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National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Jell-O® Waveguide and Power Loss

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Jell-O® can help model the transmission of light through fiber optic cables. Young scientists use the jiggly dessert to make a waveguide to transmit a laser beam from one point to another. Their models help them learn the function of...
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Interactive
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Stopping Mosquito-Borne Disease

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Fifty million people catch dengue fever each year. Understanding the transmission and symptoms of this disease helps people prevent and treat it. Learn about multiple intervention strategies and view graphs of their effects to stop the...
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Activity
NASA

Build a Relay Inspired by Space Communications

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Learn how the professionals at NASA send information across space. Engineers use a microdevice, laser pointer, and mirrors as relays to model data transmission in space. Scholars program a microdevice to detect light received and test...
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Science 4 Inquiry

"Something Old, Something New..."

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Young scientists learn about DNA replication through a video and model creation. They answer analysis questions before exploring the role of mutations and then complete a summative assessment.
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Curated OER

Viruses

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A fliud exchange activity using pipettes/droppers to exchange fluids with at least 3 people. your learners are advised not to spill any liquid. Droppers are collected in a large beaker, and students return to desks while holding tubes....
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Curated OER

Amelia Earhart - Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Examine the life of Amelia Earhart with kids. They will read facts and view a timeline about Earhart's life. They will work in groups to read the last radio transmissions and draw conclusions about what happened in her disappearance and...
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Worksheet
Student Aware Communications

Auto Mechanic’s Search

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
From air conditioner and body work to thermostat and transmission, the terms used in this simple word puzzle cover a range of vocabulary related to auto shop and automotive technology.
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Curated OER

Mathematical Modeling, Circular Movement and Transmission Ratios

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students perform an experiment with different sizes of followers (from an easy to follow set of teacher directions) and record their observations. They test the rotations of the driver compared to the rotations of a follower and put the...
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Curated OER

Transmission of Electricity

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine why electricity is distributed at high voltage and the functions of transformers.  In this electromagnetism lesson students study at what frequency electricity is distributed. 
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Curated OER

Handwashing

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Learners experiment in order to determine proper ways to disinfect hands to prevent the spread of infection.
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Code.org

Sending Bits in the Real World

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A bit optional. How do computers transmit in the real world? Pupils research a device that is used in transmitting bits, then individuals create a poster that presents the information they have learned about their device. 
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Curated OER

Get the Picture!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Astronomers practice downloading data from a high-energy satellite and translate the data into colored or shaded pixels. As a hands-on activity, they use pennies to simulate high-energy satellite data and they convert their penny...
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Curated OER

Tuberculosis Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Reasearch the transmission of tuberculosis and design a communication product to help youth understand the risks of the disease, how it is tested for, and the benefits of proper treatment. This project incorporates language arts, math,...
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Curated OER

Illness and Prevention

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders set personal health goals for preventing illness, identify different pathogens and explain how the body protects itself from pathogens, discuss ways in which prevention and transmission of disease are affected by...
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PPT
Curated OER

Telecommunication: Sound Waves

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Some interesting diagrams here will pique your students' interest as they discover what is actually inside the telephone that they use every day! The frequency and amplitude labels then lead to further details about sound and waves of...
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Curated OER

Disease Hits Home

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are provided with the name of a disease, and using library and internet facilities, are asked to explore and explain the route of transmission of this disease in their specific case study. Familiar diseases are then categorized...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Translating Digital Graphics

For Students 9th - 10th
In this technology learning exercise, learners translate digital graphics using prime numbers. They rewrite the codes as sentences. There are 4 transmissions to be decoded with some hints.
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Curated OER

Solar Cooking

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners experiment with a virtual solar cooker to discover the mathematical relationship among reflection, transmission and absorption. Then they actually build and test a solar cooker of their own invention.
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Curated OER

You Gave Me What?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners see how an infectious disease such as AIDS may be quickly transmitted throughout a population. They conduct a simulated transmission of an infectious disease and mathematically determine the number of possible infected individuals.
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Curated OER

Geneticist for a Day

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss and compose a document discussing the transmission of the Huntington's gene- dominant or recessive, sex linked, etc. Additionally, they ought to consider Dr. Wexler's own odds for contracting the disease.
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Curated OER

Straining to Understand Viruses

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students examine the differences among the strains of deadly viruses and create research-based visual displays about the origins of different strains, transmission, symptoms, treatments and historic impact of specific viruses.
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Curated OER

Nerve Cell Informercials

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research the structure and function of the nervous system. They prepare a model or representation of neural transmission. Students create an infomercial about nerve cells.
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Curated OER

Can You See the Light?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners investigate the transmission of light energy. In this light energy lesson, students observe bubbles using different colored filters and record their observations. They also look at a light source through various materials and...
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Curated OER

The Domino Effect

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students model the transmission of neural impulses with dominoes. In this nervous system activity, students construct a device with dominoes. They use the device to model the way a nerve impulse is propagated from dendrite to axon.

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