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This site features interactive tools related to The Nature of Things television show. The tools include different videos and descriptions of a wide variety of subjects. Some examples include biomimicry, human illness, indoor pollution, and other issues affecting humans. 

In this laboratory module, students will have the opportunity to explore the structure of a simple rubber band in this easy and quick in-class activity. Students will also observe the behavior of rubber bands when stretched and when contracted. The module is about 30 minutes long, appropriate for...

This wikibook on nanoscience and nanotechnology gathers information about the various tools, methods and systems to provide students, researchers and everyone else an open-source handbook and overview guide to this vast interdisciplinary and expanding field - a book that can be adjusted as new...

This video, made available by the Northeast Advanced Technological Education Center (NEATEC), is part of the NEATEC Electronics II Series from Professor Roger Young. This video describes the operational amplifier and runs 20:48 minutes in length.

The Physics Classroom site is an online portal for introductory physics students. The tutorials were originally developed for physics students at Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, Illinois. The 13 tutorials cover basic physics topics using informative graphics and an easy-to-understand...

This video, made available by the Northeast Advanced Technological Education Center (NEATEC), is part of the NEATEC Electronics I Series from Professor Roger Young. This video describes the PN junction, the boundary or interface at which two types of semiconductor materials make contact with each...

This video, from the 2021 Esri Education Summit, highlights three presentations about GIS projects in education. In the first presentation, Curby Alexander describes the use of ArcGIS for a longitudinal study of urban turtles. Curby explores the project, converting data into ArcGIS, visualization,...

This learning object, created by Terry Bartelt of the Wisconsin Online Resource Center, focuses on reflected load in a transformer. This employment of Flash allows users to interact with the presentation. Overall, this is a nice introduction to the basics of this specific topic.

The Robot Archeologist is a lesson plan designed for Earth Science or Mathematics students in grades 9-12. This lesson plan was published by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) for their Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Festival 2008 (AUVfest 2008), which addressed how AUVs can be...

These learning resources, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, are all part of a modular learning activity (MLA) on sharpening edged cutting tools used in the construction of acoustic guitars. The goals of this MLA is to "guide the student to an understanding of the basic, physical science...