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Mit: Blossoms: Fingerprinting Gravity
This very interactive video lesson uses the Simple Pendulum experiment to enable students to answer the fundamental question: What is the value of g in my school and in my home? Students will learn to calculate this value by working in...
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Mit: Blossoms: Flaws of Averages
This learning video presents an introduction to the Flaws of Averages using three exciting examples: the "crossing of the river" example, the "cookie" example, and the "dance class" example. Averages are often worthwhile representations...
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Mit: Blossoms: Probability Theory
The main objective of this lesson is to motivate students' thoughts and get them excited about some probability concepts. The aim is to present probability theory in as simple a manner as possible. It is hoped that students will learn...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Art of Making Layer Cakes: Construction of Bituminous Roads
The aim of this video is to introduce high school students to the engineering concept of road construction and to the reasons why problems might arise in road construction. Presentation of this concept is made more accessible to students...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Pythagorean Theorem: Application and Proof
In this video lesson, students will not only learn about Pythagoras and the Pythagorean Theorem, but they will also demonstrate a proof of this theorem, use it to solve problems, and create their own real world problems to challenge the...
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Mit: Blossoms: Uniform Circular Motion and Centrifugal Force
The objective of this video lesson is to correct the misconception in the students' understanding of centrifugal force. The lesson will work to clarify this misconception by using Newton's three laws of motion, particularly the law of...
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Mit: Blossoms: The Olive Propagation Problem
In this video lesson, students will learn about the DNA fingerprinting of plants by studying the following real world problem: A farmer bought olive trees of the variety called "nabali", known for producing high amounts of oil. However,...
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Mit: Blossoms: Tragedy of the Commons
This lesson introduces students to the "Tragedy of the Commons," an extended metaphor for problems of shared environmental or man-made resources that are overused and eventually depleted. In this metaphor, shared resources are compared...