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The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this experiment on concrete in construction. The experiment focuses on developing an understanding of concrete as a construction material. Concrete products will be designed and constructed. Students will use two different sized...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, introduces students to the temperature response of liquid crystals, and how they respond in different phases of matter. In addition to liquid, solid, and gas, the fourth phase of matter includes liquid crystals which "...

This lesson, from the Northern Wyoming Community College District, focuses on the transformation of energy from one form to another through electrical current detection and generation. Students create a model electricity generator and compare it to a real-world "state of the art" coal power plant...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this experiment on "the effect of cold-working (strain-hardening) and annealing on the ability of wires of the same metal to support a load." Students will gain hands-on experience with cold-working and annealing and get to...

This eight-page instructor guide provides an activity demonstrating the "processing-structure-property relationship" concept in materials engineering through baking cakes. By baking and comparing cakes, students observe how processing impacts characteristics such as microstructure, porosity, surface...

This chapter from the Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Handbook provides experiments and demonstrations involving ceramics that can be used in a materials science and technology curriculum. These experiments are "designed to grab students’ attention, pull their minds from predictable...

This chapter from the Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Handbook provides experiments and demonstrations involving composites that can be used in a materials science and technology curriculum. These experiments are "designed to grab students’ attention, pull their minds from predictable...

This chapter from the Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Handbook provides experiments and demonstrations that can be used in a materials science and technology curriculum. These experiments are "designed to grab students’ attention, pull their minds from predictable everyday classroom...

This chapter from the Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Handbook provides experiments and demonstrations involving metals that can be used in a materials science and technology curriculum. These experiments are "designed to grab students’ attention, pull their minds from predictable...

This chapter from the Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Handbook provides experiments and demonstrations involving polymers that can be used in a materials science and technology curriculum. These experiments are "designed to grab students’ attention, pull their minds from predictable...