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DeafTEC provides this resource with strategies and ideas for working with support services in a mainstreamed classroom with a mix of hearing, deaf, and hard-of-hearing students. Six topics are included such as First Day of Class, Interpreting, Tutoring, Notetaking, and Live Captioning. Each topic...

DeafTEC provides this resource with strategies and ideas for teaching in a mainstreamed classroom with a mix of hearing, deaf, and hard-of-hearing students. Twelve topics are included such as First Day of Class, Pace, Complexity, Visuals, Attention, and Point of Reference. Each topic includes a...

This collection of classroom activities from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a useful stop for biology educators teaching topics such as stem cells, viruses, evolution, biodiversity, heredity, and molecular biology. Each activity accompanies a particular HHMI lecture series, all of which can...

Module Description: This learning module, from Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), covers major developments and applications of biological microelectromechanical systems (BioMEMS). "There are three activities included that provide further exploration of these applications, how they...

Module Description: This module, from the Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), provides an introduction to BioMEMS including the emergence of BioMEMS into MEMS technologies and the major characteristics of BioMEMs. "This learning module explains what "BioMEMS" are and how they are used...

Module Description: This module, from Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), provides "introductory material on various Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) that are being designed or currently being used for therapeutics." This module is divided into the following four units: Knowledge...

Module Description: This module, from Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), provides "an overview of biomolecules, what are they, types of biomolecules, and how microtechnology is using biomolecules or exploiting their functions for micro and nanosized transducers, sensors and...

This high school-college level activity screens for cellulase-producing microbes from environmental samples of the students' choice. Students prepare samples, isolate them on selective media, and screen for cellulase activity. Two methods are provided, one focusing on isolation of pure microbial...

This 23-page document from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC) provides educators in environmental education with an activity that explores brownfield areas. "This activity presents a town meeting, with students acting out the roles of stakeholders." A brownfield site in...

This collection from the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center (CREATE) is composed of teaching materials that highlight a lesson on building a passive solar home. Home energy load profile and variables that affect it are highlighted. The collection is composed...