Timber for Tomorrow
By Eco Films Inc. - 1996
The Sustainable Forest and the New Forest Economy is three, 20 minute programs written by Ray Travers, professional forester and Chair of the…
Top Gun Over Moscow
By WGBH - 1996
For half a century we feared them. Now, for the first time, meet the rugged pilots of the Russian Air Force- and take a close-up look at the…
Transcription of DNA to Messenger RNA
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Uses animation and demonstrations to show how DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA. Reveals the structure of messenger RNA and its constituent…
Transferring Charge
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Introduces charging by conduction and induction by showing how Rice Krispies are attracted to a charged rod and then fly off. Explains a Van de…
Transformers
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Explains the operating principles of the transformer and gathers empirical evidence to deduce the relationships among the important variables at…
Translation and Protein Synthesis
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Illustrates how coded genetic information in DNA is transcribed into proteins in cytoplasm. Introduces the process of transcription and examines…
Two-Dimensional Collisions
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Explores the concept of conservation of momentum in two dimensions in the context of fireworks, bumper cars, open-pit mining, and within the isolated…
Vietnam History
By Classroom Video - 1996
Suitable for modern history and Vietnamese studies this is a presentation of the history and impact of conflict from French colonialism to the…
Voltage and Voltaic Cells
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Discusses reasons for a standard half-cell potential and explains the electric potentials on the reduction half-reaction table. This table is used…
Water Through the Ecosystem
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Examines how transpiration affects climate. Explores the properties of semi-permeable membranes, and relates these to living cells. Discusses how…
Water's Physical Properties
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Calculates the amount of energy required to raise the temperatures of ice and water by certain amounts. Emphasizes the high specific heat capacity…
Water's Structure
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Reveals that water is a polar molecule, attracted to both positive and negative charges. Bohr's model explains how hydrogen and oxygen form a…
Water: The Highway of Life
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Shows how the ability of water to dissolve substances makes it the primary system of transport in living organisms. The process of diffusion is…
Wave Particle Duality
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Examines the medical use of x-rays, x-ray production, the photoelectric and Compton effects, and wave-particle duality as it applies to photons. De…
Weather Systems
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Reveals how the meeting of high and low pressure systems causes unstable weather conditions. Discusses how global conditions affect weather, how…
Woof!: A Guide to Dog Training
By WGBH - 1996
When good dogs do bad things, they aren't necessarily problem dogs, but dogs with problems. So forget the rolled up newspaper-Woof! A Guide to Dog…
Work and Energy
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Elevators, escalators and an amusement park ride explain mechanical energy transformations and provide data to calculate the work done and power…
Wright Stuff
By WGBH - 1996
Garrison Keillor narrates the all-American story of two Midwestern boys who truly believed they could fly--Orville and Wilbur Wright. While they had…
Writing and Balancing Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Focuses on early electronics. Students perform a lab demonstration to make a printed circuit board. Introduces and reviews the five-step method for…
Writing and Predicting Equilibrium for Brønsted-Lowry Equations
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996
Reactions involving polyprotic and anions of polyprotic acids can be predicated by adding the proton transfer equations together. Students test and…
A Letter To Harvey Milk
By Distribution Access - 1995
A Gemini-award winning monologue about Harvey Milk, the San Francisco city councillor and gay rights activist slain in 1978. Starring Peter Boretski.
Alternate Locus Definitions: Ellipse and Circle
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
String and tacks are used to redefine the circle and ellipse using the concept of locus. Also shown: how to find the equation of a conic, use…
Ants - Little Creatures Who Run the World
By WGBH - 1995
From vast underground caverns, working class armies pour forth to defend their highly structured communal way of life. Are these feudal societies in…
Applications and Problem Solving
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Discusses the problem solving process. Students are taught to derive equations of integral polynomial functions when given the zeros, a point and a…
Applications of Circular Functions
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Students learn how to solve trigonometric equations of primary or reciprocal functions either algebraically or graphically.
Applications of Standard Normal Distribution
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
How tall is tall? How fit is fit? Sets of data from a variety of situations are used to show why we need a standard normal curve and how and where…
Arithmetic Sequences
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Emphasis is placed on understanding the patterns in arithmetic sequences and the general term formula is manipulated to solve for a, n, tn, and d. A…
Arithmetic Series
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Develops both forms of the sum formula used for arithmetic series questions. Manipulation of the formula demonstrates how to solve for a variety of…
Binomial Theorem
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Expansions of powers of a binomial are examined from the point of view of patterns, including the link between the coefficients and Pascal's…
Binomial Theorme (Pascal's Triangle)
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
The connection between Pascal's Triangle and binomial distribution is made using a model. Pascal's Triangle is used to carry out binomial expansion…
Building Trigonometric Models: Graphing Trigonometric Functions
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Models help students understand mathematical concepts as they occur in the natural world. In this program, trigonometry is used to model…
Bullying is Uncool
By VEA Group Pty Ltd - 1995
With the aid of a dramatized section, this program aims to make a very positive contribution to combating the increasing problem of bullying in our…
Characteristics of Normal Distribution
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Characteristics of normal distribution are applied to a variety of problems involving data that is normally distributed. Problems involve topics…
Combinations
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Choices pervade our lives. From concrete examples to questions with restrictions, students count choices and solve problems involving combinations…
Combined Transformations of Trigonometric Functions
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Demonstrates different methods of graphing transformations of trigonometric functions.
Derivation and Use of Trigonometric Identities
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Viewers learn how to present basic proofs and verify identities. Highlights Pythagorean, reciprocal and quotient identities. Fermat's Last Theorem…
Describing Real World Phenomena Using Logarithms
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Decibels, the Richter Scale, pH levels and the slide rule are applications of logarithms examined via experiments, interviews and solving problems.
Development of Circular Functions
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Reviews previously learned vocabulary and concepts of the primary trigonometric ratios, degree/radian relationship and the development and…
Diffusing Hostility - Customer Service Training Scenes
By Quality Media Resources, Inc. - 1995
Diffusing Hostility - Customer Service Training Scenes is intended to provide trainers, managers and employees with powerful tools that can stimulate…
Diffusing Hostility through Customer Service
By Quality Media Resources, Inc. - 1995
This program takes a strong customer service training approach to the issue of working with hostile customers. Important communications skills are…
Division of Polynomial Functions and Their Graphs
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Historical anecdotes intersperse the teaching of long division with linear and nonlinear divisors. The concept of synthetic division is also…
Eccentricity of the Ellipse
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Orbits and sewers are just two of the examples used in this study of the eccentricity definition of ellipses. Eccentricity is defined, the shape of…
Exponential and Logarithmic Functions - Unit 3 Student Workbooks
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Exponential and Logarithmic Functions: Review and Problem Solving
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Reviews expressions, equations and graphs related to exponential and logarithmic functions. Graphs are presented as inverses, both in base 10 and…
Exponential Growth and Decay
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Through a variety of real world applications, this program explores the concepts of exponential growth and decay. Examples include carbon dating…
Factoring and Graphing Polynomial Functions
By Alberta Advanced Education - 1995
Prior knowledge of factoring, the Remainder and Factor Theorems, the division algorithm and the graphs of functions are all brought together in this…
Flour, Bread and Baking
By Classroom Video - 1995
Tailored for Design and Technology and Food Technology courses, this video traces bread production from field to finished product. The video includes…
Food Preservation
By Classroom Video - 1995
This video looks at food preservation methods and the factors that cause food to spoil. Factors affecting food preservation are examined: reasons for…