The Body in Motion: Fitness, Skill, and Training
Before starting any physical fitness routine, it is important to determine what areas need attention. In this program, viewers will learn practical tests that measure the health-related and skill-related components of fitness, how to apply the FITT ...
Using Microbes in Food
Microorganisms can cause harm in the form of diseases, but they also have beneficial uses—and not just in medicine. This program explores various ways that microbes are utilized in food preparation and production. First highlighting the naturally ...
The Body in Motion: Influences on Movement
How can biomechanical principles be used to enhance physical performance? This program explains how to calculate velocity, acceleration, and momentum involving major types of bodily motion; distinguishes between two types of balance while discussing...
Factors of Design 2: Time and Money
Working on schedule and within a budget is crucial in the fast-paced world of design, where success often depends on timing and products must be priced affordably. This program shows how the factors of time and money affect the design process. Case ...
Mobile App Research and Planning
The process of bringing a successful app to market begins long before the actual software is developed. As with any endeavor that fuses commerce and creativity, the app usually starts with a spark of inspiration and gets fleshed out through market r...
Forensic science in action: from crime scene to courtroom
What happens when a deadly crime takes place and law enforcement puts all of its scientific resources into action? Can forensic science really solve a murder? This program follows scientists through a dramatized investigation, from the discovery of ...
Data Mining: Big Data's Increasing Challenge and Payoff
Just as raw materials buried in the Earth yield the occasional gem, raw data can also be mined for value. And as the amount of information available for analysis grows with every bar-code scan and Facebook post, the world of Big Data represents a se...
Renewable Fuels
Besides the well-documented ecological harm that fossil fuels inflict, they have another drawback: our planet is running out of them. What will we use in their place to heat our homes, power our vehicles, and light our cities? This program studies t...
Emerging diseases: prions and viruses
In an increasingly global society, disease outbreaks are on the rise - and so is the need for epidemiology expertise. This program introduces students to vital information regarding the transmission, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, vectors,...
Developing a Design Brief
Featuring helpful case studies, this program introduces skills and methods used in the preliminary, developmental, and theoretical side of the design process. Students are shown how two product designers research, experiment with, and communicate cr...