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This webpage features a 3 act math task by Dan Meyer. During this lesson, Meyer takes a piece of paper and make two different cylinders. Meyers tests which cylinder will hold more popcorn. The lesson includes two videos and a number of questions related to the volume of a cylinder. The following is...

Module Description: The Fire Ecology and Management Series is provided by the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources and includes six modules. This series “is designed to address both the general role of fire in ecosystems as well as specific wildfire management issues in forest ecosystems.” The...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this activity to illustrate the principles of energy transfer. The demonstration uses a balance, matches, soda cans and a firecracker to show how energy can transfer between light, sound, heat and kinetic energy. Potential and...

"Powers of Ten", the film made by Charles and Ray Eames in 1977, takes the viewer from the core of an atom to the edge of the universe, moving 10 times further every 10 seconds. The film is about scale and how we view the universe and our place in it. Powers of Ten is an extremely valuable tool for...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, introduces students to the concepts of scale and magnification using a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) image of a Blue Morpho butterfly wing. If educators do not have access to an SEM, images is included with the activity....

This paper, from Ann Marie Hill and Howard A. Smith, of the Faculty of Education at Queen's University, explores successful programs of technology education at the secondary level, and compares them to attributes in current research theories. Research questions, methods, and results are discussed. 

This 2-page activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, instructs students on the principles of recycling waste stream reduction. The purpose of the activity is to create a display in a grocery store to show people how to reduce the amount of trash generated by their...

Module Description: The Fire Ecology and Management Series is provided by the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources and includes six modules. This series “is designed to address both the general role of fire in ecosystems as well as specific wildfire management issues in forest ecosystems.” The...

This collection, provided by Clark State Community College, includes resources related to a precision agriculture workshop for high school teachers. Precision agriculture workshops were "designed for high school agriculture/STEM teachers to learn about emerging precision technologies in agriculture."...

Lesson Description: This lesson is the second of three in the Introduction to Agriculture unit of a precision agriculture education series provided by Northeast Community College. These lessons are intended to teach "... broad scale concepts of precision agriculture, the components that make it...