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This course is intended to help students learn about components, circuits, and the use of electronics. Users may explore the contents in any order. Sections include components, data sheets, signals and other related topics.

In this activity, students will collect and use solar data to compute, using angular velocity, the Sun's rotation period. This lesson is intended for grades 6-12.

This Web site features a series of animations showing the operation of a vortex flowmeter that is used to measure flow in a process control system. Besides defining a vortex flowmeter, a Flash animation shows how it causes vortices around a blunt object obstructing the flow. A sine wave flow is...

This 48-page resource, developed by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), is one of three modules that cover optics and lasers in the biomedicine field. This module "covers medical lasers, beam delivery methods, laser types used in medicine, lasers in dermatology, lasers...

This site offers a variety of lesson plans, hands-on projects, multimedia presentations, and other STEM resources for middle school and high school teachers that can be used in the classroom. The lesson archives section includes resources in the areas of mathematics, finance, science, social...

This 11-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the use of threaded fasteners in guitar construction. During the activity students will "[identify] the various threaded fasteners that are found in this project, and in industry, with respect to the following...

This 6-page resource, provided by the Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center (ATEEC), features three activities centered on Emergency Response Plans to oil spills. Included are lesson plans for each activity, assignments, timeframes, and materials needed. The activities are...

This 13-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the use of tolerances in engineering drawings. During the activity students will "learn to identify tolerances on a drawing, calculate the acceptable dimension of a feature, and specify tolerances for dimensions...

This 25-page document is designed to assist educators in the development of curriculum, application of supporting instructional technology, and in supporting other aspects of natural resource education. This Toolbox is intended to assist faculty in documentation and testing of their instructional...

This 8-page paper, from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2014 Conference, discusses the accomplishments of a STEM transfer program. The program featured a graduation rate of over 95% with more than 60% of students being female or an underrepresented minority. Dr. Mary R....