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Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:47 am
by Saint_
I like to use youtube videos as a warm up for class and I've found some real doozies.

Here's one I used before a lesson on scale factor and proportions:


Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:49 am
by Saint_
And this one was for a discussion as rates:


Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:50 am
by Saint_
From a lesson on Fractals. The detail is infinite.


Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:52 am
by Saint_
Here's a connection to technology. We were studying waves and quadratics at the time. This guy controls his computer with his mind.


Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:52 am
by Saint_
This one was just for fun, I was in a good mood.


Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:54 am
by Saint_
We were beginning triple systems of equations in three variables...It was nightmarishly difficult. So I found this to lighten us up first...


Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:59 am
by Saint_
When we heard of the breakthrough with neutrinos and breaking the speed of light at CERN, my students asked me to show them how it works..


Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:01 pm
by Saint_
I try to work space into my lessons as much as possible for lots of reasons. Here's the Earth from the ISS in 60 seconds. Watch for the lightning storms!


Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:02 pm
by Saint_
A lesson on parabolas and the Earth's magnetic field yielded this:


Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:04 pm
by Saint_
We were studying exponential decay and growth, so I thought of radiation and the most radioactive objects such as supernovas...


Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:06 pm
by Saint_
Quantum trapping looks remarkably like antigravity, doesn't it?


Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:07 pm
by Saint_
Mars rover "Curiousity" weighs over a ton and is the largest x-terra robot ever made... It's on its way to Mars right now.


Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:12 pm
by Saint_
A discussion on eleectromagnetism and the formula V=IR ended up with this:


Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:23 pm
by along-for-the-ride
Great videos, Saint! Thanks for sharing them.

Saint's Smashing Videos

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 7:23 pm
by LarsMac
I think I would have enjoyed being your student.

I might have even learned something.