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This collection, made available by Clark State Community College, includes resources about weed and insect identification. Two resources are included that list insect orders to know. A document is also included that list weed identification, weed collection, and insect collecting websites.  The...

This video, presented by WGBH, looks at a high school outreach program to get students interested in plastic manufacturing by having them make plastic race cars. The students go through the entire process of design from both technical and hands-on perspectives. This video also serves as an overview...

This learning activity will be helpful for students learning about plastic deformation. Specifically, the exercise looks at plastic deformation in polyethylene, which is found in plastic sheets, bags and other common items. Students will participate in plastic deformation of a polymer, observe "...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this lesson plan for students learning about polymers. The class will observe the physical properties of various plastics for rigidity, color, density and texture. The objective of the experiment is "to test and compare the...

In this activity, presented by the Lane Community College MAPS GIS Program, students will learn the concept of a digital data viewer, and how this resource can help them learn more about plate tectonics. Students will learn terminology associated with both geology and computer aided GIS. The...

This 6-page paper, written by Jing Feng, Ian Spence, and Jay Pratt, discusses gender differences in spatial cognition. Two spatial reasoning experiments are described in the paper. The research team "found that playing an action video game can virtually eliminate this gender difference in spatial...

This learning object covers cylinders and motor pneumatic actuators. It is hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and consists of cylinders operations such as: single, duel acting, factors for cylinder speed. The program require Macromedia Flash player, and presents a very nice overall...

This learning object examines pneumatic directional control valves in two-way, three-way, and four-way valves. The presentation is interactive, as it allows the user to focus of certain valve types and cater their learning towards those. The site employs flash based animations, and also many other...

This animation, presented by the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), provides an overview of pneumatic valves and pneumatic cylinders. According to the animation, "pneumatic valves control the flow of compressed air" and have "two common features: a passageway through which air...

This is a web page with learning objects in Pneumatics. The lessons cover the topics of scientific laws & symbols, valves and actuators, pneumatic power sources, and other basic concepts.