Nutrients – The Basics looks at the basic nutrients needed by our bodies to stay alive and reproduce. Each nutrient is examined in relation to its role in the body and the amount of each nutrient required for healthy living. As well, the program introduces students to the Recommended Dietary Intakes (RDIs) designed by national health authorities.
Producers: VEA Group Pty Ltd
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Shakespearean Tragedy
What is tragedy? This program offers some answers by focusing on two of Shakespeare’s best-known plays, “Hamlet” and “Macbeth”. It examines the degree to which the hero is responsible for his own fate, and scrutinizes his response to social, political and personal pressures. Designed for students who are reading Shakespeare in the classroom, the program shows them how to take into account the effects of live performances.
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Wool – A Fabulous Fibre: From the Behind the Seams Series
Wool has always enjoyed the distinction of being Australia’s most important primary resource. In this program we examine the physical structure and properties of this versatile natural fibre: how it is shorn, graded, processed and sold. We visit CSIRO’s wool technology laboratories to see the latest research into improving wool’s performance, and the Australian Wool Corporation tells us about wool’s battle on the international fashion scene against its synthetic competitors.
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Info Seeker: Methods for Successful Research
The program covers five sections – deciding on a topic, breaking down the elephant (narrowing down a broad topic), collecting data, analyzing data and writing a report.
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Decimals – the accuracy of numbers
Decimal numbers come into our lives just about every day. This program explores the world of decimal numbers where we share a day in the life of the presenter who entertains us in her own quirky way. We head to the beach and look at number lines; work out some high finance when buying an ice cream – adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimal numbers; a surf clothing shop to examine percentages; finishing up with rounding off decimal numbers; and estimating.
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Survey Savvy: Planning and Conducting a Successful Survey
This program covers a basic framework for preparing, carrying out, and writing up a survey.
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Rational numbers – we are proportional
This program provides students with a lively introduction to key concepts involved with triangles and quadrilaterals. It includes defining rational numbers as the ratio of two integers, defining rational numbers as a terminating or repeating decimal, the concept of proportional reasoning and examples of converting between decimals and rational numbers. The Mathemania style gets these foundational principles of math well and truly out of the classroom and into the imaginations of junior high school students.
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Safety in the Domestic Kitchen
With the aid of interesting personalities – Conrad and Candy – this program covers the following topics: Clothing, avoiding cuts, treating cuts, burns and scalds, lifting, golden rules for kitchen safety and hygiene.
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Integers – the whole thing
Integers are all around us and used for many different purposes. This program explores the world of integers where we share a day in the life of the presenter who entertains us in her own quirky way, taking us to a snooker hall, then to a shopping mall and finally the basketball court, demonstrating how integers permeate many aspects of everyday life. Starting with the representation of integers on a number line, the program looks at the relative size of integers, various computations with integers, estimation and the order of operations, and applications of integers.