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. To view an alphabetical listing of How-tos, you can visit this Search Results page.
Computer How Tos
Appliances
- How to simulate a rotary dial on a phone
- How to use an electronic adding machine
Science and Teaching
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
- 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
Chemistry
- Flour bomb demonstration
- Flour fire ball
- Screaming jelly babies
- Cannon fire
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)
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First Aid (A Wikipedia 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?)
Literature (including Reference)
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
Performing Arts and Music
Sports, Games, and Exercise
External link
- For more about how to do something see the Know-How_Wiki
