HowTo

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 documentation include FAQ, guides. Wikipedia contains some procedural knowledge, partially listed below. For a list of how-tos related to Wikipedia itself, see Wikipedia:Help.

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Table of contents 1 Computer How Tos 2 Vehicle/Transportation Operation 3 Appliances 4 Science and Teaching 4.1 Mathematics 4.2 Biology 4.3 Chemistry 4.4 Physics 5 Life Sciences (including Food Production) 6 Gardening/Agriculture 7 Cooking/Food Preparation 8 Language (and Geography/Culture?) 8.1 Literature (including Reference) 9 Extra-curricular activities 9.1 Outdoor Activities 9.2 Art and Craft 9.3 Performing Arts and Music 9.4 Sports, Games, and Exercise 10 External link

Computer How Tos

• How to write a Java applet
• Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials

Vehicle/Transportation Operation

• How to drive safely

Appliances

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

Science and Teaching

• Constructing school science lab equipment
• 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

Chemistry

• Flour bomb demonstation
• 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 tell bees from wasps

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

• 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 starch from frosted potatoes

Language (and Geography/Culture?)

• 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

Art and Craft

• How to make paint look like marble

Performing Arts and Music

• How to perform in a play
• How to learn lines
• How to rehearse
• How to play the violin
• How to sing a capella

Sports, Games, and Exercise

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

External link

• 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)