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The University of Wisconsin-Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces has launched an effort to make the nanoworld accessible and comprehensible to everyone. This booklet is an important part of the effort. LEGO bricks provide a...

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 video, Published by ONUS Agronomy, shows a Zells air seeder navigating around trees while planting crops in an agricultural field. The recording runs 6:57 minutes in length. 

This site, from the National Center for Next Generation Manufacturing (NCNGM), has links to a variety of manufacturing based projects for high school and college students. Community college and technical high school educators in Connecticut participated in four- week summer externships and not only...

This activity, provided by the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), takes students on a virtual field trip that explores issues around the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, such as the path of the oil tanker, impacts of the oil spill, and more. The 12-page document includes a short...

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...