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.

Note: You cannot search on the words "how" or "to" in the Wikipedia search. Instead, search for "Howto", or use list of pages to view an alphabetical listing of How-tos.

Science and Teaching

• Constructing school science lab equipment
• Making up solutions
• Care of living organisms in a school

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 CO₂ 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
• How to make Biodiesel

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

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 (A Wikipedia textbook)

• How to perform CPR
• How to remove a tick
• How to aid someone who's choking (Performing the Heimlich maneuver)

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

Literature (including Reference)

• How to read a poem
• 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
• How to operate a canoe
• Cooking on a campfire
• How to catch a Pickerel

Arts and Crafts

• How to make paint look like marble

Performing Arts and Music

• 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
• For more about how to perform a specific task in linux, see Linux HOWTOs (LDP)

• For more about how to perform a specific task in Pick, see

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