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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...

This video, created by Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), describes a biomedical application of MEMS technology. This 5:08 minute long video describes "how a microsystems array is used in the retinal prosthesis to stimulate cells in the retina that talk to the brain via the optic...

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 Zener diode, a special type of diode that allows current to flow in the reverse direction when the voltage...

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 Thevinin's theorem and runs 23:52 minutes in length.

This website, created by MakerBot Industries, hosts the 3D design community Thingiverse. Thingiverse is a collection of 3D printed models, uploaded by users, and made freely available for others to use and customize. The various 3D objects files can be browsed via the explore tab on the website....