This video features designs by Peter van Herk – Gloucester, NSW, Australia, designs chairs to utilize the unique strength of spotted gum; Ted Ingram – North Vancouver, BC, Canada, rustic furniture – Cylindrical mortise and tenon; Peter Milne, Sable Islands, UK, shaker furniture; Andy Fricker, Burnaby, BC, Canada, designing furniture for clients; Russ Davis, Blackheath, NSW, Australia, industrial designer making custom furniture; Ben Gray, Sydney, NSW, Australia, artist, with a boomerang chair; Jacqueline Greetham, Tripod Home, UK, furniture from recycled teak; Griffiths Table Craft, NSW, Australia, colonial furniture with dry joints.
Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)
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Furniture Design – Part 1
We visit Bevan Funnell reproduction antique furniture factory in New Haven, Essex, UK.
* use of modern technology
* designing
* cutting
* assembling
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Genres – an Introduction
Genres is the starting point to analyzing texts, whether they be literature, film or music. It is through genres we gain a context for the meaning of texts. This video introduces the viewer to the basic genres and shows how genres provide contexts for characters in fiction. Through vignettes, it illustrates the various tools to identifying a genre. The video also discusses genre as a critical concept to analyzing Film and Music. A must for senior students who want to consolidate the basic concepts about genres.
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Flour, Bread and Baking
Tailored for Design and Technology and Food Technology courses, this video traces bread production from field to finished product. The video includes flour milling, bread production and multicultural baking. An ideal companion tape to Biscuit Making.
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Fighting Meningococcal Disease
This award-winning educational video is a comprehensive and practical guide to meningococcal disease for parents, teachers, child carers, sportspeople and health professionals – clearly explaining how to recognise the symptons, what to do, and what precautions to take against this deadly disease.
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F.A.P. – Nutrition and Sport
The basis of good nutrition is balance: our intake needs to be balanced with our needs. Physical exercise increases the need for all the essential nutrients, particularly energy-giving fuels and water. In developing a nutritional plan, we need to be aware of the composition of different foods, and the demands placed on our bodies by different types of exercise. If we choose to use nutritional supplements, it’s important to understand the potential pros and cons.
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Forming and Shaping Metal
This video examines the way metals can be manipulated when making products. The three most common methods of forming that are used in manufacturing are heating, cold forming and milling. The operations that are previewed for each of these methods include the following: heating, cold forming, and milling. This program is highly recommended for students of metals and engineering at both school and tertiary levels. It can be used as a complete preview of the common methods of forming metals or as a focus on a particular method.
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Physical and Chemical Changes
A fun, animated lesson in physical and chemical changes. The atoms are looking for partners and employment. Xenon and Krypton set up as Marriage Councilor and Employment Officer and conduct a series of marriages, H to O and Na to Cl etc. A friendship or physical change is formed between iron and carbon to make steel. They find jobs for various elements, compounds and mixtures.
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Food Production and the Environment
PEACHES – Process from generation of the raw product through to processing and canning, Climate, weed & pest control, water management, & recycling factory waste. MACADAMIAS – farming, processing and value-adding. How landscapes are altered for farming, Integrated Pest Management, soil erosion controls, conflict with urban encroachment, and factory noise and waste controls.
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Fragile Ecosystems
The Pacific Islands of Palau contain some of the world’s most pristine coral reef ecosystems. The interaction between coral reefs, rainforests, inter-tidal wetlands and mangroves is explored. The indigenous people of Palau are developing management strategies to preserve the reefs. These include pollution control, fish conservation, aquaculture and ecotourism.