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This online, interactive lesson provided by Wisc-Online and the National Science Foundation explains how data is transferred through electrical conductors and the various configurations in which one can find these conductors. This slideshow goes into detail about the reasoning behind twisting cables...

This board game encourages students to examine related environmental issues and interactions related to climate change control efforts including “biodiversity conservation, water quality and sustainable agriculture.” During the game, "players take on the role of bioenergy crop farmers trying to earn...

This lecture from the iBioSeminars project is presented by J. Michael Bishop of the University of California, San Francisco. It presents how the sequencing of cancer genomes will advance the study and management of cancer on various fronts, including the discovery of causes, the improvement of early...

This page, from the University of Cambridge's Dissemination of IT for the promotion of Materials Science (DoITPoMS), offers a collection of Teaching and Learning Packages (TLPs) for use by educators and the public. These TLPs "each focus on a common materials science topic met within undergraduate...

This page, from Science Education Resource Center at Carlton College (SERC), offers a number of resources for teaching GIS and remote sensing in both the field and the classroom in order to help build "geoscientists' habits of mind, which are essential for moving from a novice to an expert...

This video, created by Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), is the first in a series of three videos created to educate viewers about weights and measures in the context of nanofabrication. This segment, which is 10:28 minutes long, covers the the history of units and systems of...

This webpage from Edmonds Community College provides a brief introduction to the topic of general materials science. "Materials science focuses on the relationship between the atomic and molecular structure of a material, the properties of the material (such as strength, electrical conductivity or...