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Learning Unit Description:  The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) instruction. The Classifying Land Cover in Minnesota and...

This learning module, provided by Support Center for Microsystems Education, introduces participants to diagnostic BioMEMS, or biological microelectromechanical systems. The module presents information about the areas in diagnostic medicine that are impacted by the introduction of BioMEMS. The...

This lesson, from the Technological Education Pathways Partnership (TEPP), uses a bathroom scale to explore the load cell technology used in weigh stations on interstate highways. A Word document explains the concept of the Wheatstone bridge measure of electrical resistance, and two PowerPoint...

This resource provided by SRI International includes the Discovering Your Professional Skills student handbook and a corresponding student rubric. The 16-page handbook introduces students to professional skills for self-development. The handbook can be used to demonstrate examples of professional...

In this activity, developed by the Lane Community College MAPS GIS Program, students "use logical connectors in searching a database to understand how quickly the search narrows by adding connectors. They will translate a search in to logic notation and sketch a digital circuit. Finally, they will...

From the University of California, Davis, Partnership for Plant Genomics Education, this biotechnology laboratory is a two-day activity using the ELISA assay, a "test that uses the immune system to detect disease," to study the epidemiology of a hypothetical small scale epidemic. The lesson gives...

This lesson plan, from the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an exploration in division with fractions and decimal numbers. In this lesson, students work individually and in pairs to solve application problems using multiple methods. This lesson plan includes...

This lesson plan, from the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an exploration in division with fractions. In this lesson students work in pairs to use models, drawings, and equations to solve application problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication...

This lesson plan, from the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an exploration in division of natural numbers. In this lesson, students work in pairs to define division and conceptualize different ways of partitioning and grouping numbers. Additionally, students...

Module Description: This module, from Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), introduces participants to DNA microarrays. The module covers types of arrays, applications, interpretation, design, and fabrication. Included "activities provide the opportunity for students to gain a better...