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This 2-page activity is provided by AgrowKnowledge and involves collecting geospatial data. During the activity students will collect feature and attribute data from the field, transfer data to shapefile format, and view feature points in ArcExplorer. Users will need a Garmin eTrex GPS unit with...

In this 4-page exercise, from Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, students complete a critical thinking activity on hypoxia and the Mississippi River watershed. The activity requires role playing "a public meeting to discuss the Integrated Assessment of Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf...

This resource, published by Georgia Tech Research Institute, features an ecology and data visualization activity designed for seventh graders. In this activity, students color-code and quantify data from images of coral to evaluate the health of coral impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. The...

Module Description: This module, from Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), introduces "students to the common processes used to deposit thin films in the fabrication of micro-size devices." This module is divided into the following six units: Knowledge Probe (Pre-test), Primary...

In this 2-page activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, students translate real world problems into mathematical form. Students use formulas to calculate perimeter, circumference, surface area, cross sectional areas, and volumes of three dimensional analysis. This...

Curriculum Description: This collection includes all components of the Spring 2021 Integrated Design Thinking curriculum developed by NorthWest Arkansas Community College (NWACC). Design Thinking begins as a framework for discovering and developing solutions that can be applied to a variety of...

This 3-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on guitar body design. During the activity students design a wooden guitar body with Vcarve Pro CAD software. The activity was designed as a capstone project "for second and third year students already familiar with CAD...

Genetically modified foods are often in the news and widely grown in the United States. Three US government agencies (USDA, FDA, and EPA) work to regulate the introduction and production of genetically modified foods. These crops can provide agricultural, ecological and nutritional benefits, but...

This exercise, from the Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT), uses annual flood risk in Cedar Rapids, Iowa as an example to help students understand how Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing can be used to analyze flood situations. Using this...

This 1-page document, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), is a learning activity that provides students with the opportunity to analyze water quality in their local area. In the activity, students place glass slides in several water sites two weeks prior to...