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Part of MIT's innovative OpenCourseWare Project that provides materials from MIT classes to the public on the web, this site describes the course Architectural Design, Level II: Material Essesnce: The Glass House.  Focusing on the topic of compensation for the energy transfer characteristics of...

This webinar is provided by Internet Scout Research Group and was presented by Rachael Bower and Kendra Bouda of ATE Central. The webinar introduces the ATE Central archive, the NSF archiving requirement for Advanced Technological Education (ATE) projects and centers, as well as discusses the...

This lesson, developed by Cindy Nestel of Summit Middle School, is designed to be a follow-up lesson to "Which Rare Earth Element Will Be Named 'The Element of the Year?'" The lesson serves as an integrated science and math activity, in which students analyze data about rare earth elements and read...

This 29-page paper, written by Robert I. Lerman, discusses employer-led training. The following questions are addressed in this paper: What types and amounts of skill development and especially employer sponsored traning are taking place in the U.S. overall? Is it increasing or decreasing? What are...

Presented by the Arizona Solar Center, a non-profit organization that promotes the use of solar energy, this webiste provides information about solar technologies, including photovoltaics, solar cooking, solar water heating, solar architecture, wind power. It also provides hands-on activities for...

This scenario-based instructional activity card, from the ATE 2.0: Preparing Technicians for the Future of Work project, was created to support the implementation of the Cross-Disciplinary STEM CORE Framework. This framework has the following three skill areas: Data Knowledge and Analysis, Advanced...

This 42-page resource from the STEM Guitar Project provides instructions for building an electric guitar from a kit of parts. The resource is a step-by-step process divided into the following sections: a list of parts, Preparing the Body for Finishing, Finishing the Body, Designing the Headstock,...

This presentation by Candice Odgers of the University of California - Irvine was given to the Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills, held in January 2011. In it, Odgers discusses behavioral problem assessment and ASEBA, the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessments.

This 24-page paper, provided by the American Society for Engineering Education, discusses the implementation and assessment of the Unconventional Thinking in Engineering Design (UnTiED) ideation method in a freshman engineering graphics course. This paper presents the following: Results from a...

Learning Unit Description: The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information System (GIS) instruction. The Flood Risk Assessment LU, by Barbara...