spring fashion, robots & "Support the U"
In "This Week @Minnesota" for March 28 through April 1, we enlist the help of U of M junior Courtney to ask students about their spring fashion trends, check out a robotics competition on campus and help "Support the U" in a new advocacy effort.
This week's video also contains a hidden contest -- if you can name the time and place where Goldy Gopher appears (be sharp, it happens fast!), write us a comment below and we'll enter your name in a drawing for a new piece of Golden Gopher apparel!
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Prehistoric Picture Project
The Prehistoric Picture Project uses animation to make the pictures come to life, and also to help us understood just how they worked as graphics in prehistoric times.
This animation is based on Iron Age figures, dating from the last centuries BC, engraved into open-air rock slabs at Foppe di Nadro, Valcamonica, in the Italian Alps.
Here the pictures are made by hammering little peck-marks into the smooth natural rock surface. We call them 'pexils'. When we work digitally they become pixels.
Pathway to Space
High school science just got a whole lot more interesting. Students from around Australia can now embark on a mission to Mars and learn what it's like to follow science and engineering careers.
Pathways to Space, a federally funded project led by the University of New South Wales, will see students working with scientists in a Mars Yard at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum and linking up via video with researchers at UNSW and The University of Sydney.
The simulated mission exhibit, a recipient of alm
DNA Evidence Training
These training modules are intended to provide interactive training that covers basic information about the identification, preservation, and collection of DNA evidence at virtual crime scenes related homicide, sexual assault, and burglary. Information addressed in this interactive training program is delivered in two modules.
The Beginning Level Module focuses on issues that arise for the first-responding law enforcement officer.
The Advanced Level Module delivers more in-depth information for
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Harvard President visits Africa
Drew Faust is the first sitting Harvard University President to visit the continent of Africa. Faust traveled to Botswana and South Africa in support of University initiatives in both locations.
