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This 2-page resource, from Minnesota State Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence, is a checklist intended for manufacturers hosting a tour during the Minnesota Manufactured Statewide Tour of Manufacturing. This checklist details best practices for 7-10 days before the tour, the day of the...

Corresponding to the PBS NOVA television program, this site covers the story of how humans developed a method for finding our way around the globe. It discusses today's greatest scientific challenges, explores GPS and how it works, and describes how ancient navigators found their way without...

This resource from the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing (FLATE) will help educators bring music into their classrooms. Everyday items are used including rubber bands, tissue boxes and paperclips. The lesson plan is intended for middle school aged students; the...

This activity, from the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center, is targeted towards students in middle school and high school, and challenges them to think of products (either manufactured or occurring naturally) that originate from Florida. Students begin by watching a 27-minute video...

This webpage from the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing (FLATE) provides information about the Lego Mindstorms Robotics summer camp for middle and high school students. A short video clip provides information on the focus of the camp (running time: 1:53).

This webpage, from the Tap Into Teen Minds website, includes a lesson on sparking curiosity from multiplication to quadratic relationships. "In this 3 act math task, students watch a rectangle that is iterating between getting "shorter" and "wider", then "taller" and "thinner". This task can be...

This 13-page report, from St. Vrain Valley Schools, describes the design and construction of the underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) created by the Magikarp Industries team for the Ranger Class of the 2023 MATE ROV competition. MATE ROV is a global competition that challenges STEM students to...

This activity for middle school students, from the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing, challenges students to produce their own photo frame in the name of demonstrating the basic processes involved in manufacturing systems. Over the period of two classes, students will...

Make Magazine presents a video demonstrating how to make a 3x3x3 cube made of LED lights. Presenter Bre Pettis explains how to program the LED lights to perform an animation. For further instructions, visit www.makezine.com/podcast. 

This 2-page checklist, from the Minnesota State Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence, is intended for manufacturers and includes ideas and tips for offering a virtual Minnesota Manufactured Statewide Tour. These tours can help students learn more about modern manufacturing in Minnesota. Tours...