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This 10-page resource, made available by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is a laboratory activity from the Solid State Devices course designed to "introduce the student to Switch mode power supplies." The following sections are included: Purpose, Systems Rationale, Systems...

This 36-page resource, developed by the National Center of Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), is one of three modules that cover spectroscopy and environmental monitoring. This module "covers spectroscopic techniques, pollution, common pollution problems, laser-based gas sensing, global...

This 39-page resource, developed by the National Center of Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), is one of three modules that cover spectroscopy and environmental monitoring. This module "covers general and specific types of spectroscopy, an overview of common spectroscopic instruments, remote...

This 2-page document, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is a template for the Project's learning activities. The following sections are included and can be updated as needed when designing learning activities: Title of Activity, Description of Activity, Learning Objectives, Standards,...

This project, led by the Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD), and funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Vocational and Adult Education under cooperative agreement with the League for Innovation in the Community College, is building on the work of the College and...

In this 7-page activity, provided by the GeoTech Consortium of Western New York, students will identify a famous true crime case and create an ArcGIS storymap with geographic locations related to the case. The activity includes instructions and spaces note the location and evidence found for each...

This 7-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the strength of steel guitar strings. During the activity students over-tighten a steel guitar string to calculate the breaking strength and then compare the breaking strength to tabulated values for common steel...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this experiment as an introduction to stress and strain. The lesson allows students the opportunity to "design and make a concrete cylinder and beam that can withstand the greatest applied load." The concepts of comprehensive...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this experiment on the elastic and plastic properties of metals. The module involves using metal wire to gauge the elastic and plastic properties of metals by measuring length difference as a result of additional tensile loads....

DeafTEC provides this resource which covers the top ten things deaf and hard of hearing students would like their teachers to do. The handout includes ideas and suggestions to facilitate a more accessible classroom environment for deaf and hard of hearing students. Some of the items on the list...