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Unit Description: FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing, has developed a curriculum to prepare students for careers in manufacturing. These Comprehension Instructional Sequence Model (CIS) Lesson Plans are intended to “build learners’ background knowledge in...

This 9-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the use of computer-aided design in guitar construction. During the activity students will "learn to identify part features, dimensions and tolerances on a CAD drawing, develop an acceptable plan of manufacturing...

This page from the Wake Technical Community College website provides activities that focus on connecting industry to math instruction. Activities include Bill of Materials: Matrices, Cool Your Chicken: Algebra and Geometry, Loads of Steel: Algebra, Mind Your Tolerance: Statistics, Solar Energy:...

This 6-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on sound waves created by guitar notes and chords. The purpose of this activity is for students to "demonstrate how a guitar fretboard functions and to understand the interaction between waves of different frequencies."...

Description: This collection of curriculum, from Norwalk Community College, includes a set of activities and application problems for intermediate algebra classes. These materials are intended to promote STEM majors and careers for students, especially to women in the course. The idea behind this...

This 3-page learning activity module from the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) provides information on technologies that have been used in the telecommunications industry. The activity consists of four short answer questions. Learning outcomes include: Describe the various...

This 8-page document, made available by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC), is an activity on the fundamental concepts of voice over IP. During the activity students will use both a "POTS or plain old telephone system dial peer" and a VoIP dial peer. The learning objective for this...

This resource, published by Georgia Tech Research Institute, features a biology and ecology activity designed for seventh graders. In this activity, students learn about the destruction of coral reefs in Fiji through the lesson and videos, and then act as biologists making recommendations to the...

These projects, collected by Cornell University's Cornell Science Inquiry Partnerships, were developed by graduate and undergraduate students at Cornell University, collaborating with middle and high school teachers through the National Science Foundation's GK-12 Fellowship Program. The full...

This exercise, from the Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT), uses remote sensing data to explore the correlation between environmental conditions and conflict in Sudan. In this eight part activity, students use MODIS imagery and NDVI Analysis in the context of...