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This 6-page document, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the wave behavior of guitar harmonics. During the activity students will "model how energy transfers from the guitar string to the ear hearing the harmonic." The learning objectives for this activity are: Students...

Collection Description: This collection of STEM curriculum is provided by Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and includes PowerPoint lessons, hands-on activities, and interactive videos that can be used in a math trades class. Hands-on activities were created by welding and math instructors in...

This resource, published by Georgia Tech Research Institute, features a mathematics activity designed for sixth graders. During this activity, students model plankton and temperature data in the Antarctic Ocean to "determine whether a research vessel will collide with whales." Students will learn to...

In this 2-page activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, students collect data about their personal lives and create a pie chart. Students learn about data collection, graphing, and interpretation. This activity provides a real-world application for collecting and using...

This interactive presentation, created by Terry Bartelt for the Electromechanical Digital Library, discusses the concept: "What is torque?" Bartelt begins with a simple example of torque, illustrated using a crank, pail, and water well. After this important introduction, the author introduces the...

This activity is provided by Stanford Solar Center and explores ultraviolet light. The activity explores questions about ultraviolet light such as "what it is, where it comes from, how we can detect it, and what effects it has upon us and our Earth." The activity includes student prerequisites,...

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, covers the general concepts of size and scale by focusing on the entire classroom and the size of the students in it. The activity focuses on measuring length as this is "the most common feature when presenting nanoscale...

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, covers the conceptualization of size for younger students. Based on the book What’s Smaller Than A Pygmy Shrew? by Robert E. Wells, students start by thinking about the size of the pygmy shrew and its functionality on a...

This resource is a 3 Act Math lesson from the When Math Happens website. Each Act includes a video and a set of questions. The first video shows three different shapes being 'dumped' into three different buckets. Each bucket is then given a total value. During the lesson students guess how many...

In this 2-page activity, the from Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), students determine where the water run-off from the school actually ends up and, in the process, learn about topographic maps and surveying equipment. This activity provides a real world application of the...