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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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2D Equilibrium: Balancing Games
  • MIT+K12,
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2D Equilibrium: Balancing Games

Learn what 2D Equilibrium is and how it effects the balance of life

2nd-floor gravity
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
2nd-floor gravity

Does gravity affect everything at the same rate? An experiment to explain gravity.

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A Voyage to Mars: Bone Loss in Space
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  • Educational
A Voyage to Mars: Bone Loss in Space

Why do bones get weaker with less gravity and how can we prevent bone loss in space?

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A World Without Friction
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  • Educational
A World Without Friction

Learning the difference between kinetic and static friction.

An Introduction to Calorimetry
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
An Introduction to Calorimetry

Jacob and Erica learn about measuring energy through calorimetry.

Arduino Tutorial #1
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Arduino Tutorial #1

Learn about electronics using an Arduino.

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Aristotle vs. Galileo: The Race of All Time
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Aristotle vs. Galileo: The Race of All Time

Do all objects fall at the same rate, regardless of weight or size?

Balloon buoyancy: What makes balloons float?
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  • Educational
Balloon buoyancy: What makes balloons float?

How do different air pressures effect how a balloon reacts? Does it matter what the balloon is filled with?

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Basic Brain Anatomy
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Basic Brain Anatomy

What message is your brain sending?

Bioplastics
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Bioplastics

It takes 1000 years or more to break down plastic when we throw it away. What if we could engineer new plastics that can break down more easily? Try making your own vegetable-based plastic.

Bouncing Droplets: Superhydrophobic and Superhydrophilic ...
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Bouncing Droplets: Superhydrophobic and Superhydrophilic Surfaces

This video introduces the concept of surface tension, and shows how roughness can make a surface superhydrophobic or superhydrophilic. The Wenzel and Cassie-Baxter models are explained. Special thanks to the MIT BioInstrumentation Lab.

Bread Mold Kills Bacteria
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Bread Mold Kills Bacteria

How the penicillin in bread mold kills bacteria.

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Bridge Design (and Destruction!), part 1
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  • Educational
Bridge Design (and Destruction!), part 1

An introduction to the different types of bridges.

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Bridge Design (and Destruction!), part 2
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Bridge Design (and Destruction!), part 2

This is a two-part video that introduces the different types of bridges.

Buoyancy
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Buoyancy

If objects fall towards the earth because gravity acts on them, then why doesn't a ship sink? Buoyancy explains why somethings float while others don't.

Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect

What is the Greenhouse Effect and what role does carbon dioxide play?

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Chemiluminescence: the chemistry of light
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Chemiluminescence: the chemistry of light

What makes a glow stick glow?

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Circular Motion
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Circular Motion

What makes the Moon orbit the Earth and how can it be calculated?

Colorful Chemistry of Acids and Bases
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
Colorful Chemistry of Acids and Bases

Test the acidity of household products using something you can find in the supermarket: purple cabbage.

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Darwin, Mice and Picky Peacocks
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Darwin, Mice and Picky Peacocks

Natural selection at work.

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