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This animated game, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), tests a user's knowledge of oxidation. Topics include semiconductor oxidation, linear parabolic model, factors that affect oxidation, oxidation techniques, and inspection. The game is Jeopardy style and users can...
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This video, from the 2021 Esri Education Summit, highlights the ways in which the global pandemic COVID-19 changed the way GIS/GI Science was taught. Michael Gould, Kate Parks, Justine Blanford, and Forrest Bowlick discuss adaptions, resilience, problems, success stories, and more. Gould introduces...
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This poster, provided by National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science, describes the efforts at Norfolk State University to retain female computer science majors. The university added a course titled Introduction to the Computer Science Profession that discussed topics such as role...
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This 9-page resource, from the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on general shop safety and equipment used during the construction of an electric guitar. This resource includes an activity description, learning objectives, safety equipment needed, safety precautions, a ten question pre-quiz, and...
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These resources, provided by Hartnell College, are administrative documents that were used for the National Science Foundation Salina Valley Consortium for Sustainable Energy, Education and Research 2014 summer internship program. Documents include two intern invitation letters, a letter of...
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This webpage from the GeoTech Consortium of Western New York: Get the GIST (Geospatial Information Science Technology) Certificate provides sample GIS activities. These activities include a latitude and longitude lab, two topography and glacier feature labs, an exploring rock types using ArcGIS ...
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This resource provides an introductory activity on scanning tunneling microscopy. As the module states, "a scanning tunneling microscope is a powerful tool for observing and manipulating the atomic-scale world." The activity covers concepts such as the tunneling effect, scanning the surface, two...
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This 17-page assessment toolkit was created by SRI International to help educators broaden learning objectives to shift from content topics to student competencies. SRI seeks assessment as a path for addressing challenges in implementing the instructional technique problem-based learning (PBL). "...
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This video, published by National Academies (U.S.), provides a brief overview of their 2016 Barriers and Opportunities for 2-Year and 4-Year Stem Degrees report. Examples of barriers that prevent students from completing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM) degrees include increased...
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Module Description: This module was created by the Center for Nanotechnology Education (Nano-Link) and includes an activity for students to learn about and practice the scientific method. During the activity students will use cellophane fish to test various hypotheses about why and how the fish...
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