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This mathematical operations lesson, from the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, is part of a series of seven applied electronics math lessons. This lesson applies simple mathematics for complicated situations and simple circuit terminology is introduced. It is...

This Mathematics for Construction Trades lesson, provided by the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, introduces students to converting fractions into decimals. In this lesson, students will convert fractions and mixed numbers into decimals, and then to feet and...

This lesson is adapted from PSU's GREATT lesson, Solar Power: The History, Chemistry, and Application of Photovoltaics. In this Maximum Power Point lesson, "students will investigate how to optimize the power output of a photovoltaic cell using a home-made gnomon stand. Data collected from students'...

Unit Description: FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing, has developed a series of “Made in Florida” lesson plans to prepare students for careers in manufacturing. These Lesson Plans are intended to enrich science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...

This lab activity from the Biotechnology Alliance for Suncoast Biology Educators (BASBE) explores diffusion and osmosis. It includes several demonstrations of the principles and two activities that allow the student to develop a testable hypothesis about the osmotic potential of various plant cells....

This module is provided by GeoTech Center and introduces concepts related to metadata and geospatial data. Module contents include a video recording, a PowerPoint presentation, and a quiz that reviews the content presented in the module. The Concept Module Video is a recorded PowerPoint...

This lab activity from the Biotechnology Alliance for Suncoast Biology Educators (BABSE) demonstrates how to do proper scientific measurements and the calculations associated with them. It also covers how to make a graph of data and how to interpret the data and associated graphs. It contains an...

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...

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, covers self-assembly of molecules. Two activity are contained in this lesson. The first is "a hands-on modeling activity designed to introduce students to the area of nanotechnology and give them a basic understanding of...

In this activity, presented by the Lane Community College's MAPS GIS Program, students will learn important geospatial concepts. These concepts include: scale, data layers, query, buffer and measurement. This tutorial is a building block for other GIS based lessons featured on the website. Visitors...