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This presentation and accompanying handouts from the first Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills, given by Deborah Boisvert from Broadening Advanced Technological Education Connections​ (BATEC), reflects on work with employers to define, teach, and assess 21st century skills of computer...

In this lesson from the MAPS GIS program at Lane Community College, students examine global spatial patterns of human development using a web-based GIS map. Using the HDI (Human Development Index) layer, students can identify demographic patterns of population and development and hypothesize reasons...

This resource, presented by the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is an animation that serves as an introduction to Human Machine Interfaces. According to the animation, a Human Machine Interface is "a way for an operator to access a machine." Types of Human Machine Interfaces...

This 16-page resource, from the STEM Guitar Project, includes information about guitar humidity and dry guitar symptoms, a guitar humidifier construction activity, and a laboratory experiment. The activity teaches students how to make a guitar case humidifier and includes a 12-question quiz and...

This 22-page report, from Mt. Pearl Senior High School, describes the design and construction of the underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) created by the Huskey Explorer team for the Ranger Class of the 2022 MATE ROV competition. MATE ROV is a global competition that challenges STEM students to...

These interactive learning objects, created by instructors from Fox Valley Technical College and other colleges in the Wisconsin Technical College program, focus on concepts that cover a broad-based electromechanical program. Here visitors will find learning objects in Hydraulics including Basic...

This video is part of a series of hydraulic cylinder training modules by Lewis-Clark State College. This video provides an introduction to hydraulic cylinders. The video discusses everyday uses of hydraulic cylinders, the design of a cylinder, how single acting cylinders work, what is a double...

This video, created by Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), demonstrates hydrophobic properties through an experiment with a Tuscan kale leaf. "To illustrate the self-cleaning property of a hydrophobic surface, red chilé powder is sprinkled on the leaf's surface. Such properties are...

This website from iBiology includes a number videos on a variety of biology topics. Video topics include biochemistry, bioengineering, biophysics, cell biology, development and stem cells, ecology, evolution, genetics and gene regulation, human disease, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, plant...

This paper, by Aaron C. Clark and Robert E. Wenig, faculty in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education in the College of Education and Psychology at North Carolina State University, presents a case study on the identification of quality characteristics for technology...