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Screenshot for Interactive Middle School Math Activities
This website is provided by Shodor Education Foundation and contains a series of online interactive activities designed for use in middle school mathematics. Topics include: Geometry, Algebra, Probability, Statistics, Modeling, Discrete, and others.
Screenshot for Intro to Breadboard Electronics
In this podcast, Bre Pettis shows you how to set up a breadboard for power and then play around with electronics on it. This can be used as a student project to learn basic electronics. There is an accompanying PDF, which can be found for free, at the iTunes store at MAKE Magazine.
Screenshot for Introduction to Agriculture - Understanding Basic Concepts
In this video, Dan Swafford from Virginia Tech introduces students to precision agriculture. Swafford explores basic agricultural concepts, such as crop yield, and also highlights the roles of and decision-making for plant food, fertilizers, minor elements (micronutrients), nitrogen, phosphorus,...
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This web page, from the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Support Center (NACK Center), includes introductory nanotechnology activities. These activities include "... some common and not so common applications of nanotechnology that students can relate to. In general, these products...
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This 2-page lesson plan outlines how an instructor can demonstrate how a diffraction grating "separates all the constituent colors from each source and allows us to see the spectrum of the source." This lesson plan includes a short description, a list of objectives, background information, and a...
Screenshot for Izaak Walton League of America
The Izaak Walton League of America is a national nonprofit organization that educates the public about population and natural resource consumption issues through their Sustainability Education Project. This group also works with organizations involved in promoting sustainability at the community...
Screenshot for Jet Propulsion Laboratory Free Video Resources
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers a variety of videos about the earth, solar system, stars and galaxies, and technology. Video titles include A Tresure Trove of Planets Found, Enceladus: Mystery of the Icy Moon, Spacecraft Power, Crazy Engineering: Flying Solar to Jupiter, and many more. Videos...
Screenshot for K-12 Education Plenary Session: Beyond the Tunnel
This video is the plenary session for the 2021 Esri Education Summit. In the plenary session, Charlie Fitzpatrick introduces the summit and Esri team and explores the Esri School Program. Kylie Donia also leads a participant survey with ArcGIS. The GeoInquiries Program, NatGeo Education, an overview...
Screenshot for K-12 Engineering Career Pathway Resource
TeachEngineering.org is a searchable, web-based digital library populated with standards-based engineering curricula for use by K-12 teachers and engineering faculty. The content in this resource includes activities, lessons, curriculum units, and living labs. Content can be browsed by subject,...
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Karl Kapp, a professor of Instructional Technology at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, is the author of this blog and "discusses issues concerning learning, e-learning and the transferring knowledge from retiring baby boomers to incoming gamers. The goal is to share information and knowledge...
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