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Make Magazine presents a video demonstrating how to make a 3x3x3 cube made of LED lights. Presenter Bre Pettis explains how to program the LED lights to perform an animation. For further instructions, visit www.makezine.com/podcast. 

This 2-page checklist, from the Minnesota State Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence, is intended for manufacturers and includes ideas and tips for offering a virtual Minnesota Manufactured Statewide Tour. These tours can help students learn more about modern manufacturing in Minnesota. Tours...

This lesson plan from the Florida Advanced Technological Education (FLATE) Center asks students to design a luxury coach. The class will analyze the client's basic design requirements, sketch a layout, and plan accordingly to realize the design. Students will also have the opportunity to compare...

This lesson plan from the Florida Advanced Technological Education (FL-ATE) Center asks students to conceptualize a flight simulator which would be used to train pilots. The class will draw a sketch of what their simulator would look like. They will then compare their own work to a case study of how...

This webpage from the EFMR Monitoring Group provides information on the extraction of natural gas from Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale formation. Users may read a brief overview of the extraction efforts and the environmental concerns involved. A lesson plan and resource guide is available for...

This resource, published by Georgia Tech Research Institute, features an science activity designed for eighth graders. In this activity, students engage as environmental engineers to determine how the oil from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill landed at the bottom of the ocean in order to prevent...

Located in Newport News, Virginia, the Mariners' Museum is one of the largest international maritime history museums filled to the crow's nest with prized artifacts that celebrate the spirit of seafaring adventure. Site features eight online exhibitions including: The Age of Exploration, the USS...

These two documents are related to the Maritime Careers Game, an activity designed to introduce middle school students to careers in the maritime and transportation industry. This activity was created by Amanda Snyder, a school counselor and 2015 SMART Maritime and Transportation Institute Alumni....

Created by a group of middle school teachers at a SMART Summer Institute, this WebQuest allows students to "explore the maritime careers and the training requirements, education and experience needed for each position." The WebQuest has a number of components, including games, a vocabulary activity,...

This Multimedia Literacy webinar, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC) was presented by Sarah Armstrong on June 16, 2011. Armstrong posits that, at present, we all suffer from TMI (too much information); as such, educators must help students sort through what they see...