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This 32-page paper, provided by the Georgia Institute of Technology, discusses the Invention Studio and its primary uses and impacts on students. "The overarching goal of Georgia Tech's Invention Studio is to provide a place--a maker space--for students to apply classroom theory to, or simply mess...
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This 18-page paper, provided by Georgia Institute of Technology, discusses the InVenture Challenge, a competition for Georgia Tech undergraduates. "The InVenture Challenge seeks to bring design, engineering, invention, and entrepreneurship to K-12 education by providing a framework, curriculum, and...
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These presentation slides, provided by Georgia Institute of Technology, discuss the InVenture Challenge, a competition for Georgia Tech undergraduates. "The InVenture Challenge seeks to bring design, engineering, invention, and entrepreneurship to K-12 education by providing a framework, curriculum,...
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These learning resources, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, are all part of a modular learning activity (MLA) on sharpening edged cutting tools used in the construction of acoustic guitars. The goals of this MLA is to "guide the student to an understanding of the basic, physical science...
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This 11-page lab activity is provided by AgroKnowledge and focuses on the scientific method and the food system. During this activity students will brainstorm ideas for conducting a scientific investigation of the food system, develop a hypothesis, design an experiment to test the hypothesis, and...
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This course is intended to help students learn about components, circuits, and the use of electronics. Users may explore the contents in any order. Sections include components, data sheets, signals and other related topics.
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In this activity, students will collect and use solar data to compute, using angular velocity, the Sun's rotation period. This lesson is intended for grades 6-12.
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This Web site features a series of animations showing the operation of a vortex flowmeter that is used to measure flow in a process control system. Besides defining a vortex flowmeter, a Flash animation shows how it causes vortices around a blunt object obstructing the flow. A sine wave flow is...
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This 48-page resource, developed by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), is one of three modules that cover optics and lasers in the biomedicine field. This module "covers medical lasers, beam delivery methods, laser types used in medicine, lasers in dermatology, lasers...
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This site offers a variety of lesson plans, hands-on projects, multimedia presentations, and other STEM resources for middle school and high school teachers that can be used in the classroom. The lesson archives section includes resources in the areas of mathematics, finance, science, social...
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