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The South Carolina Advanced Technological Education National Resource Center provides this list of job possibilities and example resumes for ATE students. Jobs include Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technicians, Civil Engineer Technician, Chemical Technicians, Computer Support Specialists,...

This activity from Lane Community College's MAPS GIS program, provides students with the opportunity to use a GIS map in conjunction with a statistics lesson and "use the data to find basic statistics about samples with the help of spreadsheet software." In this lesson, students will learn the...

This resource, created by San Diego Bay Watersheds in partnership with San Diego State University, provides data about water quality in the Bay area. The site provides four different tutorials designed to introduce students or educators to the concepts of geographic information systems (GIS) as it...

The objective of this learning activity is to provide students with an introduction to the sand casting method for metals and with an understanding of how the properties of materials can be changed. Sand casting is used to "make parts that are comprised of iron, bronze, brass, and, at times,...

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 Steve Brown demonstrates fitting the neck into the guitar body during electric guitar construction. The video runs 3:11...

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 Steve Brown demonstrates sanding off the neck tab with a belt sander during electric guitar construction. Topics covered...

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 Steve Brown demonstrates how to evenly sand the 12" radius on an electric guitar fretboard. The video runs 6:46 minutes in...

This 9-page resource, from the STEM Guitar Project, is a math activity on scale length, frequency, and string tension. This resource provides some background information on string tension and includes a list of learning objectives, an activity description and directions, activity answers, and ten...

This resource provides an introductory activity on scanning tunneling microscopy. As the module states, "a scanning tunneling microscope is a powerful tool for observing and manipulating the atomic-scale world." The activity covers concepts such as the tunneling effect, scanning the surface, two...

This is an animation of a Schmitt trigger circuit with clean input voltage. Voltages and parts of the circuit of this 3-D animated .gif are highlighted with different colors. Current is displayed by green arrows indicating directional flow.