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Mit: Blossoms: How Cold Is Cold: What Is Temperature?
This video lesson is part of a two-part series and introduces the concept of temperature. Temperature can be a challenging concept to convey since our perception is tied to words that are relative to our own experience, which varies...
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Mit: Blossoms: How Does Biotechnology Help Clean Up the Environment?
The objective of this lesson is to introduce students to one of the most important issues affecting human life and health in the 21st century, the application of modern biotechnology to the problems of environmental pollution. [22:51]...
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Mit: Blossoms: How Much Small Is Small?
This video lesson introduces students to the concept of size. It looks at how to classify objects based on their size and how the size of an object affects its properties and behavior. In our world, we have many different sizes -...
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Mit: Blossoms: Is Bigger Better? A Look at a Selection Bias That Is All Around Us
This learning video addresses a particular problem of selection bias, a statistical bias in which there is an error in choosing the individuals or groups to make broader inferences. Rather than delve into this broad topic via formal...
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Mit: Blossoms: Computer Network Topologies & Malaysian Weddings
The aim of this video lesson is to teach students about the different topologies of computer networks and how they function. The approach that is used is highly correlated with common knowledge about weddings and the local Malay culture...
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Mit: Blossoms: Kite Flying: Fun, Art and Science
This lesson presents the basics of aerodynamics by using kite flying as an example, i.e., forces acting on a flying object. [39:36]
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Mit: Blossoms: Measuring Distances in the Milky Way
The main aim of this lesson is to show students that distances may be determined without a meter stick-a concept fundamental to such measurements in astronomy. It introduces students to the main concepts behind the first rung of what...
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Mit: Blossoms: Methods for Protein Purification
This Protein Purification video lesson is intended to give students some insight into the process and tools that scientists and engineers use to explore proteins. It is designed to extend the knowledge of students who are already...
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Mit: Blossoms: Optimizing Your Diet: What Linear Programming Can Tell You!
In this video lesson, students will learn about linear programming (LP) and will solve an LP problem using the graphical method. Its focus is on the famous "Stigler's diet" problem posed by the 1982 Nobel Laureate in economics, George...
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Mit: Blossoms: Physics of Donkey Carts
This video lesson explores Newton's Third Law of Motion through examination of several real world examples of this law in action, including that of a donkey cart - a site common in the streets of Pakistan. Students will understand that...
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Mit: Blossoms: Plants and Environmental Resources
Earth contains a variety of plants to provide food, medicine and, most importantly, energy sources for humans. In this lesson, students will categorize plants by their components and shapes. Additionally, they will learn the mechanisms...
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Mit: Blossoms: Plasma: The Fourth State of Matter
In this video lesson, students will achieve the following learning objectives: 1) Become familiar with the fourth state of matter, "plasma"; 2) Understand the concept of plasma: 3) Compare the four states of matter; and 4) Learn some...
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Mit: Blossoms: Pythagoras and the Juice Seller
This video lesson presents a real world problem, one that a juice seller faces daily, that can be solved by using the Pythagorean theorem. [33:54]
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Mit: Blossoms: Quantifying the Energy Associated With Everyday Things and Events
This lesson is about energy and how it manifests itself in every day things and events. In particular, the video focuses on quantification or estimation of energy. The main learning objectives are to: gain familiarity with units of...
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Mit: Blossoms: Rational Versus Irrational Numbers
The scope of this video lesson consists in studying the sets of Rational and Irrational numbers. The main objectives for the students are: 1) Learning how to distinguish between a rational number and an irrational number; 2) Learning...
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Mit: Blossoms: Roots, Shoots, and Wood
The topic of photosynthesis is a fundamental concept in biology, chemistry, and earth science. Educational studies have found that despite classroom presentations, most students retain their naive idea that a plant's mass is mostly...
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Mit: Blossoms: Save Our Kingdom Conservation of Mass
There are many misconceptions about the chemistry concept, "Conservation of Mass". Thus, the aim of this video lesson is to teach students about the chemical concept of Conservation of Mass through several chemistry experiments. [17:10]...
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Mit: Blossoms: Selfish Drivers: The Braess Paradox and Traffic Planning
The idea of this lesson is to introduce, in a simplified manner, the so-called Braess Paradox by providing simple examples to clarify that the addition of some new roads to a network does not always lead to an improvement in the...
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Mit: Blossoms: Soaring in the Wind: The Science of Kite Flying
Flying kites is a popular hobby in Malaysia and very much part of the culture. This lesson looks at kite flying science to introduce basic ideas related to the dynamics of kite flying and can be used as an extension of a physics lesson,...
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Mit: Blossoms: Static Equilibrium
This video lesson will focus on systems that are said to be in equilibrium- that is, systems that are not allowed to move away from their original places or rotate about their axis. Students will learn about static equilibrium by...
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Mit: Blossoms: Sustainable Energy: Can Water Be the Future Fuel?
The main objective of this video lesson is to bring the students' attention to the importance of basic and natural sciences in our lives. The lesson will introduce a topic (sustainable energy) that is related mainly to chemistry and is...
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Mit: Blossoms: Taking Walks, Delivering Mail: An Introduction to Graph Theory
This learning video presents an introduction to graph theory through two fun, puzzle-like problems: "The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg" and "The Chinese Postman Problem." [55:23]
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Mit: Blossoms: Art of Approximation Science & Engineering: Whip Out Answers
The purpose of this learning video is to show students how to think more freely about math and science problems. This video explores techniques for making quick, back-of-the-envelope approximations that are not only surprisingly...
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Mit: Blossoms: Broken Stick Experiment: Triangles/random Numbers/probability
This learning video is designed to develop critical thinking in students by encouraging them to work from basic principals to solve a puzzling mathematics problem that contains uncertainty. [33:08]