MIT BLOSSOMS

Visit the BLOSSOMS Video Library anytime to browse and download lessons to use in your classroom. Every lesson is a complete resource that includes video segments, a teacher’s guide, downloadable hand-outs and a list of additional online resources relevant to the topic.

We welcome you to join our international online community to learn more about our videos and to engage with educators worldwide who are looking for ways to enrich their students' classroom experiences and share their ideas.

BLOSSOMS @ HOME

Weekly Challenges

Week 1 | Pythagorean Theorem (Released March 23)

Week 2 | How to Outsmart a Game Show and Win a Car! (Released March 30)

Week 3 | Flaws of Averages (Released April 6)

Week 4 | Coronavirus Math Games (Released April 13)

Week 5 | Do We Really Comprehend Avogadro’s Number? (Released April 20)

Week 6 | The Power of Exponentials, Big and Small (Released April 27)

In response to the COVID-19 disruptions in education, Professor Larson and the BLOSSOMS team are creating a series of challenges for young learners. These challenges require learners to:

• Look at and think about two MIT-produced BLOSSOMS video lessons,
• Try to answer questions posed within the videos
• Write a short essay addressing the new questions we pose here.

Total estimated time to do all these things: An afternoon!

Send Professor Larson and the MIT BLOSSOMS team your short (<300 words) essay and they will respond with comments and feedback! If enough interest is shown for Week 1 the BLOSSOMS team will develop other weekly projects on different topics in science, mathematics and engineering!

Cost? Zero! Benefits to you – learning new things in STEM, not by rote memorization from lectures and textbooks, but by your own active learning, discovery, refection and analysis!

Email essays or reach out with questions about any video to blossoms [at] mit [dot] edu.