A couple of teenagers go to a fortune teller to find out what they will look like when they are older, they take in to account their present lifestyle. When the girl sees what her boyfriend will look like …. Medical research shows that lifestyle plays an important role in diseases and our life expectancy. Teenagers’ dietary and exercise habits, use of drugs and alcohol, do affect their predisposition to heart diseases, cancer, diabetes and other serious illnesses.
Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)
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Location
Everything is where it is for a reason. This video investigates the basic concepts of ‘friction of distance’ and ‘geographical inertia’ to explain why things are where they are. We also look at historical, environmental and economic factors that affect the location of homes, business and industry, towns, power sources, bridges, tunnels, rocket launch-pads and canals. The effects of changing technology on location are also examined.
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Logging in PNG
Examines the effects of uncontrolled logging in a tropical environment, both on the ecology and on the local inhabitants and the associated political and economic pressures from multinational logging companies.
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Knights and Castles
For five hundred years, castles held the key to power and dominated the landscape. This video looks at why they were built, life inside them and the reasons behind their demise. It covers: castles – their defense, layout, great hall, the keep, the moat; castle life – food, cooking, medicine; knights – jousting, knighting ceremony, feasting; combat and armor; war – battle of Tewkesbury( re-enactment); the end of castles – attack strategies, the advent of gunpowder.
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I Came, I Saw, I Redoxed
Cesium and his legion of Atoms set out to conquer the world. Unfortunately, he is attacked by oxygen and water. Mg, Fe and Na are oxidized. In a series of encounters/reactions many of the atoms are oxidized and reduced. We explore the activity series of metals. Cesium repairs the damage with Hydrogen, Carbon and Electrolysis.
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Persuasive Language
An informative and entertaining dramatization in which a young person, Kylie, learns some of the techniques of persuasive language at Roland’s School of Persuasion. Roland introduces the different techniques of persuasion, which Kylie then role-plays. Each of the following language techniques is illustrated with a short example : suggestive selling; emotive Language; connotations; analogies; generalizations; exaggeration; card-stacking.
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The Nature of Economics
North American Version. The economic problem arises because people have unlimited wants, but limited resources with which to satisfy them. We investigate the characteristics of wants and resources, and the principle of Opportunity Cost, and it’s application to everyday life.
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Impacts of Globalization
This video investigates: economic growth and development; contrasts in levels of development in the global economy as outlined by the United Nations Human Development Report, and reasons for the differences; international convergence (the move towards market economies); the role of trade, investment and trans-national corporations in the global economy; environmental consequences of globalisation.
Case Study – The impact of globalisation on the Republic of Ireland, and the strategies that are being used to promote economic growth and development. -
Conflict in Indochina
Why was the US in Vietnam, and why did they lose the war? This video deals with outcomes of the 1956 Geneva conference,”Americanisation”, strategies and objectives of both sides, the assassination of Diem, the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, the Tet Offensive and the “Television War”, “Vietnamisation”, the peace movement, the peace agreement, the withdrawal of US troops, and the collapse of the South.
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Infectious Diseases
This comprehensive two-part video examines our knowledge of the causes and controls of infectious diseases. The contents include: historical introduction; causes of infectious diseases; disease agents; disease transmission; controlling infectious diseases; the response to infection; vaccination; disease prevention; treatment. The video ends with a cautionary note about the ongoing challenges we face in managing infectious diseases around the world.