Appliance company Sunbeam responded to the Australian love affair with the café latte, by creating a new espresso machine for the home market. This program examines the role of the design, marketing and technology departments of this well known company, in developing a product that will meet market needs and expectations, as well as safety and manufacturing considerations. It emphasises the manner in which designers work in collaboration with other aspects of a business to ensure that a product is a success, as well as exploring the complete design process.
Grade levels: Adult
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Introducing Cannabis – Risks, Laws, and Habits
Cannabis is often regarded as a relatively safe, albeit illegal drug, compared with hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin. Recently however, there is a growing realization that, for some people at least, cannabis is anything but safe. This program looks at the effect of cannabis on the brain and the devastating consequences for some users.
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Introducing Tobacco – Risks, Laws, and Habits
For over 50 years now we have known that smoking kills – yet millions of people continue to court disease and death. Why? Tobacco is big business – insidious, wily and determined to hook the vulnerable, and to obscure the devastating effects of their deadly merchandise. This program delivers the facts about tobacco smoking and the effects it has on both users and non-users. Featuring international experts and a dramatized story of a young girl who loses her father to lung cancer, this program is a sobering, informative and persuasive program that addresses the root causes, laws, and short and long-term effects of this killer product.
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DC Motors
DC Motors starts by clearly and concisely introducing students to the link between electricity and magnetism and how the two can combine to produce movement. The principles of the electric motor, how useful motion can be achieved, leading to the design for a basic DC motor are carefully explained, followed by improvements to the design that lead to the production of a practical working motor. Key 3D animations provide clear, visual explanations of the inner workings of DC motors and add to the outstanding clarity and understanding that this program brings to the topic.
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Functional Properties of Food
This program explores the physical, chemical and sensory functions of many different food products. The program discusses the importance of these functions when preparing food as well as a range of complex processes that will be of great value to any senior food student. Including: Denaturation, Dextrinisation, Emulsifications, Maillard Browning and many more.
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Team Building: In Outdoor Education Programs
Most outdoor adventures throw a group of people together who barely know each other. Suddenly everyone must live together continuously for an extended period of time, make decisions and solve problems. This program focuses on how to confront some of these issues before being in the outdoors and emphasizes the importance of team building. Real life case studies will increase class interaction between students.
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The Knives are Out: Using Kitchen Knives Correctly
This information-rich program provides an overview of the use of knives in a commercial kitchen.
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Othello: New Perspectives
This program offers a close study of the relationships of Othello, Iago and Desdomona, and attempts to define the nature of Othello’s tragedy. The main characters’ private lives are seen against the background of the state of Venice, and the demands public duties make upon them. Special attention is given to the situation of women in the play. The program indicates a range of possible interpretations of Othello on stage.
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Shakespearean Comedy
This program investigates the nature of comedy by examining Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” and “The Tempest”. The presenters discuss the humour, wit and social satire in these plays, and also stress the essential seriousness of great comedy, with its power to advance moral and spiritual values. Aimed at both beginning and more advanced students, the program shows how live performances will affect their interpretations of the plays.
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Not Fatal Butt….: The Effect of Just One Cigarette
With the aid of brilliant graphics, the program shows the increase in body tension, the effect of nicotine, rise in blood pressure, slowing of circulation and the decrease in lung capacity.