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This course is intended to help students learn about components, circuits, and the use of electronics. Users may explore the contents in any order. Sections include components, data sheets, signals and other related topics.

In this activity, students will collect and use solar data to compute, using angular velocity, the Sun's rotation period. This lesson is intended for grades 6-12.

This paper, from Scott A. Warner and Laura L. Morford of the Department of Industry and Technology at Ball State University, discusses design in technology teacher education in the United States. Warner and Morford present a study looking at both technique-based courses and synergistic courses....

This short video from the University of Cambridge introduces the field of nanoscience. The video addresses questions such as "Where and what is nano? How will it shape our future?" This video runs 17:27 minutes in length.

This resource is a 3 Act Math lesson created by mathematics teacher Dan Meyer. Each Act includes a video or an image, and a set of questions. The first video shows Dan and his friend on a beach walking towards a taco cart. During the lesson students guess who will reach the cart first. 

This paper and accompanying presentation, by Eric M. Anderman, was given for the National Research Council Board on Testing and Assessment’s Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills, Irvine, California, January 12-13, 2011. In it, Anderman critically examine how 21st century skills can be...

Lesson Description:  Toothpick Factory: Soft Skills is a hands-on activity from the Florida Advanced Technological Education (FLATE) Center and is intended to help students develop teamwork, communication, and leadership skills. This activity will also help students understand the manufacturing...

This video features Colonel David Buckman, from Air Force Space Command, discussing GPS and how it works. GPS is provided free of charge by the United States Air Force, made possible by satellites orbiting the earth that broadcast radio signals, and provides highly accurate time to enable critical...

This Web site features a series of animations showing the operation of a vortex flowmeter that is used to measure flow in a process control system. Besides defining a vortex flowmeter, a Flash animation shows how it causes vortices around a blunt object obstructing the flow. A sine wave flow is...

The NCSR Pictorial Series of presentations are designed to provide faculty, teachers and other natural resource professionals an informal PowerPoint presentation on selected environmental settings. The presentations consist of pictures of the natural environment and feature plants, animals and...