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This is a lesson plan to develop a robot arm using common materials. Students will explore design, construction, teamwork, and materials selection and use. Although stated as suitable for high school students it could be used in an introductory CC course in robotics to stress concepts. The full...

This activity is provided by Stanford Solar Center and covers building a working spectroscope to study the nature of light. "The curriculum includes study guides for various grade groups, PowerPoints to explain concepts, age-appropriate hands-on activities, and three videos." The site also includes...

This web site provides renewable energy activities and projects. The site is divided into the following sections: Home, Getting Started, Projects, References, Half Program, Experimental, and Site Map. Project topics include Conservation, Solar Thermal, Solar Electric, Bio Fuels, Solar Cooking, and...

This paper, from Suzanne Silverman and Alice M. Pritchard of the Vocational Equity Research, Training, and Evaluation Center, a project of the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund in Hartford, Connecticut, covers the disparity of girls in technology programs in Connecticut. A study was...

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. This episode of ATETV focuses on "some of the many ways students can build their resume while still in school and graduate ready to enter a high-paying, high-demand job of the future." The episode can...

This video, created by Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), provides an overview bulk micromachining. The lecture runs for 6:17 and describes the process of bulk micromachining as a process used to fabricate micro-sized components. More information can be found on the SCME website.

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. In this episode of ATETV, biotechnology and telecommunications are discussed. Community colleges work with companies in fields such as biotechnology to design curriculum to better educate their...

Description: This collection of learning resources, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, are activities on using computer-aided design and drafting software (CADD) to create guitar fretboards. The collection includes a series of three learning activities on designing and creating fretboards...

This video and online calculator show how to calculate the molecular weight of a substance from the atomic weights given on the periodic table. Use the molecular weight to convert between the macroscopic scale (grams of a substance) and the microscopic scale (number of molecules of that substance)....

This collection of videos, from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, features researchers as they "explain the basics of stem cell research and discuss the many hurdles in translating the basic research into new therapies." Some of the topics covered here include: creating embryonic...