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This resource, provided by Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Support Center (NACK Center), is an 18-page guide for a lab on the identification of minerals. In this lab, students will conduct experiments to determine mineral properties and identify an unknown mineral. The lab guide...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this experiment on forming low temperature glass. The module will allow students the chance to form low temperature glass and test for electrical conductivity. The lesson includes a step by step explanation of the laboratory...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this activity to look at the ways in which energy is released in chemical reactions. The class will examine plaster of paris, bromthymol blue and the hydration of baking soda. Students will observe the temperature changes of...

This resource, provided by Piedmont Virginia Community College, includes files for a project-based learning module that has students "build the basis for a temperature controlled system that is controlled by a simple microcontroller and temperature sensors." A module handout, an introduction...

This 3-page learning activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), provides a guide for instructors looking to give their classes hand-on experience with groundwater monitoring and sampling. The class will need access to property where at least three groundwater...

Course Description: This course, developed by the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technology Education Consortium (UASTEC) at Del Mar College, covers the fundamentals of digital mapping with Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). "The course cover[s] the full spectrum of UAS mapping from survey design to...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this activity to illustrate the principles of half-life. The laboratory is effective in showing the half life of radioactive substances. The application pertains to the length of storage necessary for radioactive materials. This...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this activity to compare the amount of energy given off in combustion reactions. The experiment has two different objectives. The first is the comparison of heat energy given off between different fuel sources and the second is...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, covers the concept of semiconductor manufacturing. Students will learn about selective layering which is used to "build up some layers of patterned material so that very interesting things start to happen, like using...

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...