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This chapter from the Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Handbook provides an overview of how to structure a materials science and technology curriculum. Topics include curriculum philosophy, course of study, student projects, the laboratory journal, and working in small groups. Drawings and...

This chapter from the Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Handbook provides experiments and demonstrations involving ceramics that can be used in a materials science and technology curriculum. These experiments are "designed to grab students’ attention, pull their minds from predictable...

This chapter from the Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Handbook provides experiments and demonstrations involving composites that can be used in a materials science and technology curriculum. These experiments are "designed to grab students’ attention, pull their minds from predictable...

This chapter from the Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Handbook provides experiments and demonstrations that can be used in a materials science and technology curriculum. These experiments are "designed to grab students’ attention, pull their minds from predictable everyday classroom...

This chapter from the Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Handbook provides experiments and demonstrations involving metals that can be used in a materials science and technology curriculum. These experiments are "designed to grab students’ attention, pull their minds from predictable...

This chapter from the Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Handbook provides experiments and demonstrations involving polymers that can be used in a materials science and technology curriculum. These experiments are "designed to grab students’ attention, pull their minds from predictable...

This chapter from the Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Handbook provides an introduction to the subject of the book. Topics include a definition of materials science, the relationship between science and technology, and a history of materials science. Drawings and diagrams help illustrate...

This chapter from the Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Handbook provides information on the development of national education standards for mathematics and science as well as materials science and technology specifically. Topics include the School to Work Opportunities Act, an MST course...

This 2-page document from the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison provides background information about this Math Academy course. The background information accompanies each math lesson and contextualizes the intended pedagogy of the course, student levels, and...

This collection from the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center (CREATE) is composed of teaching materials that highlight a lesson on measuring "the sun’s irradiance (radiant power received by a surface per unit of area) with an instrument used in the solar...