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MIT+K12

Channel | updated May 02, 2013

MIT+K12

In December 2011, Ian Waitz, MIT’s Dean of Engineering, launched the MIT-K12 project, driven by a series of questions: How can we change the perception of the role of engineers and scientists in the world? What can MIT do, right now, to improve STEM education at the K12 level? What if MIT became a publicly accessible “experiential partner” to the country’s K12 educators? What if MIT students generated short-form videos to complement the work those educators are already doing in their classrooms and homes?

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Whats all the matter? Atoms and Molecules
  • MIT+K12,
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Whats all the matter? Atoms and Molecules

Atoms, elements and molecules. Understanding the building blocks of matter.

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What is Soap?
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
What is Soap?

Why does soap work to get the grease and dirt off of dirty pans and other things when water alone can't do the job?

What Can Engineers Make?
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
What Can Engineers Make?

uploaded 10/15/12

Welding... with Class
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Welding... with Class

Welding is an important industrial process, but do you know how it works?

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Under Pressure
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Under Pressure

In this video we replicate Pascal's famous experiment that showed atmospheric pressure was due to the column of the weight of the air above.

Turn of the Earth
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Turn of the Earth

How to build a Foucault Pendulum to prove that the Earth is rotating.

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Why do leaves change color?
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Time for Me to Leaf: Tree Chlorophyll Chromatography

Do this experiment to learn about different pigments in leaves.

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Thomas Young's Double Slit Experiment
  • Engineering,
  • Educational
Thomas Young's Double Slit Experiment

This video presents Young's Double Slit Experiment, the historical background that makes the experiment important and a version of the experiment you can make on your own.

The Shape of Sound
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
The Shape of Sound

uploaded 10/4/12

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The Rock Cycle
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
The Rock Cycle

How the different rock types are connected.

The Physics of Unicycling
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
The Physics of Unicycling

How does anyone balance on a unicycle? Just keep pedaling!

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The Marangoni Effect: How to make a soap-propelled boat!
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
The Marangoni Effect: How to make a soap-propelled boat!

The differences of surface tension between soap and water can really make things go.

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The layers of the Earth
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
The layers of the Earth

The Earth is approximately 4,000 miles from the center to its surface, but what makes up those miles of earth? Let's take a journey inside.

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The Invention of the Battery
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
The Invention of the Battery

How does a battery work? Allow Alessandro Volta and Luigi Galvani to explain.

The Heart of the Matter: An Introduction to Engineering ...
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
The Heart of the Matter: An Introduction to Engineering Heart Tissue

What is the best way to repair a heart after a heart attack? Maybe a tissue engineered blood vessel will work.

The Forces on an Airplane
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
The Forces on an Airplane

How do airplanes fly? It's not magic. Learn about the forces that help (and hinder) airplane flight.

The Doppler Effect
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
The Doppler Effect

The Decolorization of Crystal Violet
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
The Decolorization of Crystal Violet

uploaded 9/25/12

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The Attractiveness Of Magnetic Fields
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
The Attractiveness Of Magnetic Fields

What causes a material to be magnetic?

Take a Ride on the Centrifuge
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Take a Ride on the Centrifuge

This video uses Man-Vehicle Lab's human centrifuge to discuss centripetal force and countermeasures for astronaut bone and muscle loss in space.

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