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This webpage from Edmonds Community College provides a brief introduction to a number of core materials including ceramics, composites, concrete, electronic/optical, metals, polymers/plastics and wood.

This presentation by Steven Wise of the Northwest Evaluation Association was given to the Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills, held in January 2011. In it, Wise discusses practical measurement issues in assessing 21st century skills including reliability and validity, item/task complexity,...

This page serves as an overview of the United States Department of Energy's Office of Science, which is the "lead federal agency supporting fundamental scientific research for energy and the Nation's largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences." From the homepage, users can access...

This page, from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), offers information on green infrastructure, or the use of "natural hydrologic features to manage water and provide environmental and community benefits." In addition to basic overviews of the green infrastructure and its social...

This website, the homepage for the Environmental Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, provides information on environmental issues to students, faculty, and staff. It also includes descriptions of campus learning experiences for students, assesses the environmental performance of the...

This collection of factsheets from the University of Michigan's Center for Sustainable Systems is designed to inform students, teachers, business professionals, and policy makers on a variety of topics that affect the environment. Factsheets are updated annually and peer-reviewed. "Each factsheet...

The UVM Environmental Safety site presents news, information, and services to support health and safety of laboratory personnel. While some of the site is geared toward UVM researchers, there is plenty of free information about chemical safety, biosafety, and waste disposal useful to students,...

The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) “is a multidisciplinary association where professionals from all parts of the spatial data community can come together and share concerns and ideas.” URISA connects the GIS community through webinars, workshops, publications, a career...

In this professional development video adapted from Getting Results, a student and a microbiologist talk about the student’s job-shadowing experience in a biotechnology lab. The microbiologist explains how the experience exposes the student to the profession, thus, helping her make decisions about...

In this professional development video excerpted from Getting Results, a community college instructor explains how he reviews a test with his students by having his students work in groups to discuss answers. The instructor explains that while tests can reveal to him what hasn't been grasped, this...