How-to

A how-to is an informal, often short, description of how to accomplish some specific task. They are generally meant to help non-experts, and may leave out details that are only important to experts, and may be greatly simplified from an overall discussion of the topic.

Computer How Tos

• How to write a Java applet

Appliances

• How to simulate a rotary dial on a phone
• How to use an electronic adding machine

Science and Teaching

• Making up solutions
• Care of living organisms in a school

Mathematics

• How to perform Integration by parts
• How to perform Integration by substitution

Biology

• How to prepare an onion cell slide
• Nail varnish impressions of stomata
• Paper chromatography of amino acids
• Testing leaves for starch
• Using water snails and pond weed to investigate the carbon cycle
• Winkler test for dissolved oxygen
• How to demonstrate osmosis
  • Apparatus for demonstrating osmosis using visking tubing
• Bell jar model lungs
• Showing C0₂ is produced by respiration using huff n puff apparatus
• Measuring transpiration with a Potometer
• How to distinguish a monocot from a dicot

Microbiology

• How to prepare and use agar plates
• gram staining

Chemistry

• Flour bomb demonstration
• Flour fire ball
• Screaming jelly babies
• Cannon fire

Physics

• Making a transformer
• Westminster motor kits
• Atmospheric pressure demonstrations
• Hydraulics Demo
• The indian rope trick (magnetism)
• Demonstrating properties of waves with a ripple tank
• Demonstrating sound waves on an oscilloscope

Life Sciences (including Food Production)

• How to choose your pet and take care of it
• How to tell bees from wasps

First Aid

• How to perform CPR
• How to remove a tick

Gardening/Agriculture

• How to clear fields from weeds
• How to make compost
• How to use moss as manure
• Harrowing How-To
• Banishing crows from a field
• Seaweed farming how-to
• How to cultivate barley
• How to cultivate beans
• How to cultivate tares
• How to cultivate potatos
• How to cultivate turnips

Cooking/Food Preparation

Language

• How to tell the origin of an accent in English

Literature (including Reference)

• How to read a poem
• How to find a book

Extra-curricular activities

Outdoor Activities

• Hiking (see the section titled How to hike)
• How to light a fire
• How to obtain water in the wilderness
• How to operate a canoe
• Cooking on a campfire

Arts and Crafts

• How to make paint look like marble

Performing Arts and Music

Sports, Games, and Exercise

• How to avoid cramps while swimming
• How to solve the Rubik's Cube