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This interactive lesson from SpaceTEC's National Aerospace Technical Education Center presents an overview of the aerospace workplace. It includes videos discussing topics in the aerospace field including the history of rockets and space pioneers, the principles of rocketry and orbital dynamics,...

This activity from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC) explores invasive species. The activity asks students to look into one invasive species and record details about their native habitat, diet, how and why the species was introduced, and more. Students then create an...

This resource, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is an animation that shows how mass affects implantation. The magnetic force of the ions can be compared to a pinball machine with three different masses. If the same impulse is applied to each ball, only the one with...

In this lesson from The Lane Community College MAPS GIS program, students will find cities in the United States that are of similar size to Eugene, OR and compare attributes such as crime rate, land area, etc. using box and whisker plots. Prior to the lesson, the instructor will use a computer and...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, introduces students to the difficulty to of measuring at the nanoscale. Accuracy and precision are the most important principles or measuring at such a small scale, and with the growing demand for nanotechnology careers, an...

This 2-page lesson plan outlines how an instructor can demonstrate how a diffraction grating "separates all the constituent colors from each source and allows us to see the spectrum of the source." This lesson plan includes a short description, a list of objectives, background information, and a...

In this 1-page activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, students develop a procedure for separating a mix of granulated salt, fine sawdust, iron filings, and fine sand. Through the activity, students learn to correlate results, plan action needed, generate new ideas,...

This 25-page report, published by Istanbul Technical University, describes the design and construction of DERE, an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV). This report was created by the ??????????ITU ROV Team, a student group that participated in the 2021 MATE ROV competitions Explorer class. ...

This 25-page report, published by İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (ITU), describes the design and construction of the underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) created by the ITU ROV Team for the Telepresence Explorer Class of the 2022 MATE ROV competition. MATE ROV is a global competition that...

The Izaak Walton League of America is a national nonprofit organization that educates the public about population and natural resource consumption issues through their Sustainability Education Project. This group also works with organizations involved in promoting sustainability at the community...