Tuesday: The Science of Street Lighting
Pre-Lecture Materials
The following activities will help you to prepare for the lecture by encouraging you to predict some of the content and learn the meaning of some of the key vocabulary. Don’t worry if you find it difficult to answer the prediction questions, just thinking about the questions will help you to follow the lecture.
Once you have finished the materials, return to the main lecture page and watch the lecture.
Andrew Burke
Lecture Coordinator
The title of this lecture is ‘The Science of Street Lighting’.
Which university department do you think the lecturer will be from? When you think you know the answer, flick the switch to check.
- Physics
- Psychology
- Architecture
- Engineering
PhysicsPsychology- Architecture
Engineering
He is a lecturer in the School of Architecture.
Which of these questions do you think the lecturer will answer? Read the notes template to check your answers
(hint: only ONE of the questions is not discussed)
How are street lights made?
Why is walking and cycling good for the planet?
How can we carry out effective scientific research?
How do we do research into street lighting?
Why do we do research into street lighting?
How does street lighting affect how safe we feel at night?
What is ‘big’ data?
How much lighting is needed to make more people cycle at night?
Which of these words do you already know?
fairy stories
research methods
triangulation
participants
obstacle
tricky
beep
gaze
pedestrians
illuminate
peripheral vision
reaction time
hypothesis
credible
interpretation
Now match the words to the definitions. There are 15 words.
To check your answers, click the 'Check' button. To move to the next questions, click the blue arrow.
Now complete the sentences using words from the previous activity. To check your answers, click the 'Check' button.
Read the note taking template. This gives you an idea of the structure of the lecture and some of the main ideas it looks at.
Now look at the five stills taken from the lecture on the following slides. For each one try to predict:
- Which part of the lecture it is taken from
- What you think the picture shows
Keep your ideas in mind when you watch the lecture. Were you right?
Make a copy of the note-taking template to use as you watch the lecture. The questions and headings should make it easier for you to follow the lecture. If you type your notes, you might want to remove the underlinings before you start.
If you find it easier to take notes by hand you could copy the headings onto your paper, or make the spaces between the headings bigger (so you have space to write in) and print the template out.
If you feel quite confident about making notes during an English lecture, you might want to just read the template beforehand and then write your own notes.
You will use your notes in the post lecture lesson, so make keep them somewhere where it’s easy to find them again.
Now you can go back to the lecture page and watch the lecture. Don't forget to download and complete the note-taking template!
Andrew Burke
Lecture Coordinator
