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This interactive lesson from SpaceTEC's National Aerospace Technical Education Center presents an overview of the aerospace workplace. It includes videos discussing topics in the aerospace field including the history of rockets and space pioneers, the principles of rocketry and orbital dynamics,...

Module Description: This module, from Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), provides an introduction to transducers including "what they are, how they work and how they are used in both macro and micro-size systems." This module is divided into the following four units: Pre-test...

This site from the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College provides a number of resources for teachers of introductory geoscience courses. Lesson plans include topics like the history of geology, causes and implications of global change, global sustainability, physical geology and the...

This activity from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC) explores invasive species. The activity asks students to look into one invasive species and record details about their native habitat, diet, how and why the species was introduced, and more. Students then create an...

This resource, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is an animation that shows how mass affects implantation. The magnetic force of the ions can be compared to a pinball machine with three different masses. If the same impulse is applied to each ball, only the one with...

These presentation slides by Mike Qaissaunee cover information about the iPhone. The presentation includes sections on What is the iPhone?, iPhone Overview, iPhone Development, iPhone Economics, iPhone SDK, Cocoa Touch Layer, Media Layer, Core Services and OS, What's Different About Programming for...

This document provides a learning module on iron and steel for use in materials education. The lesson examines the basic properties of iron and steel and includes discussions, demonstrations and suggested optional classroom activities. The materials can be covered in one to two class periods.

In this lesson from The Lane Community College MAPS GIS program, students will find cities in the United States that are of similar size to Eugene, OR and compare attributes such as crime rate, land area, etc. using box and whisker plots. Prior to the lesson, the instructor will use a computer and...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, introduces students to the difficulty to of measuring at the nanoscale. Accuracy and precision are the most important principles or measuring at such a small scale, and with the growing demand for nanotechnology careers, an...

This 2-page lesson plan outlines how an instructor can demonstrate how a diffraction grating "separates all the constituent colors from each source and allows us to see the spectrum of the source." This lesson plan includes a short description, a list of objectives, background information, and a...