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This page from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources provides a number of classroom resources on topics like rocks, minerals, fossils, general geology, glaciers, earthquakes, historic geology and more. Clicking on a topic area will lead users to a webpage with resources...

This 35-page module, developed by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), discusses the role of optics and lasers in optoelectronics. This module "covers an overview of quantum, the use of photonics for fabrication of nanostructures, photonics for characterization, and...

This 36-page module, developed by the National Center of Optics and Photonics Education, discusses the role of optics and lasers in optoelectronics. This module "covers photonics devices in atomic force microscopy (AFM), measurement methods used in AFM, modes of operation of an AFM, applications of...

This 78-page resource, developed by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), is a lab manual intended for high school students taking an introductory phonotics course. This manual "provides a wide variety of experiments that give students a hands-on approach to learning basic...

This 31-page module, developed by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), discusses the role of photonics in photovoltaics and solar energy. This module "covers an introduction to solar cells, photovoltaic modules, solar collection, electrical behavior of photovoltaic's...

This 50-page resource, developed by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), is a curriculum guide intended to support the implementation and teaching of Photonics Systems Technicians (PST) courses. This guide "provides assistance to faculty who will be developing...

This 6-page resource, from the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the physics of music waves. "This activity will help the student understand how the tension of vibrating components and the length of vibrating components on a stringed instrument affect the instrument's pitch." Students will also...

This lesson plan from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry explores the history of piezoelectricity, with hands-on examples of how it’s used, models of why it happens, and how it is applied in nanotechnology. Pressing on the piezoelectric buzzer in the background causes a current to flow and...

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. This lesson uses GIS and remote sensing...

This video from CUNY Kingsborough Community College describes the technique of preparing an Agarose Gel. The video describes the process step by step and would be easy to replicate in a laboratory setting. Running time for the video is 3:10.