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This web-based simulation was developed by the Environmental energy Technologies Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The simulation allows the participant to select a home, of various dimensions, in any location in the United States. Variables that influence energy use, such as...

In Fall of 2012, the Homeland Security Advisory Council created this CyberSkills Task Force Report. The purpose of the 41 page pdf report is to propose improvements to enable the Department of Homeland Security to recruit the cybersecurity talent it needs. The report also proposes "ways to boost the...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this lesson plan which will help students understand how temperature affects the conductivity, or resistance, of a variety of electrical materials and devices. The basic scientific principles of heat, metals and semiconductors...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this lesson plan for students learning about concrete. The class will "calculate the amount of water that reacts during hydration when cement becomes concrete under differing curing temperatures and observe the pH change that...

This resource, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is an animation of a CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) device and how it works. The objective of the animation is to identify the required electrical variables that allow a CMOS device to operate. An .mp4...

This animation, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), illustrates how a plasma etcher works. The objective of this resource is to describe all the steps used to load, etch, and unload a wafer from a plasma etcher. An .mp4 is also included and runs 02:31 minutes in...

In this article, the author discusses the advantages of active teaching and learning methods vs. chalk and talk traditional teaching with particular relevance for technical courses. Felder describes formats and strategies for small-group in-class exercises and producing the one-minute paper.

Alu is an example of a so-called 'jumping gene' - a transposable DNA sequence that reproduces "by copying itself and inserting into new chromosome locations." This animation from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Dolan DNA Learning Center presents Alu through a series of illustrations of the processes...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this lesson plan for students learning about concrete. The purpose of the activity is to "determine the density of a concrete sample and to learn the effect of various types of aggregates on concrete's density." The experiment...

This 6-page article, from Lisa-Angelique Lim Yuen Lie and Emil Cheong, addresses the different approaches to learning adopted by men and women. The paper examines the academic performance of male and female students at the National University of Singapore and analyzes gender differences in learning...