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This activity, from the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center (CREATE), provides an introduction to the balance of system equipment and system design for solar photovoltaic panels. During the activity students will learn: How solar PV systems can be...

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 use of silicon in solar photovoltaic panels. The collection is composed of four documents. Documents include an...

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...

During this activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, students complete a problem-based activity that exposes conflicting views of environmental issues. The activity begins with students "acquiring historical water quality data for their site. This information will be...

In this animated and interactive object, the learner uses a TI-86 calculator to solve for the magnitude of the resultant and of one of the component forces in a right triangle.

This resource, published by Georgia Tech Research Institute, features an engineering activity designed for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. In this activity, students work with partners to design a cell phone holder for their partner's phone using a 3D modeling software. Each student will have to...

This 7-page story map activity is provided by the GeoTech Consortium of Western New York: Get the GIST (Geospatial Information Science Technology) Certificate. In this activity users will research a famous criminal case to create a story map with ArcGIS. Users will focus on the locations of where...

In this webinar, published by Florence-Darlington Technical College, Sarah Belknap and Juan Rodriguez Jr., STEM professors at State University of New York Westchester Community College (SUNY WCC), discuss using activities to create an inclusive and engaging classroom atmosphere. Belknap and...

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...

This lesson plan, from the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an exploration in subtracting multi-digit natural numbers. In this lesson, students work in pairs to subtract two multi-digit Natural numbers where the subtrahend and minuend differ in number of...