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This activity for middle school students from the Florida Advanced Technological Education (FL-ATE) Center teaches students about melting points and emulsions while learning to make their own chocolate. This page includes two lesson plans: Create your own chocolate and Which type of chocolate melts...

This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances especially when the cultural or social...

This page, from the The Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning (CIRCL), offers information on collaborative learning and its use and benefits in the classroom. The overview section specifically addresses the use of technology to promote collaborative learning among students, including "the...

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 web page is provided by West Texas A & M University and contains 59 pre-algebra and algebra tutorials. Topics include How to Succeed in a Math Class, Integer Exponents, Radicals, Polynomials, Simplifying Rational Expressions, Linear Equation in One Variable, Quadratic Equations, Absolute Value...

This lesson, from the Northern Wyoming Community College District, focuses on geology and the earth's structure in the context of locating and extracting natural resources. Using specially prepared cupcakes, student learn about the earth's geologic history through drawing and labeling rock layers,...

This 4-page guide, from the Minnesota State Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence, is a step-by-step outline for hosting a manufacturing community tour. A community tour is "a group of manufacturers in a city or region com[ing] together to organize tours for the public." This guide includes...

This learning activity will provides a lesson on "the effect on strength and stiffness of a material when it is manufactured as a composite." Popsicle sticks are used to demonstrate the difference between singular materials and composite materials. The activity is meant for students to understand...

This activity for middle school students from the Florida Advanced Technological Education (FL-ATE) Center challenges students to "come up with a NEW appealing juice container, one that will help sell their product. During this lesson, students will use math, science and engineering to work through...

These projects, collected by Cornell University's Cornell Science Inquiry Partnerships, were developed by graduate and undergraduate students at Cornell University, collaborating with middle and high school teachers through the National Science Foundation's GK-12 Fellowship Program. The full...