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This video, presented by WGBH, looks at a high school outreach program to get students interested in plastic manufacturing by having them make plastic race cars. The students go through the entire process of design from both technical and hands-on perspectives. This video also serves as an overview...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this lesson plan for students learning about polymers. The class will observe the physical properties of various plastics for rigidity, color, density and texture. The objective of the experiment is "to test and compare the...

In this activity, presented by the Lane Community College MAPS GIS Program, students will learn the concept of a digital data viewer, and how this resource can help them learn more about plate tectonics. Students will learn terminology associated with both geology and computer aided GIS. The...

This animation, presented by the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), provides an overview of pneumatic valves and pneumatic cylinders. According to the animation, "pneumatic valves control the flow of compressed air" and have "two common features: a passageway through which air...

This is a web page with learning objects in Pneumatics. The lessons cover the topics of scientific laws & symbols, valves and actuators, pneumatic power sources, and other basic concepts.

This 40-page module, published by the Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center (ATEEC), is part of a series of instructional materials on environmental technology and decision-making. This module focuses on the science-based background and research on point source water contamination. ...

In this activity, students will gain an "understanding of a commonly published diagram of global carbon pools and fluxes. Students create a scaled 3-D visual of carbon pools and net fluxes between pools with anthropogenic influences." Targeted at middle school through undergraduate students (grades...

The NCSR Pictorial Series of presentations are designed to provide faculty, teachers and other natural resource professionals an informal PowerPoint presentation on selected environmental settings. The presentations consist of pictures of the natural environment and feature plants, animals and...

This 22-page report, published by the Polytechnic University of Turin, describes the design and construction of the underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) created by the PoliTOcean team for the Explorer Class of the 2022 MATE ROV competition. MATE ROV is a global competition that challenges STEM...

This polynomials lesson, from the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, is part of a series of seven applied electronics math lessons. In this lesson students practice adding, subtracting and multiplying polynomials. Students practice factoring quadratic equations,...