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This 10-page paper from Jason A. Finkelstein of Bronx Community College discusses the college's Coordinated Freshman Program, which was designed to improve retention of at-risk students. This paper focuses on the retention strategies that worked well for Bronx Community College. Successful...

This 28-page report, published by Dickinson High School, describes the design and construction of an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV). This report was created by Dickinson Gators Engineering, Inc., a student group that participated in the 2021 MATE ROV competitions Ranger class. MATE ROV...

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 collection from the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center (CREATE) is composed of teaching materials that highlight a lesson on measuring "the sun’s irradiance (radiant power received by a surface per unit of area) with an instrument used in the solar...

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.