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This educational resource page from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory links to a variety of resources for students, teacher, and parents on the topics of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. Curriculum suggestions and hands-on projects are included...

Forest Regeneration is a field-based laboratory "that evaluates tree seedling growth and mortality and stand development as part of a reforestation project. This long-term project requires students to apply skills that are commonly used in forest management. The activity also incorporates an...

Module Description:  The NCSR Marine Fisheries Series is provided by the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources and includes ten modules. This series is designed to cover issues related to “marine fisheries with an emphasis on those species that are commercially harvested in the United States....

This 115-page guide provides a variety of laboratory, classroom, and field activities that can be used to introduce students to the concept of ecosystem-based natural resource management. The guide is divided into three, sections - Watershed Ecosystems, Soils and Ornithology. "The first section -...

Toolkit Description: This Introduction to Non-Destructive Testing and Quality Assurance/Quality Control course is from the RCNET Comprehensive Teaching Toolkit: Quality Assurance and Quality Control, and is drawn from courses taught at Chattanooga State Community College (CSCC). These courses are...

Network topology is the physical arrangement of the switching devices of a network connecting a group of computers or buildings. This brief interactive activity, by the Electromechanical Digital Library and Wisconsin Technical College System faculty, explains how and why these connections are made....

This website provides assignments collected at the Nifty Assignments session held at the annual meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). "The Nifty Assignments project attempts to gather together great CS assignments to make...

This 3-page learning activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), provides students with a field exercise that allows them to measure noise pollution and interpret the data collected. Details on activity materials, learning objectives, and more aspects of the...

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, covers the general concepts of measurement by using a pool noodle to measure objects. The activity "encourages students to consider features that are useful when developing or using a measurement tool." The lesson...

This lesson plan, from the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides an opportunity to introduce students to the real number line. In this lesson, students work individually and in pairs to create fraction strips and number lines, using base-ten blocks to...