Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Tissue Specific Gene Expression
How is it that all cells in our body have the same genes, yet cells in different tissues express different genes? A basic notion in biology that most high school students fail to conceptualize is the fact that all cells in the animal or...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Antioxidant Enzymes: Three or Four Veggies a Day Keeps Aging Away
The purpose of this video lesson is to expand the student's knowledge about enzymes by introducing the antioxidant enzymes that are intimately involved in the prevention of cellular damage and eventual slowing of the aging process and...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Biotechnology: Can It Help in Making the Desert Green?
This learning video introduces high school students to a topic they would not ordinarily study in school, biotechnology, and to different applications of biotechnology that relate to the main theme of the module - making the desert...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Blood: The Stuff of Life
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students about blood and its components while instilling an appreciation of its importance for survival. The lesson takes a step-by-step approach to determining the "recipe" for blood while...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Building Cryptosystems
This video module presents an introduction to cryptography - the method of sending messages in such a way that only the intended recipients can understand them. In this very interactive lesson, students will build three different devices...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Can Earthquakes Be Predicted?
This learning video uses a simple analog setup to explore why earthquakes are so unpredictable. The setup is simple enough that students should be able to assemble and operate it on their own with a teacher's supervision. [22:48]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Catalytic Converter
This video lesson aims to motivate students about chemistry and to raise their awareness about how chemistry helps in solving certain environmental problems. In this lesson, the air pollution problem created by cars and other vehicles is...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Classifying Animals by Appearance Versus Dna Sequence
The topic of this video module is how to classify animals based on how closely related they are. The main learning objective is that students will learn how to make phylogenetic trees based on both physical characteristics and on DNA...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Connections in the Plane Without Crossing
This lesson presents interesting and challenging problems in Graph Theory, supporting the skills that students learned at school and stimulating their critical thinking. The topics will include: basic properties of graphs; complete...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Counting Systems
This video aims to explain counting systems (Decimal, Binary, and Hexadecimal). Students will get to know how to convert numbers between these systems. Also, students will learn how to do some byte and bit level operations. They will use...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Discovering Genes Associated With Diseases and Traits in Dogs
In this video module, students learn how scientists use genetic information from dogs to find out which gene (out of all 20,000 dog genes) is associated with any specific trait or disease of interest. This method involves comparing...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Discovering Medicines, Using Robots and Computers
Students meet a scientist who created software that looks at images of cells and determines which images show cells that have responded to potential medicines. Students will learn about how this technology is currently enabling research...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This video lesson introduces students to the worlds of engineering innovation and entrepreneurship. It seeks to encourage students to see the world with a fresh perspective for innovation through interactive classroom brainstorming...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Fabulous Fractals and Difference Equations
This learning video introduces students to the world of Fractal Geometry through the use of difference equations. [32:31]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Fantastic Factorials
The aim of this video lesson is to introduce the concept of factorials, and to show students that everyday events in their lives have so much to do with factorials - even if they do not realize it! During this video, students will learn...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Flu Math Games
This video lesson shows students that math can play a role in understanding how an infectious disease spreads and how it can be controlled. During this lesson, students will see and use both deterministic and probabilistic models and...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Free Fall
This video lesson is an example of "teaching for understanding" in lieu of providing students with formulas for determining the height of a dropped (or projected) object at any time during its fall. The concept presented here of creating...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Psychology to Logic: Learning Computer Programming in the Kitchen
This lesson focuses on the biggest problem faced by any young programmer, the logic building required while solving a particular problem.[28:25]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Galaxies and Dark Matter
This video lesson has the goal of introducing students to galaxies as large collections of gravitationally bound stars. It explores the amount of matter needed for a star to remain bound and then brings in the idea of Dark Matter, a new...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Geologic Time: The Ticking of Our Planet's 4.6 Billion Year Clock
This BLOSSOMS lesson will help students conceptualize the enormity of geologic time and learn about important events in Earth's history. Students will also learn how geologic time can help explain seemingly incomprehensible processes....
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Gravity Assist Stealing a Planet's Angular Momentum
This video lesson will present Gravity Assist, or what is wrongly referred to as the gravitational slingshot. Gravity assist is a maneuver performed by interplanetary spacecraft to travel farther on less fuel. It is a classic exercise in...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Gravity at Work
This video lesson highlights how science can be learned from daily life experiences. It emphasizes the ways in which simple laws of physics can be understood from personal observations and experiences, and in fact it demonstrates that we...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: How Big Is a Mole? Do We Really Comprehend Avogadro's Number?
The goal of this lesson is for students to understand just how many particles Avogadro's Number truly represents, or, how big a mole really is. [19:02]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: How Cold Is Cold: Properties of Materials at Lower Temperatures
This video is the second lesson in the How Cold Is Cold? BLOSSOMS series and examines the properties of materials under low temperature conditions. [32:19]