181. The loneliest road
The loneliest road in the United States stretches across the desert lands near to Great Salt Lake, Utah.
Supports textbook: Geography: desert, mountain; History: Native Americans; Science; biomes
Playing time: 5 min
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182. Adobe - mud brick
What mudbricks are like.
Supports: textbook Geography: settlement. Also History, most periods especially in semi arid areas.
Playing time: 2 min
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183. St Louis
The history of the gateway to the west city of St Louis on the Mississippi and its relationship to steamboats and the Oregon Trail.
Supports: textbook History: American frontier; Geography: rivers.
Playing time: 11 min
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Santa Fe Trail
The history of the Santa Fe Trail.
Supports: textbook History: American frontier; Geography: desert.
Playing time: 10 min
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184. Colonial times in North America
The history of the early colonies in North America (from Tudor times until about 1740).
Supports: textbooks History: Tudor Age of Discovery, Georgian Times, Colonial Times
Playing time: 18 min
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185. Giraffe browsing
Giraffe in the savanna.
Supports: textbooks Geography: Biomes; science: habitats
Playing time: 3 min
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186. Leopard
Leopard in a river.
Supports: textbooks Geography: Biomes; science: habitats
Playing time: 2 min
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187. Hippo
Hippo in the bush.
Supports: textbooks Geography: Biomes; science: habitats
Playing time: 2 min
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188. Peanut germination
How to see evidence of germination even in a roasted peanut.
Supports: textbook: Plant, Creative topic: how plants sprout
Playing time: 2 min
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189. Flowering trees
How many flowering trees are near to you. All broadleaved trees flower, but some, like magnolia, flower more spectacularly than others.
Supports: textbook: Plant
Playing time: 2 min
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190. How strong are bones?
Forcemeter and modelling
Supports: textbooks Science Body and Forces around us
If you don't have a forcemeter weigh the cup shown here using a digital kitchen scale.
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191. Bendy bones
What bones are really made from!
Supports: textbooks Science Body
You may think bones are made of calcium, but you will be in for a big surprise.
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192. Bee pollination
The first flowers and the first bees
Supports: textbooks Science Plants
Try making a smartphone video like this one in a garden or park.
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193. The parts of a flower
What is inside a flower?
Supports: textbooks Science Plant
Looking for the parts of a daffodil.
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194. Adopt a tree
Adopt a tree and see how it changes
Supports: textbooks Science Plant
Looking for the way trees change each month.
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195. What's in a pond?
Many different kinds of plant in a pond
Supports: textbooks Science Plant
Simple start to understanding pond life.
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196. Tadpoles
Hundreds of tadpoles in a pond
Supports: textbooks Science pond life
Simple start to understanding tadpoles.
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197. What is insoluble?
Investigate liquids that do not mix
Supports: textbooks Science liquids
Finding out which liquids mix, and what happens when they do not.
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198. How many levers?
Investigate levers in common objects
Supports: textbooks Science forces, levers
Finding out which parts of mechanical objects are levers.
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199. What is downtown Los Angeles like?
Investigate the centre of one of the world's great cities
Supports: textbooks Geography: Where we live; States studies: California
A drive into one of the world's most famous cities.
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200. How do cereals sprout?
How cereals grow
Supports: textbooks Science: Plant; Germination
Watch cereal seeds being planted and then shooting.
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