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These resources, provided by Hartnell College, are administrative documents that were used for the National Science Foundation Salina Valley Consortium for Sustainable Energy, Education and Research 2014 summer internship program. Documents include two intern invitation letters, a letter of...

This webpage from the GeoTech Consortium of Western New York: Get the GIST (Geospatial Information Science Technology) Certificate provides sample GIS activities. These activities include a latitude and longitude lab, two topography and glacier feature labs, an exploring rock types using ArcGIS ...

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 17-page assessment toolkit was created by SRI International to help educators broaden learning objectives to shift from content topics to student competencies. SRI seeks assessment as a path for addressing challenges in implementing the instructional technique problem-based learning (PBL). "...

This video, published by National Academies (U.S.), provides a brief overview of their 2016 Barriers and Opportunities for 2-Year and 4-Year Stem Degrees report. Examples of barriers that prevent students from completing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM) degrees include increased...

Module Description: This module was created by the Center for Nanotechnology Education (Nano-Link) and includes an activity for students to learn about and practice the scientific method. During the activity students will use cellophane fish to test various hypotheses about why and how the fish...

This presentation, created by Louse Yarnall of SRI International, provides an overview of how support was provided for classroom implementation of problem-based learning (PBL) in a STEM workforce course. "Educators find PBL challenging to implement because it requires tradeoffs around classroom...

This 11-page document, provided by the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), discusses six contextual teaching and learning (CTL) strategies, including their goals, examples, and "challenges" that help instructors implement them. When conducting CTL, instructors must identify...

This collection from the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center (CREATE) is composed of teaching materials that highlight a lesson on the Solar Pathfinder. "The Pathfinder is an instrument that was developed to determine whether or not a given site is...

Description: These course materials, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), are resources that can be used to teach the basics of semiconductor materials and devices to students pursuing an Associate of Applied Sciences degree in electronics technology. Topics covered...