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This resource, published by Georgia Tech Research Institute, features a science activity designed for seventh graders. In this activity, students act as environmental engineers to develop a procedure that removes the largest amount of oil possible from the ocean in the shortest amount of time in the...

This lesson plan, from the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides an opportunity for students to further explore multiplication though learning about the concept of distributive property. In this lesson, students will work in pairs to draw out multiplication...

Lesson Description: This lesson is the seventh of nine lessons from the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. During this lesson, students work in groups followed by whole-class discussion to solve percent problems involving...

Module Description: This module, from Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), provides an overview of personal protective equipment (PPE) used in manufacturing and laboratory environments. The module also covers "the purpose of PPE and what type of PPE is required for different tasks."...

Module Description:  This learning module, from Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), "provides an overview of the most common photolithography process used in the fabrication of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), photolithography terminology and basic concepts." These concepts are...

This reference sheet, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, provides a valuable physical science reference sheet for high school students. Definition of terms, diagrams, abbreviations, mathematical notations, the periodic table, and other useful information is provided...

This resource, from the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, is a reference sheet for high school students. Definition of terms, diagrams, abbreviations, mathematical notations, force diagrams, and other useful information related to physics and nanotechnology are provided in an easy...

This lesson plan, from the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an exploration done with base-ten blocks. In this activity, students are paired up and work with base-ten blocks to show that the four digits of a four-digit natural number represents amounts of...

Learning Unit Description: The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) instruction. The Evaluating Post-Fire Vegetation...

Learning Unit Description:  The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) instruction. This lesson uses GIS and remote sensing...