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Producers: Alberta Advanced Education

  • Mon côté du message – Le guide d’exploitation

    Le guide d’exploitation est concu pour appuyer l’apprenant dans l’acquisition de strategies de communication efficaces.

  • Room For Five – Teacher’s guide

    A comprehensive teachers’ guide provides suggested activities and discussions based on segments of the video program Room For Five. The guide is free with a purchase of the complete series.

  • Occupational Environments

    Gives a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the Occupational Environments series and provides course, institution and contact information for viewers.

  • The Kingdoms

    Explains how the electron microscope has enabled scientists to probe the most elemental boundaries of life. Investigates the nature, transmission and harmful effects of viruses and notes the similarities and differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

  • Systems, Energy and Matter

    Examines how living organisms, as open systems, exchange energy and matter with their environment. Explains the absorption, transportation and waste removal of water, minerals and gases in plants and animals.

  • Maintaining Equilibrium

    Explores the concepts of equilibrium and homeostasis in living systems. Examines diffusion, osmosis and tonicity at the cellular level. Illustrates the exchange of energy and matter in open systems.

  • Conservation Laws

    Introduces the Conservation Laws. Examples of van Helmont, Lavoisier and Joule explain how scientific method led researchers to propose a hypothesis, design an experiment, record observations and draw conclusions and eventually become a scientific law.

  • Energy Transformations

    The inner workings of a grain elevator demonstrate how the kinetic energy of a conveyor is used to increase the gravitational potential energy in stored grain. This is later converted back to kinetic energy when the grain is loaded onto rail cars.

  • Efficiency of Energy Conversions

    Investigates mechanical and biological systems to determine and compare efficiencies of energy conversions. Examines real and toy cars, types of electrical power generation, and the packaging of various foods to show how to use efficiency calculations.

  • Rate of Energy Conversion

    Explains that in science power means the rate of energy transfer. Discusses the scientific application of power and how to calculate it. Investigates a number of devices that convert energy, including an electric wheelchair.