Technology Education

Curriculum:

More:

A site with a wealth of information:
http://info.lu.farmingdale.edu/~ntea/internetsitestovisit.html

Bio-Tech:
Water usage project - http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/drainproj/information.html

Brain Teasers:
http://school.discovery.com/brainboosters/
http://www.petersburgil.com/p_puzzles.htm
http://www.bodo.com/jokes/jpuzzles.htm
http://www.teacherfiles.com/4t/brain_busters.htm
http://www.monitortoday.com/busters.html
http://www.brainbashers.com/
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/brain_teasers.htm

Curriculums From Other Schools:
http://www.texastechnology.com/Curriculum/Tech_Ed_Course/High_School/

Design:
http://www.idsa.org/idea/idea2004/idea2004.htm

Electronics:

Try this for student’s use: http://www.circuitmaker.com/downloads/student.htm

Nice kits selection and good prices:
http://www.electronickits.com/

Great small robots from cheap and recycled parts:  http://www.robotroom.com/

Using recycled stepper motors:
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ih/doc/stepper/

Energy & Transportation:
www.rrc.state.tx.us/divisions/afred/education/education.html

Engineering Sites:
www.e4engineering.com
www.sln.org.uk/d&t/datafile

Ethics:
www.josephsoninstitute.org/jilinks.htm

Good Physics Site:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/cf.html

Inventors:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/theme/inventions04.htm

Activity: Groups will focus on innovations in the following fields: communication, transportation, medicine, sports, and games. They'll choose important inventions in that field and look at how these inventions have changed the way we live.

http://www.greenburgh.k12.ny.us/kits/inventions.html

Inventions that Changed Our Lives Project
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/cat_show.html?cat_id=79
http://www.fashion-era.com/20th_century_major_innovations.htm

20th Century Major Innovations
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson120.shtml

Internet Scavenger Hunt: Inventors and Inventions
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson240.shtml

Invite your students to invent a better mousetrap -- or a better mouse! This week, Education World lessons focus on inventors and inventions, challenging your students to see the world in a whole new way. Included: Five "inventive" problem-solving lessons. A

• Different Drum
  Students invent musical instruments. (Grades 3-5, 6-8) 

• Imagine That!
  Students write and illustrate biographies of inventors.
  (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) 

• I'll Trade You a Henry Ford for a Ben Franklin!
  Students create and trade inventor trading cards. (Grades 3-5, 6-8) 

• That's a Good Idea!
  Students develop concepts for new products and follow the process for patenting their designs. (Grades 9-12) 

• It's About Time!
  Students trace the historical development of a single product or category of product. (Grades 6-8)

http://www.inventorsmuseum.com/

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ahrpa/opa/projxl/invthink/invthink.htm

This clear and comprehensive project from the United States Patent and Trademark Office provides advice and activities teachers can use to help students develop problem-solving skills.

http://colitz.com/site/wacky/wackyold.htm

Prior Wacky Patents

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/inventors.htm

Inventors & Inventions for K-12 Education

http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/inventors.htm

Inventors and Inventions

http://www.noogenesis.com/inventing/pencil/pencil_page.html

Inventing a New Kind of Pencil

http://www.visi.com/~reuteler/leonardo.html

Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci

http://cspace.unb.ca/nbco/pigs/invent/

INVENTING IS KID'S STUFF

http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsclist.htm

ANCIENT INVENTIONS

http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/University/Inventions/Inventions.html

Inventions and Technology

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/inventions/

Invention

http://www.inventamerica.com/program.cfm

INVENT AMERICA! has been helping kids learn to create and think outside the box for more than 17 years!

http://www.techdirections.com/html/tech_ed.html

Technology Education Books

http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/invent.htm

Smithsonian Institution

http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/inventor.html

Inventors/Inventions

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/technology/

Inventors

Manufacturing:
http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/

Problem Solving:
Exercises - 
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/Roofonfire/PROBLEM.html
http://www.connectseward.org/sms/problem_solving.htm
Groups - http://www.youthwork.com/activitiesinit.html
Initiative Games - http://www.learning-for-life.org/exploring/resources/99-720/x09.pdf   Team Building Activities - http://www.wilderdom.com/games/InitiativeGames.html

Teaching Aides:
on demand - http://vod.unitedstreaming.com

Tech. Ed. Activities:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~macinnis/scifun/miniexp.htm

Technology Learning Activities:
www.asme.org/students/contestideas
www.asme.org/students/competitions

Technology & Society:
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/ 

Videos:
ABC’s of Handtools video - http://www.historicvideoarchives.com/

Women in Engineering:
http://www.engineergirl.org

Woodworking:
http://www.am-wood.com/march99/trivet.html