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Inspired Learning through STEM Videos
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Price: $95.00 Sale Price: $45.00 You save $50.00!
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Three DVDs that encompass 35 videos to inspire STEM Learning from FASE Productions and the Futures Channel.
Below is a quick Clip of one video:
Algebra in the Real World Algebra in the Real World will enable you to show your students the excitement, the power, the range and the results of the applications of algebra in fascinating career fields. From astronomy to forestry, sports equipment design to saving endangered species, alternative energy to farming, algebra is shown in its vital role as the tool that allows us to create, to understand, and to improve our world. DVD includes 18 popular Futures Channel movies with algebra curriculum connections, supplementary algebra curriculum and correlations to the Common Core Mathematics Standards! DVD includes: Aquarium Makers
Building & Testing Wheels
Designing Stronger Skateboards
Engineering Faster Bikes
First One in the Ballpark
Landscape Architects
Maglev Trains
Reliable Robots
Roller Coasters
Saving the Bald Eagle
Solar Energy: Photovoltaics
Structural Engineering
Testing the Robotic Hand
The Forester
The Lundberg Farms
The Starshade
The Wind Business
Windsails
STEM in the Real World: Module 1 Enjoy this special collection of The Futures Channel's most popular real-world videos without having to connect to the Internet. Take your students on a field trip every day and show them math and science in the real world (no school bus required). Futures Channel Lesson Plans are provided with DVD purchase. Module 1 includes: The Blackfooted Ferret
Building Custom Guitars
Creating Cars
Designing Stronger Skateboards
Moorpark Zoo: Managing Exotic Animals
Predicting the Weather
Recycling Computers
The Rhythm Track
Roller Coasters
The Wind Business
STEM in the Real World: Module 2
Three words: Fast, affordable and simple. With this second volume of The Futures Channel's top movies on DVD, you can be inspiring your students with more real world applications of math and science in a matter of seconds. Futures Channel Lesson Plans are provided with DVD purchase. Module 2 includes: 100,000 Computers a Day
The Backpack Designer
Bats
Cheetahs
Designing Toy Cars
Flowers by the Millions
Maglev Trains
Testing Bats
Undersea Treasure
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Interactions: Real Math-Real Careers BUILDING A ROVER
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Interactions:Real Math-Real Careers (grades 6-9)
Building a Rover: To traverse the surface of the Moon or Mars, a vehicle must be able to think for itself. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's testing ground, a team of scientists demonstrates the rover that will soon wander over the Martian landscape. Geometry, Patterns/Functions
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Interactions: Real Math-Real Careers COACHING AN ATHLETE
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Interactions:Real Math-Real Careers (grades 6-9)
Coaching an Athlete: What young athlete doesn't dream of being in the Olympics? From a five mile run at dawn, to workouts on the mats, the head judo coach for the U.S. Olympic Training Team uses math to create training programs that put athletes at the peak of physical ability. Percents, Statistics
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Interactions: Real Math-Real Careers Complete 12 episode series
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Interactions:Real Math-Real Careers (grades 6-9)
A "field trip" like no other, Interactions takes middle and high school students on-site to meet professionals in fields ranging from sports to space exploration, to discover the role that middle school math concepts play in solving real-life problems.
Teacher and student materials accompanying the series enable students to become "colleagues" of the professionals they meet and use their math skills to plan their own recycling programs, to monitor the recovery of endangered animals, to design vehicles to explore other planets, to calculate the power generated by solar cells, and so on.
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Interactions: Real Math-Real Careers DEEP SEA MISSIONS
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Interactions:Real Math-Real Careers (grades 6-9)
Deep Sea Missions: It's cold; it's dark. The pressure is immense. A pilot and scientist from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute navigate a remotely operated deep-sea vehicle through underwater canyons, filming the ocean floor and collecting samples. Geometry, Ratios, Patterns/Functions
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Interactions: Real Math-Real Careers DESIGNING A PRODUCT
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Interactions:Real Math-Real Careers (grades 6-9)
Designing a Product: How is a pair of sunglasses like a coffee maker? Both are the end result of problem-solving. A senior product designer at Bausch and Lomb, takes viewers into the design studios and factory to see how a new style of Ray Bans are created and manufactured. Statistics, Percents, Geometry
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Interactions: Real Math-Real Careers DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
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Interactions:Real Math-Real Careers (grades 6-9)
Digital Communication: What is the information "Superhighway" really all about? Communications engineers at GTE, and US WEST provide a remarkably clear introduction to the basic concepts of the digital communications revolution. Viewers will see how 1's and 0's represent graphics, video, and even sounds. Exponents, Patterns/Functions, Powers of 10
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Interactions: Real Math-Real Careers ENDANGERED SPECIES
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Interactions:Real Math-Real Careers (grades 6-9)
Endangered Species: Can we bring back species that are on the brink of extinction? A Native American wildlife biologist, Robert Mesta, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, combines scientific training and traditional Indian values to help bring the Arizona bald eagle off the "endangered species" list. Ratios, Patterns
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Interactions: Real Math-Real Careers MAKING MUSIC
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Interactions:Real Math-Real Careers (grades 6-9)
Making Music: Do musicians really use much math? A composer takes students behind the scenes as she creates music for HBO's "Comic Relief," and a renowned percussionist demonstrates the rhythmic patterns used in jazz, rock, hip-hop and other popular music styles. Ratios, Proportions, Fractions
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Interactions: Real Math-Real Careers RECYCLING
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Interactions:Real Math-Real Careers (grades 6-9)
Recycling: A few years ago, Seattle, Washington faced an overwhelming garbage crisis. City planners and engineers describe how they created a recycling program that has become a model for the nation. Viewers will see, from beginning to end, how the recycling process gets done. Percents, Fractions
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