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Nanotechnology is an area of science and engineering that occurs at the atomic and molecular level. This is certainly a difficult concept to grasp. This website, presented by The National Infrastructure Network, highlights many critical concepts to understanding this smaller scale. By using a...

This website provides information pertaining to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Fab Labs; Fab Labs, an abbreviation for Fabrication Laboratories, are the educational outreach component for the Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) at MIT.  A Fab Lab is a technical prototyping...

This paper, by Michael Gray, a middle school technology education teacher, and Michael Daugherty of the Department of Technology at Illinois State University, covers enrollment factors in technology education programs. The paper covers the authors' study "to identify effective recruitment techniques...

Faraday's Electromagnetic Lab, created by the University of Colorado, allows students to play virtually with a bar magnet and coils to learn about Faraday's law. Students can move a bar magnet near one or two coils to make a light bulb glow and view the magnetic field lines. A meter will show the...

Light a light bulb by waving a magnet. This simulation of a Faraday's Law is from the Physics Education Technology website of University of Colorado. It is accessible for teachers and students alike. Included are links to related topics and additional ideas and activities for teachers to use.

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. In this episode of ATETV, wind energy technology, architectural technology, and internships are discussed. Community colleges provide hands-on experience in emerging fields such as green energy and...

The North Carolina Community College System BioNetwork's interactive eLearning tools (IETs) are reusable chunks of training that can be deployed in a variety of courses or training programs. IETs are designed to enhance, not replace hands-on training. Learners are able to enter a hands-on lab...

This high school or beginning undergraduate level lab demonstration and inquiry activity will introduce students to the process of fermenting cellulosic biomass into cellulosic ethanol, along with the challenges researchers face in this area. The demonstration uses a Vernier probe or balloons to...

Optical fibers transmit light signals and are widely used in the telecommunications industry to transmit data over long distances. Light travels through the core material of an optical fiber by essentially repeatedly bouncing off the cladding material that surrounds the core. Understanding...

Students will discover the relationship between biofuel crop production and invertebrate biodiversity in these field investigations as well as the "effects those organisms have on pollination rates and weed seed predation." Instructors will have the option to choose from six field-sampling methods...