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This resource, published by the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Support (NACK) Center at Pennsylvania State University, is an 11-page guide for a lab activity where students synthesize and perform spectrophotometric analysis on silver nanoparticles. During the lab, students...

This resource, provided by Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Support Center (NACK Center), is a 12-page guide for a lab on silver nanowire synthesis and characterization. Throughout the lab, students will investigate the synthesis of silver nanowires, gain experience in nanoscale...

This video from Laser-Tec is part of a series of light and optics experiments. This lab explores simple periscopes, which are optical systems used in marine settings. The experiment provides a real-world example of the refraction and reflection of light, as well as the use of lenses, prisms, and...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this lesson plan for students learning about polymers. The module will "explore the change in physical properties of a polymer as a result of cross-linking. The result of adding more cross-linking agents to a polymer is...

This five-page instructor guide from Edmonds Community College outlines a laboratory activity that demonstrates plastic flow vs. elastic flow behaviors, hydrogen bonding, and viscosity to students using slime in one class period. This "simple polymer demo applies to metals, ceramics, and composites."...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, introduces students to "some of the challenges of making semiconductor chips and waveguides." These parts of electronic circuits will help students to understand the role of nanotechnology and nanofabrication processes...

This collection from the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center (CREATE) is composed of teaching materials that highlight a lesson on deep cycle batteries and charge controllers. After the lesson, students will be able to predict, measure, and explain electric...

This collection from the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center (CREATE) is composed of teaching materials that highlight a lesson on the solar design software Helioscope. Helioscope uses a web based interface to create 3D models for shade analysis and helps...

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, covers the concept of solar ovens. In this lesson, students will learn how "thermal energy flows from the hot air to the cold water via conduction and will indicate that this would continue to happen until the water...

This collection from the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center (CREATE) is composed of teaching materials that highlight a lesson on the performance of solar PV modules. The collection is composed of five documents and a video. The documents include an...