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The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center hosts summer institutes at their Monterey, CA campus each year. This photostream, hosted by Flickr, provides some photos from the event.

In this activity, students examine the relationship between soil microbes and carbon cycling through self-designed experiments exploring “microbial respiration rates and soil variables such as temperature, habitat, soil type, and agricultural management choices.” Three different techniques for...

This 178-page textbook, developed by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), is intended for use in an introductory course on precision optics fabrication and photonics. This textbook could also be used for programs designed for retraining or updating the skills of...

This experiment, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, covers Mixtures and Nanotechnology. The main idea of this module is to introduce the idea to students that the classification of mixtures is based on the size of particles. Students will also be prompted to connect two...

The Molecular Expressions website features photo galleries that explore the fascinating world of optical microscopy. The site offers a large collection of color photographs taken through an optical microscope (commonly referred to as "photo-micro-graphs"). The Photo Gallery contains an introductory...

These slides, from the Technological Education Pathways Partnership (TEPP), lead students in a teardown activity to examine the components of a motion sensing light device. Wiring is exposed to add a manual toggle switch and then measure voltage and current. This setup can the be used to compare the...

This webpage, created by Chris Orfescu, uses art to explain the processes of nanotechnology.  Using microscopes to photograph subatomic particles, Orfescu creates nanolandscapes and nanosculptures by "manipulating matter at molecular and atomic scales using chemical and physical processes."  There...

This PowerPoint provided by AgrowKnowledge includes photographs of a homemade ethanol still. The photographs are accompanied with information on how the still was made and the materials used. Some of the materials used to build the still include plywood, stanchions, a borosilicate glass flask, a...

This resource from the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT) contains a chart describing the components of electrified vehicle systems based on the vehicle drive system. Vehicle drive systems in the chart include conventional internal combustion engine, start/stop, mild hybrid electric...

This image shows each element of the periodic table represented by a picture of something that contains that element. For example, sulfur depicts a picture of egg yolks. Symbol and color keys are included.