BLOSSOMS

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BLOSSOMS is an MIT educational project in partnership with colleagues in Jordan and Pakistan. Each BLOSSOMS module is a multi-segment educational video to be shown in a high school math or science class, with the in-class teacher leading the students in interactive educational activities between each BLOSSOMS video segment. BLOSSOMS is funded by the Hewlett Foundation with additional funding by the Sloan Foundation and by partners in Jordan and Pakistan.

BLOSSOMS - Geologic Time

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BLOSSOMS - Geologic Time

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, like the formation of the Himalayan Mountains from a flat ...

BLOSSOMS - Gravity at work with cycling - Dr. Arshad Bhatti ...

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BLOSSOMS - Gravity at work with cycling - Dr. Arshad Bhatti - English

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 use these laws as if they were ...

BLOSSOMS - Gravity at work with cycling - Dr. Arshad Bhatti ...

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BLOSSOMS - Gravity at work with cycling - Dr. Arshad Bhatti - Urdu

BLOSSOMS - Jordanian Quick Video Tour

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BLOSSOMS - Jordanian Quick Video Tour

This video is a collage of scenes from the 17 BLOSSOMS video lessons made by educators in Jordan.

BLOSSOMS - Blood: The Stuff of Life

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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 introducing students to important laboratory techniques like ...

BLOSSOMS - Discovering Genes Associated with Diseases and ...

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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.

BLOSSOMS - Using DNA to Identify People

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BLOSSOMS - Using DNA to Identify People

This lesson focuses on the molecular biology technique of DNA fingerprinting: what it is, how it works, and how the data from these experiments are used for paternity testing and forensics?

A Visit to the Identification Unit of the Cambridge ...

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A Visit to the Identification Unit of the Cambridge Massachusetts Police ...

This video presents a tour of the Identification Unit of the Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Department. The tour includes an introduction to all equipment used in the unit and also a step-by-step explanation of the process for testing criminal evidence.

BLOSSOMS - Optimizing Your Diet: What Linear Programming ...

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BLOSSOMS - Optimizing Your Diet: What Linear Programming Can Tell You!

In this video lesson, students will learn about linear programming and will solve a linear programming problem using the graphical method. Its focus is on the famous "Stigler's diet" problem posed by the 1982 Nobel Laureate in economics, George Stigler.

BLOSSOMS - Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (Arabic Voiceover)

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BLOSSOMS - Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (Arabic Voiceover)

This video module 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 the setup on their own with teacher supervision. It is important to note that students should ...

BLOSSOMS - Is Bigger Better?: A Look at a Selection Bias ...

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BLOSSOMS - Is Bigger Better?: A Look at a Selection Bias that Is All ...

This learning video addresses a particular problem of selection bias. Rather than delving into this broad topic via formal statistics, the video investigates how it may appear in our everyday lives, sometimes distorting our perceptions of people, places and events, ...

BLOSSOMS - Classifying Animals by Appearance Versus DNA ...

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BLOSSOMS - Classifying Animals by Appearance Versus DNA Sequence with ...

Video Summary: 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 sequence. Students ...

BLOSSOMS - Protein Purification (Arabic Voiceover)

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BLOSSOMS - Protein Purification (Arabic Voiceover)

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.

BLOSSOMS - Using Geometry to Design Simple Machines with ...

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BLOSSOMS - Using Geometry to Design Simple Machines with Professor Daniel ...

Video Summary: This video is meant to be a fun, hands-on session that gets students to think hard about how machines work. It teaches them the connection between the geometry that they study and the kinematics that engineers use -- explaining that kinematics is simply ...

BLOSSOMS - The Physics of Boomerangs

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BLOSSOMS - The Physics of Boomerangs

This learning video explores the mysterious physics behind boomerangs and other rapidly spinning objects. Students will get to make and throw their own boomerangs between video segments!

BLOSSOMS - The Physics of Donkey Carts (English)

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BLOSSOMS - The Physics of Donkey Carts (English)

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.

BLOSSOMS - Guess the last ball: An exercise in Mathematical ...

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BLOSSOMS - Guess the last ball: An exercise in Mathematical Modelling by ...

Through the medium of a simple game, this video lesson uses the technique of induction to show students how to analyze a seemingly random occurrence in order to understand it through the development of a mathematical model.

BLOSSOMS - Is Bigger Better?: A Look at a Selection Bias ...

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BLOSSOMS - Is Bigger Better?: A Look at a Selection Bias that Is All ...

BLOSSOMS - Free Fall

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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 beauty of this lesson is the simplicity of using only the time it takes for an object ...

BLOSSOMS - Broken Stick (Arabic Voiceover)

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BLOSSOMS - Broken Stick (Arabic Voiceover)

Video Summary: 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. One class session of approximately 55 minutes is necessary for ...

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