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This website offers interactive tutorials, videos and instructional activities designed to help students explore how researchers use bioinformatic tools and biological data to make new discoveries. Tutorials include DNA Barcoding, Exploring how plants respond to drought using Microarrays, an...

This video from CUNY Kingsborough Community College describes diluting bacterial cultures. The brief demonstration is described step by step and would be easy to replicate in a laboratory setting. Running time for the video is 4:50.

This virtual lab from the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah provides an overview of DNA extraction, including what it's used for, illustrations, and an activity using cheek cells and laboratory equipment to isolate DNA. The lab is followed by a classroom activity that allows...

This video, from the Rubbermaid company, demonstrates a plunger which never gets wet. The plunger uses a nanotech coating to stay clean and dry. The video demonstration will help to facilitate discussion about the everyday applications of nanotechnology as well as how this plunger works. Running...

This resource contains electric vehicle 3D visualization modules created through collaboration between the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT) and another ATE Center, the Center for Aviation and Automotive Technical Education (CA2VES), located at Clemson University. CA2VES is focused on...

The University of Colorado's simulation and animation website features a number of simulations related to Electricity, Magnets, and Circuits. Topics covered by the many available simulations include balloons and static electricity, magnets and electromagnets, Faraday's Law, radio waves &...

This webpage, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is a collection of electronic wiring schematics for electric guitars. Schematics included on this page are: Strat Economy Kit Wiring Diagram, 2 Wire Pickup Diagram, 3 Wire Pickup Diagram, 4 Wire Pickup Diagram, Economy Bass Guitar Kit Wiring...

This is a demonstration table or interactive activity that GLBRC has done at family-style outreach events such as Science Expeditions at UW-Madison. It appeals to a range of younger children, about ages 5-14 or grades K-8. It is also a useful introduction for more advanced students. Prep time and...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, was recorded at the Guitar Build Institute held at Aptos Middle School in San Francisco, California in 2018. In the video Steve Brown demonstrates filing fret ends during electric guitar construction. The video runs 8:08 minutes in length and is...

This video from CUNY Kingsborough Community College describes how to focus a compound microscope. The brief clip, available for viewing on YouTube, would be most useful for students with a basic understanding of the parts of a compound microscope and how to use it. Running time for the video is...