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This resource from the Florida Advanced Technological Education (FLATE) Center will help students develop their understanding of high tech careers. The lesson will provide students the opportunity to use the internet to access career and education planning information while considering their own...

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, covers nanotechnology in consumer products. First, the instructor presents an introductory PowerPoint and then "students are given a chance in groups to explore consumer products through an information sheet provided over...

Lesson Description: This lesson is from a welding course and is provided by the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During the lesson, students create a bill of materials including detailed part weight. Topics include calculating weights based on per foot weight...

This website from the Fiber Optic Association is a self-study course on fiber optic testing. This site includes learning objectives, definition, prerequisites, references, videos, lesson plans, and more. The six lesson plans included are Overview of fiber optic testing; Fiber optic test parameters...

Optical fibers transmit light signals and are widely used in the telecommunications industry to transmit data over long distances. Light travels through the core material of an optical fiber by essentially repeatedly bouncing off the cladding material that surrounds the core. Understanding...

This course, developed by the Fiber Optic Association, Inc., provides an overview of FTTx (Fiber to the Home), and provides six lesson plans called: What is FTTX, FTTx Architectures, FTTx PON Protocols, Installing FTTX Networks, Testing FTTx Networks, and FTTH Design, Case Study. Each lesson plan...

This page from the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing (FLATE) provides links to a number of lesson plans for high school students. Some of the lessons pertain to manufacturing in the state of Florida, and others would be applicable to a number of science classes,...

This page from the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing (FLATE) provides links to a number of lesson plans for middle school students. Some of the lessons pertain to manufacturing in the state of Florida, and others would be applicable to a number of science classes,...

This 14-page document, provided by The Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), contains three activities and a list of resources with links (articles, activities, films, etc.) related to flood management. The activities are as follows: Chemical Stream Assessment The Impact...

Lesson Description: This lesson is the first of nine lessons from the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. During this lesson, students work in groups to use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to determine...