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. See procedural knowledge for a discussion of what sort of knowledge is imparted, and how far it can be imparted, in how-tos.
Other types of instructional documentation include FAQs, manuals and guides. Wikipedia contains some procedural knowledge, partially listed below. For a list of how-tos related to Wikipedia itself, see Wikipedia:Help. Many additional how-tos can be found at Wikibooks:Main_Page.
An alphabetical listing of How-tos.
Science and teaching
Biology
- Apparatus for demonstrating osmosis using Visking tubing
- Bell jar model lungs
- How to distinguish a monocot from a dicot
- Nail varnish impressions of stomata
- Paper chromatography of amino acids
- Prepare an onion tissue slide
- Prepare a wet mount (microscopy)
- Testing leaves for starch
- Using water snails and pond weed to investigate the carbon cycle
- Winkler test for dissolved oxygen
- How to demonstrate osmosis
- Showing CO2 is produced by respiration using huff n puff apparatus
- Measuring transpiration with a potometer
Microbiology
Chemistry
Physics
- How to make a transformer
- Westminster motor kits
- Atmospheric pressure demonstrations
- Hydraulics demonstration
- The indian rope trick (magnetism)
- Demonstrating properties of waves with a ripple tank
- Demonstrating sound waves on an oscilloscope
- Water rockets: Demonstrating Newton's Third Law, gas laws and rocketry in general.
Computer science
Life sciences (including food production)
- How to choose your pet and take care of it
- How to tell bees from wasps
- How to breed Siamese Fighting Fish
First Aid
- How to perform CPR
- How to remove a tick
- How to aid someone who's choking (Performing the Heimlich maneuver)
See also: Wikibooks: First Aid (http://textbook.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Aid) for a textbook
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 vetch (a. k. a. tare)
- How to cultivate potatoes
- How to cultivate turnips
Cooking/food preparation
- The Wikipedia Cookbook
- The Wikipedia Cocktail Guide
- How to cook pasta
- How to make bread
- How to make butter
- How to make cider
- How to make mead
- How to make wine
- How to make starch from frosted potatoes
Language (and geography/culture?)
- How to tell the origin of an accent in English
- How to send a message to future human beings
- How to learn a language
- How to name numbers in English
Literature (including reference)
- How to read a poem
- How to find a book (http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Transwiki:How_to_find_a_book)
- How to write a DBQ
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
- Canoeing
- Cooking on a campfire
- How to catch a Pickerel
Arts and crafts
- How to make egg tempera paint
- How to make marbled paper
- How to paint walls to look like marble
- How to upholster
Performing arts and music
- How to learn lines
- How to play the violin
- How to sing a capella
Sports, games, and exercise
Miscellaneous
External links
- http://www.eHow.com has a wide variety of how-to information. You can learn everything from how to throw a curveball (http://www.ehow.com/how_1831_throw-curveball.html)to how to tie a tie (http://www.ehow.com/how_2970_tie-tie.html) to how to buy a condominium (http://www.ehow.com/how_111174_buy-condominium.html)
- For more about how to do something see the Know-How_Wiki (http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~paquetse/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?Know-How_Wiki)
- For more about how to perform a specific task in linux, see Linux HOWTOs (LDP) (http://www.tldp.org/)
- For more about how to perform a specific task in Pick-style, see MultiValue HOWTOs (http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl)
- http://www.soyouwanna.com/
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