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This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, will help students begin to understand nanotechnology, specifically behaviors of materials at the nanoscale. Students will "explore two factors affecting the thin film deposition, film cracking and the formation of 'coffee...

This lesson, provided by the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has students find patterns in common log and natural log calculations and use those patterns to develop log properties. Students also calculate exponential functions with given values of x and graph...

This lesson, from the Northern Wyoming Community College District, focuses on geology and the earth's structure in the context of locating and extracting natural resources. Using specially prepared cupcakes, student learn about the earth's geologic history through drawing and labeling rock layers,...

This collection from the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center (CREATE) is composed of teaching materials that highlight a lesson on commercial building energy systems. The collection is composed of a video and six documents. In the video, the unique needs of...

This scenario-based instructional activity card, from the ATE 2.0: Preparing Technicians for the Future of Work project, was created to support the implementation of the Cross-Disciplinary STEM CORE Framework. This framework has the following three skill areas: Data Knowledge and Analysis, Advanced...

This 252-page manual is provided by the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources and is part of a series on community-based education. This manual includes lessons, tools, resources, and forms that will provide guidance to assist educators and students with conducting community-based projects. The...

This 112-page manual is provided by the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources and is part of a series on community-based education. This manual provides lessons, tools, and resources to connect students with communities. The manual is divided into ten sections: Acknowledgement, Introduction,...

This 2-page activity and lesson plan, provided by the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), is intended to "demonstrate what actually happens to garbage in landfills, and compare it to simply burying the trash." The activity simulates the effects of burying garbage using ...

Description: FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing, has developed a curriculum to prepare students for careers in manufacturing. These Comprehension Instructional Sequence Model (CIS) Lesson Plans are intended to “build learners’ background knowledge in STEM...

Unit Description: FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing, has developed a curriculum to prepare students for careers in manufacturing. These Comprehension Instructional Sequence Model (CIS) Lesson Plans are intended to “build learners’ background knowledge in...