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The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this activity to support solar energy curriculum. The goal of the experiment is to allow students to create a device to cook food with energy from the sun. The experiment teaches the procedures to build a solar cooker to use if...

This page from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) offers a set of tutorials, online tools, FAQs, and documentation to help users make full use of NCBI's bioinformatics tools. The tutorials, which target both new and veteran users, cover NCBI's BLAST and PSI-BLAST, the Entrez...

Resource Description: This resource is provided by the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources, and includes laboratory activities developed for a series of Environmental Science courses. Environment Science is a series of three courses developed by Chemeketa Community College that addresses...

Course Description: This course is provided by the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources and introduces students to aquatic field and laboratory methods. Students record data and observations field notebooks and journals. Laboratory activities include using laboratory balances, calibration and...

​​​​​This collection of resources, from the Cybersecurity Education for Advanced Manufacturing Organizations project, is a part of the nmap Scenario. This scenario is a training module that provides an introduction to nmap, a free, open-source software used in network functionality and network...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this activity to illustrate the principles of chain reactions. The demonstration uses ping pong balls and mouse traps to show the chain reaction process involved in fission. Each mouse trap is placed into a large container and...

This collection, made available by Clark State Community College, consists of educational resources about soil nutrients and fertility. Included in the collection are a soil testing lab activity, a nutrient deficiency lab activity, and a soil fertility pre-test.  The nutrient deficiency lab...

This video from Laser-Tec is part of a series of light and optics experiments. This lab explores optical alignment techniques. Equipment includes a laser diode module, laser holder, target card, blue filter, two lens holders, and alignment cards. The video recording runs 10:41 minutes in length.

This video from Laser-Tec is part of a series of light and optics experiments. In this lab, participants learn about optical filters. Participants learn how to identify primary and secondary colors, explore color mixing using primary and secondary filters, and learn about applications for color...

This five-page instructor guide from Edmonds Community College provides a laboratory activity introducing students to the properties of metals using a paper clip. In this activity, a paper clip will fail after being bent multiple times, demonstrating the concept of fatigue. Students will compare and...