Below are the available STEM Guitar modular learning activities (MLAs):
Select Electric Guitar MLAs
- Index of MLAs
- Guitar Body Geometry
- Intonation
- Know Your Lumber
- Material Properties of Wood
- MLA Fret Spacing – AutoCAD
- MLA Fret Spacing – Geometry
- MLA Fret spacing – Algebra
- Tooth Tunes
- Boomwhackers
- Fret Spacing mathematics
- Guitar anatomy
- Physics of music waves
- Board feet calculation
- Mathematics of musical scales
- Scale length frequency and string tension
- Tolerances
- Threaded fasteners activity
- Spreadsheet for Fret Spacing
- Wave Behavior of Guitar Harmonics
- Consonant and Dissonant Waves
- Safety and Common Equipment Introduction!
- Successful Soldering
- A prelude to pickups activity
- Guitar electronics Activity
CNC MLAs
- Computer Aided design and manufacturing
- Guitar Body Geometry activity
- Wood for Guitars
- Golden ratio in Art
- Designing a guitar Body
- Guitar body shapes and design
Acoustic MLAs
- Adhesives
- Anatomy and Cost analysis
- Bending strength of materials
- CAD Fretboards
- Guitar Setup
- Helmholtz resonator
- Humidification
- Sharpening cutting edges
- String Strength
- Tree Growth
- Wood Selection
Additional Resources
- Moosiko is now free for all educators (public and private) through the end of April. Social distancing is actually a perfect time to learn the guitar and virtual tools like Moosiko make that possible: www.moosiko.com
- East Tennessee State University Professor Dr. Bill Hemphill’s Emergency Face Shield Project:
- Emergency Face Shield CADD data and the preliminary photos and early draft PowerPoint document: https://dropbox.etsu.edu/message/kFeBqPsBFmakK4EVVar3HP