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This 7-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the strength of steel guitar strings. During the activity students over-tighten a steel guitar string to calculate the breaking strength and then compare the breaking strength to tabulated values for common steel...

DeafTEC provides this resource which covers the top ten things deaf and hard of hearing students would like their teachers to do. The handout includes ideas and suggestions to facilitate a more accessible classroom environment for deaf and hard of hearing students. Some of the items on the list...

This 5-page resource, from the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on basic soldering. During this activity students will "learn the basics of soldering by creating a solder sculpture and testing for continuity." This activity includes the following learning objectives:  Students will be able...

Collection Description: This collection contains materials related to the CollaborATE Summer Working Connections (SWC) Introduction to Mechatronics workshop. This week long workshop is a professional development opportunity for high school STEM faculty. The workshop "provide[s] hands-on...

Module Description: This module was created by the Center for Nanotechnology Education (Nano-Link) and introduces students to superhydrophobicity. Science and nanoscience concepts covered during the module include molecular bonds, electron density concepts and molecular modeling, atomic and...

Description:  This learning module is provided by Work-Ready Electronics and covers switching power supplies. Work-Ready Electronics modules are intended to be used either independently or integrated with current electronics curricula in college programs. This module is divided into three sections:...

This collection of resources, from the Cybersecurity Education for Advanced Manufacturing Organizations project, is part of the System Hardening Basics Scenario. This scenario is a cybersecurity training module designed to introduce and reinforce essential practices for securing systems. The...

This webpage, created by the Ecological Society of America, is a web-based collection of educational resources for ecology faculty. The resources are peer-reviewed for use in undergraduate ecology education. In each volume, resources are divided into three sections: Experiments, Issues, and...

In this activity, developed by the Lane Community College Geo-STAC program​, students will "describe spatial occurrence of earthquakes and tectonic landforms. Students practice Boolean logic queries to select data and describe spatial patterns. In part two, students develop and test hypotheses to...

This role playing activity, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, covers both methods of scientific inquiry and problem solving. In this activity, students will "use the skills of scientific inquiry to uncover the most likely perpetrator of a crime, and employ a paper...