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This lesson is adapted from PSU's GREATT lesson, Solar Power: The History, Chemistry, and Application of Photovoltaics. In this Maximum Power Point lesson, "students will investigate how to optimize the power output of a photovoltaic cell using a home-made gnomon stand. Data collected from students'...

Unit Description: FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing, has developed a series of “Made in Florida” lesson plans to prepare students for careers in manufacturing. These Lesson Plans are intended to enrich science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...

This lab activity from the Biotechnology Alliance for Suncoast Biology Educators (BASBE) explores diffusion and osmosis. It includes several demonstrations of the principles and two activities that allow the student to develop a testable hypothesis about the osmotic potential of various plant cells....

This module is provided by GeoTech Center and introduces concepts related to metadata and geospatial data. Module contents include a video recording, a PowerPoint presentation, and a quiz that reviews the content presented in the module. The Concept Module Video is a recorded PowerPoint...

This lab activity from the Biotechnology Alliance for Suncoast Biology Educators (BABSE) demonstrates how to do proper scientific measurements and the calculations associated with them. It also covers how to make a graph of data and how to interpret the data and associated graphs. It contains an...

This 5-page lesson plan, provided by Northwestern Connecticut Community College, includes an activity that has students investigate bacterial growth under specific conditions using different sources. Sources include an unwashed hand, a hand washed with soap and water, a hand sanitized with...

This 2-page lesson plan, provided by Northwestern Connecticut Community College, features an activity that expands students' "knowledge of 3D design and printing by exposing students to manufacturing of everyday objects using an injection molding process." In the activity, students examine everyday...

This resource, from the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, is a module that covers mixtures and nanotechnology. The main idea of this module is to introduce the idea to students that the classification of mixtures is based on the size of particles. Students will also be prompted to...

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, covers self-assembly of molecules. Two activities are included in this lesson. The first is "a hands-on modeling activity designed to introduce students to the area of nanotechnology and give them a basic understanding...

This video lesson, provided by the GeoTech Center, is from the eighth module of the Python and Geospatial Mapping course, titled More Python. The course is designed for experienced users of Global Information Systems (GIS) platforms who are new to programming, with the goal of teaching them how to...