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This page from EuroStemCell provides stem cell resources, teaching tools, and activities to educators and scientists doing outreach. "Resources for Educators" includes EuroStemCell developed lesson plans and activities, such as a role play on taking stem cells into a clinic, stem cell stories, short...

This 2-page Every Plant for Itself activity is provided by AgrowKnowldge and focuses on plant survival. The activity is intended to strengthen student's knowledge of the key requirements of plants, demonstrate plant survival, and to explain how herbicides eliminate competition for key resources by...

This 70-page report from the National Center for Autonomous Technologies (NCAT) describes the results of the Experience STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics) event held by NCAT at the Mall of America (MoA) to generate interest in STEAM concepts, education, and careers. The...

This webpage features a wide variety of interactive science teaching activities. Each activity includes subjects and keywords, tools and materials, detailed instructions, and an explanation of the science behind the activity. Occasionally demonstration videos are featured. Sample activities include...

Course Description: Exploratory Design and Engineering II is a project-based course for seventh to ninth grade students, which focuses on skills in math, science, technology, and engineering as it applies to electric vehicles. The course, from Utica Community Schools, and developed with seed...

This hands-on activity, published by the National Informal STEM Education Network, can be used by instructors to teach electroplating. Included with this activity is a description, objectives, a video that runs 12:28 minutes in length, a handout titled Exploring Fabrication Electroplating (available...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces has launched an effort to make the nanoworld accessible and comprehensible to everyone. This booklet is an important part of the effort. LEGO bricks provide a...

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, students will learn about several chemical properties through magic sand. The purpose of this lesson is to prompt students to "explore the properties of molecular bonding, introduce students to the engineering of...

This video, created by Weld-Ed: The National Center for Welding Education and Training, is four and a half minutes long and describes the experiences of girls participating in a Weld-Ed summer camp. The camp, targeted at seventh and eighth grade girls, introduces students to welding and related...

Faraday's Electromagnetic Lab, created by the University of Colorado, allows students to play virtually with a bar magnet and coils to learn about Faraday's law. Students can move a bar magnet near one or two coils to make a light bulb glow and view the magnetic field lines. A meter will show the...