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This 13-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the use of tolerances in engineering drawings. During the activity students will "learn to identify tolerances on a drawing, calculate the acceptable dimension of a feature, and specify tolerances for dimensions...

This 25-page document is designed to assist educators in the development of curriculum, application of supporting instructional technology, and in supporting other aspects of natural resource education. This Toolbox is intended to assist faculty in documentation and testing of their instructional...

Created by Kaye Krueger of Wisconsin Online Resource Center, this presentation allows user to read about how total productive maintenance can prevent breakdowns, defects, and a variety of other losses. This is a nice, brief introduction to this important topic in manufacturing engineering.

This 2-page checklist, from the Minnesota State Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence, is intended for teachers participating in the Minnesota Manufactured Statewide Tour. This tour is for students to learn more about modern manufacturing in Minnesota. The checklist includes tips for...

This lesson plan, adapted from NASA's Solar and Heliocentric Observatory website, teaches students how to examine and track sunspots at different latitudes on the sun.  This activity "can be used as an introduction to the solar cycle to explore the relationship between sunspots and other solar...

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. In this episode of ATETV, precision agriculture, laser and photonics technology and biomanufacturing are discussed. All of these areas are on the cutting edge of technology, and many students are...

Created by Patrick Hoppe, of the Wisconsin Online Resource Center, this is an introduction to the metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET). Along with a general introduction, students also examine its enhancement mode. This is a nice, brief introduction to the topic.

This PBS website is about the history of the transistor. Visitors can learn more about the timeline of inventions in this area, including the discovery of the electron, the silicon p-n junction, the invention of the transistor, the integrated circuit and the future of transistors. The website...

This resource provides an interactive activity on field effect transistors. These are "a type of transistor that utilizes an electric field to control the shape of a channel in which charge carriers in a semiconductor material flow." An interactive diagram is presented allowing students to...

These learning materials, made available by the STEM Guitar project, are an activity and a presentation on the growth of trees. The presentation describes factors that affect tree growth including the following topics: what information about a tree can be gained by looking at the cross section of...