Supported by the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (NSF ATE) program, HI-TEC is a national conference on advanced technological education where secondary and postsecondary educators, counselors, industry professionals, trade organizations, and technicians can update...
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This 3-page learning activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), allows students to evaluate the difficulties that may arise in attempting to separate various materials. The lesson involves taking soil samples and performing a perk test of each sample. Concepts/skills learned (i.e. from K/S Tables) during the activity include:
- Perform typical laboratory procedures,
- measure meteorological factors,
- locate positions on map,
- evaluate groundwater features,
- and use survey data and technique.
For more applied STEM education resources from NSF's Advanced Technological Education program, please visit ATE Central.
Reading the canon of philosophy can give the appearance that great advances in human knowledge have come about solely through the efforts of men such as Plato, Aristotle, and Wittgenstein. The Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers is an effort to counter that misconception with a comprehensive overview of important concepts and ideas developed by women philosophers. On the page linked above, visitors can explore entries organized by "Concepts" originated or advanced by a woman philosopher (e.g., justice, religious freedom); philosophical "Keywords" (e.g., good life, positivism); "Philosophers" who have typically been omitted from the canon of philosophy (e.g., Anne Bradstreet, Ban Zhao); and "Contributors" whose scholarship and expertise has kept the works of these women philosophers alive. Each entry is only 100-300 words, offering a concise introduction, with links to important primary and secondary sources. The encyclopedia is an initiative of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, whose mission is to use the tools of the digital humanities to "show that women have influenced the development of scientific and philosophical thought in various ways throughout history." The center is directed by Ruth Hagengruber of Paderborn University in Germany and advised by Mary Ellen Waithe of Cleveland State University, with funding from Paderborn University and the Ministry for Culture and Science in North Rhine-Westphalia. Readers are encouraged to engage further with the project and its resources, including opportunities for scholarly study, workshops and events, and ongoing projects, all of which can be found in the menu at the top of the page.
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Thursday, July 28, 2022
We are excited to announce the release of the ATE Impacts 2022-2023 book. Copies can be ordered online through the ATE Impacts website, and digital copies of the book can be accessed there as well. The digital copies are viewable across all devices....
Monday, May 21, 2018
CWIS version 4.1.1 has been released and is now available for download on the Scout site.
This is a maintenance release, focusing primarily on bug fixes, robustness, and increased PHP and MySQL/MariaDB compatibility. More specific detail about additions and fixes can be found on the Change...