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This activity, from the Technological Education Pathways Partnership (TEPP), leads students in a teardown of a remote control to examine transmission function and signal analysis in the device. Students examine the circuit board and transmitter components in a simple DVD player remote, led by...

Students will create a visual representation of the diverse spectrum of root depths of biofuel crops and prairie plants in this activity using raffia ribbon. The resulting wall hanging can facilitate discussion on carbon sequestration in plants and plant contribution to carbon in soil. This Root...

This resource, published by Georgia Tech Research Institute, features a mathematics and decision making activity designed for eighth graders. In this activity, students use simulations, data visualization, and computational skills to craft product reviews for helmets. Additionally, they will and...

This poster, from Tammy K. Baldwin and Michelle Hall Wallace, introduces an experiment on spatial ability. This experiment aimed "to evaluate change in students' spatial skills as a result of completing an earth science course." The study results show "an improvement in spatial skills for all groups...

This resource, published by Georgia Tech Research Institute, features an engineering activity designed for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. In this activity, students work with partners to design a cell phone holder for their partner's phone using a 3D modeling software. Each student will have to...

The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) contains an electronic version of a print newsletter concerned with energy utilization and technologies in the Third World. The research and publications areas of the site allow users to search for keywords and then download full articles related to energy...

This site, supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the American Society for Cell Biology, is a resource database of cell images, videos, and animations for use in research, education, and training. The historic and modern...

Gel Electrophoresis, designed and run by the University of Utah, is an interactive program that allows the student to learn and practice basic techniques that molecular biologists use every day. This program is an interactive animated procedure that allows the user to "see" DNA strands and instructs...

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, covers the general concepts of size and scale by discussing the micro and macro worlds. The activity focuses on using scale bars as this is "the most common feature when presenting nanoscale structures or naonoscale...

The NCSR Pictorial Series of presentations are designed to provide faculty, teachers and other natural resource professionals an informal PowerPoint presentation on selected environmental settings. The presentations consist of pictures of the natural environment and feature plants, animals and...