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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...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this experiment as an introduction to stress and strain. The lesson allows students the opportunity to "design and make a concrete cylinder and beam that can withstand the greatest applied load." The concepts of comprehensive...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this experiment on the elastic and plastic properties of metals. The module involves using metal wire to gauge the elastic and plastic properties of metals by measuring length difference as a result of additional tensile loads....

DeafTEC provides this resource which covers the top ten things deaf and hard of hearing students would like their teachers to do. The handout includes ideas and suggestions to facilitate a more accessible classroom environment for deaf and hard of hearing students. Some of the items on the list...

DeafTEC provides this page with a series of short videos interviewing deaf and hard-of-hearing students about their experiences in education. The students talk about deaf stereotypes, positive and negative experiences with teachers, and the fact that they have to prepare more before and after class...

This 5-page resource, from the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on basic soldering. During this activity students will "learn the basics of soldering by creating a solder sculpture and testing for continuity." This activity includes the following learning objectives:  Students will be able...

This 152-page dissertation, written by Rita Manco Powell, is about a study that examines fourteen women in their first year of the computer science major. The study looks at the pre-college influences that led these women to the major and the nature of their experiences with faculty, peers, and...

Module Description: This module was created by the Center for Nanotechnology Education (Nano-Link) and introduces students to superhydrophobicity. Science and nanoscience concepts covered during the module include molecular bonds, electron density concepts and molecular modeling, atomic and...

This PowerPoint tutorial is provided by Hartnell College and covers taxonomy and phylogeny. In this tutorial, students will learn the Linnaeus classification scheme, two theories of taxonomy, and how to read a cladogram. The tutorial includes an introduction and information on topics such...

DeafTEC provides this page with a series of short videos interviewing teachers about their experience teaching deaf and hard-of-hearing students. The teachers talk about deaf stereotypes, positive and negative experiences, and working with interpreters. Additionally, the videos provide viewers with...