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This presentation, created by Louse Yarnall of SRI International, provides an overview of how support was provided for classroom implementation of problem-based learning (PBL) in a STEM workforce course. "Educators find PBL challenging to implement because it requires tradeoffs around classroom...

This 11-page document, provided by the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), discusses six contextual teaching and learning (CTL) strategies, including their goals, examples, and "challenges" that help instructors implement them. When conducting CTL, instructors must identify...

This collection from the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center (CREATE) is composed of teaching materials that highlight a lesson on the Solar Pathfinder. "The Pathfinder is an instrument that was developed to determine whether or not a given site is...

Description: These course materials, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), are resources that can be used to teach the basics of semiconductor materials and devices to students pursuing an Associate of Applied Sciences degree in electronics technology. Topics covered...

This lab activity is provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC) and is intended to demonstrate, through reverse engineering, some of the features electronic devices need to perform. This activity includes the following sections: Purpose, Systems Rationale, Systems Concepts,...

This 10-page resource, made available by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is a laboratory activity from the Solid State Devices course designed to "introduce the student to Switch mode power supplies." The following sections are included: Purpose, Systems Rationale, Systems...

This 36-page resource, developed by the National Center of Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), is one of three modules that cover spectroscopy and environmental monitoring. This module "covers spectroscopic techniques, pollution, common pollution problems, laser-based gas sensing, global...

This 39-page resource, developed by the National Center of Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), is one of three modules that cover spectroscopy and environmental monitoring. This module "covers general and specific types of spectroscopy, an overview of common spectroscopic instruments, remote...

This 2-page document, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is a template for the Project's learning activities. The following sections are included and can be updated as needed when designing learning activities: Title of Activity, Description of Activity, Learning Objectives, Standards,...

This project, led by the Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD), and funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Vocational and Adult Education under cooperative agreement with the League for Innovation in the Community College, is building on the work of the College and...