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Unit Description: FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing, has developed a series of “Made in Florida” lesson plans to prepare students for careers in manufacturing. These Lesson Plans are intended to enrich science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...

This 11-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the measurement of guitar string action. During the activity students will "learn to use precision measurement tools (string action gauges or steel rules) to determine the amount of string action on their guitar."...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, was recorded at the Guitar Build Institute held at Aptos Middle School in San Francisco, California in 2018. In the video Alex Moll demonstrates how to sand and drill fret dots during electric guitar construction. The video runs 5:12 minutes in...

This lab activity from the Biotechnology Alliance for Suncoast Biology Educators (BASBE) explores diffusion and osmosis. It includes several demonstrations of the principles and two activities that allow the student to develop a testable hypothesis about the osmotic potential of various plant cells....

In this activity, students examine the relationship between soil microbes and carbon cycling through self-designed experiments exploring “microbial respiration rates and soil variables such as temperature, habitat, soil type, and agricultural management choices.” Three different techniques for...

This resource, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is an animation of a mechanical booster (rotary lobe) pump. The objective of the animation is to describe the components and operation of a mechanical booster pump (Roots Blower). An .mp4 is also available to view and ...

This website from Fox Valley Technical College provides learning objects on Mechanical Drives with lessons in: Belt and Chain Drives and Gears and Gear Drives. Each lesson links to an interactive resource which helps to further explain the concepts.

This Mechanical Linkages website provides learning objects in Physics of Basic Machines & Practical Four (4) Bar Mechanisms. Learning objects include Class 2 Levers: Force Input Angles; Identifying Lever Classes; Converting Rotational Velocity to Linear Velocity; Introduction to Class 1,2, and 3...

This collection from College of Lake County (CLC) contains four documents related to creating a pathway for high school students to CLC's mechatronics degree. The first item, Automation and Robotics Introductory Certificate 24ZC, contains a list of 15 dual credit courses that high school students...

This video, created by Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), provides an overview of the different applications of microelectromechanical systems or MEMS. The video runs 13:37 minutes in length and describes a variety of possible MEMS, including: inkjet printheads, DNA microarrays,...