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This 33-page guide, published by Brown University, discusses achieving gender equity in science classrooms. The guide "recommends concrete strategies to keep female college students coming back to science classes." These strategies include personalizing large classes, shifting from a competitive to...
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This 15-page document, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on cost estimates and the anatomy of acoustic guitars. During the activity students "calculate the cost and quantity of the following components: soundbox or body back, sides, top, interior bracing and kerfing,...
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This 7-page activity is provided by the GeoTech Consortium of Western New York: Get the GIST (Geospatial Information Science Technology) Certificate and helps users create a map and add map layers in ArcGIS. The activity includes step by step instructions which involve creating a new map, adding...
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This 4-page activity is provided by the GeoTech Consortium of Western New York: Get the GIST (Geospatial Information Science Technology) Certificate and helps users turn spreadsheet data into map layers. During this activity users will create a new ArcGIS map layer from a CSV file of emergency...
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This 7-page activity is provided by the GeoTech Consortium of Western New York: Get the GIST (Geospatial Information Science Technology) Certificate and has users configure a map in ArcGIS and use it for analyzing dams in New York. The activity includes background information on state-regulated dams...
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In this 12-page activity, provided by the GeoTech Consortium of Western New York: Get the GIST (Geospatial Information Science Technology) Certificate, users explore lava hazard zones using a map in ArcGIS. The activity includes an introduction and step by step instructions. The instructions involve...
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This 17-page module, from Tennessee Technological University, "introduces students to the additive (AM) methods used in fabricating magnetic materials." This module briefly covers "magnetic properties, types of magnetic materials, AM technologies used to produced these magnets, and application...
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Description: This collection of learning resources, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, are activities on adhesives. Topics covered include: the history of glue, types of glue, chemistry of adhesives, strengths of different glues, applications of adhesives in guitar construction, and...
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These presentation slides, from Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP), address the seventh grade science curriculum developed by the AMP-IT-UP partnership between the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) and the Griffin-Spalding County School System...
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Module Description: This module was created by the Center for Nanotechnology Education (Nano-Link) and introduces students to aerogels. "In this module, students will learn about aerogels and some of the nanoscale phenomena that give aerogels their remarkable properties." Science and nanoscience...
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