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In this two to three week module from InTeGrate, Interdisciplinary Teaching about Earth for a Sustainable Future, "students explore short-term climate variability resulting from atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions." Units in the module are Forecasting Climate Change Variability and Change, Deciphering...

This paper, published by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, explores some of the weaknesses of ocean models for climate prediction. The author discusses what role oceans play in the behavior of climate, reviews why models still do not precisely replicate the behavior...

In this video from InnovATEBIO, Robert Martienssen explores oil production in plants and the broad introduction of high-performing palm clones that promise to reduce the land needed to meet world requirements for palm oil. Epigenetics and clones are a major component of this presentation. The...

This animation from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Dolan DNA Learning Center presents the cloning process. Visitors can view the scientific history of cloning using embryonic and G0 state cells and the various procedures used by scientists to clone animals. Watch as the process for creating Dolly...

This resource, from Northern Virginia Community College and Columbus State Community College, provides information on a series of events held to build cloud literacy and other competencies. The cloud computing series; an info sheet about virtual seminars on additive manufacturing, cybersecurity, and...

This report, from the National CyberWatch Center, outlines the results of a mapping effort performed by the CyberWatch Curriculum Task Force of cybersecurity curricula to the National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework 1.0 Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs). The goal of the study was to build a...

This collection, provided by the project Collaborative Research: Enhancing Hands-on Interactive Learning in Process Technology Programs with New Low-Cost Miniature Industrial Equipment, contains promotional materials. It includes posters presented at the 2017 HI-TECH Conference in Salt Lake City,...

This page, from the The Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning (CIRCL), offers information on technology designs for collective inquiry and their application in the classroom in order to help students "participate in a classroom community that builds knowledge and develops shared...

This paper, by Anthony Petrosino of the University of Texas at Austin, provides "a framework for thinking about the use of models and model-based curriculum in K-12 settings." Teaching with mathematical models for space and geometry, data, measure, and probability and uncertainty are all discussed.

This website from the U.S. Department of Energy features information on the organization's Commercial Building Initiative. The initiative's mission is "to accelerate the uptake of energy efficiency technologies and techniques in both existing and new commercial buildings" and therefore "reduce...