Technology Education
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Web Resources

Content Resources

Professional Resources

Content Resources

Aeronautics and Math

Designed for Middle School level students who are interested in working with aeronautics stuff and Plane Math.

Amusement Park Physics

Amusement Park Physics (Scott Report S & E). The Annenberg/CPB "Learner Online" program provides the Amusement Park Physics Website. At the site, the user can learn more about how physics laws affect the designs of roller coasters, bumper car collisions, carousels, free fall rides, and pendulum rides. A highlight of the site is the opportunity to design a roller coaster and experiment with bumper car collisions. Furthermore, links to related resources are also available.

Bridge Building

WestPoint Bridge Building free software. The United State Military Academy of WestPoint, NY is making this software available to educators and parishioners of civil engineering.

Geometry of a Sphere

Rice University and the Park City Mathematics Institute makes available the Geometry of a Sphere Website. Sections included at the site are Basic Information about Spheres, Area on the Sphere, the Area of a Spherical Triangle: Girard's Theorem, Consequences of Girard's Theorem, a Proof of Euler's Formula, and Appendices. The site provides exercises in conjunction with diagrams and detailed summaries of discussed topics. This resource should be very useful to high school as well as undergraduate students.

How Stuff Works

Allow your students to browse a web site that they can learn how stuff works.

Mars Project

Mars Millennium Project. The countdown to a new century provides a unique opportunity to engage America's youth in charting a course for the future. The Mars Millennium Project, an official White House Millennium Council Youth Initiative, challenges students across the nation to design a community yet to be imagined - for the planet Mars.

Meteorology Guide

The Online Meteorology Guide [Frames, RealPlayer G2, CosmoPlayer, Shockwave] (Scout Report for S & E). This excellent learning resource, the Online Meteorology Guide, is provided by the Weather World 2010 Project (WW2010) (described in the May 23, 1997 issue of the Scout Report) at the University of Illinois. Modules included at the Website are Light and Optics, Clouds and Precipitation, Forces and Winds, Air Masses and Fronts, Weather Forecasting, Severe Storms, Hurricanes, El Nino, and the Hydrologic Cycle. Each of these sections provides images, animations, computer simulations, and diagrams, as well as summaries to further explain the rudimentary concepts of atmospheric science. An interesting facet of this site is the Archived Case Studies section, which contains detailed descriptions of memorable weather events such as Hurricane Andrew. Users have the option of selecting a graphics-based or text-based interface for each and every page. This resource is useful for K-12, undergraduate, and graduate students.

Principles of Technology

Principles of Technology teachers, this is cool stuff!!

Wind Tunnels

NASA Wind tunnel free software. Everything you wanted to know about wind tunnels and then some! How to build them, history, free software, and more.

Professional Resources

A Facilitator's Guide for Partnerships and Advisory Groups

This is an introduction to partnerships and Advisory Groups, Organizing Effectively, Managing Effectively, Promoting your Partnership and Advisory Group. This is a product available from the Instructional Materials Lab at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Advisory Council

This is an extremely valuable document to assist in the establishment of a Technology Education Program Advisory Council.  This particular excerpt was taken from the "Missouri Industrial Technology/Technology Education Guide" 1991, -- Chapter 7:  Organizing and Managing the ITE/TE Program, Part 4: Using Advisory Councils.

      
          Using Advisory Councils

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Behavior and Discipline

Teachers, this one shares a step-by-step approach to handling misbehavior of students.

Educational Renaissance Planners

Educational Renaissance Planners was founded by 

Alan November to promote the effective use of information and communication technologies that support and enhance learning for children and communities. ER Planners includes a team of researchers, writers, and educational leaders who bring a variety of work and educational experiences, skills, and knowledge together.

Graphic Organizers - Are you looking for assistance with development of your rubrics for scoring?  Then you need to check out this site for templates and tools for graphic organizers for a variety of activities.

Rubrics For Teachers - This is a web based tool to assist teachers who use rubrics and don't have the time to do them from scratch.

Teamwork Rubrics On-Line - This site provides the tools to generate a teamwork rubric on-line for cooperative group student activities.

Technology Education Web Site Review - Mark Treadwell’s “Teachers @ Work Internet Tools For Teachers” web site is a dandy!  This particular link has nearly 50 Technology Education web site reviews and links to each of those reviewed sites.

Educational Testing and Assessment

Education Testing and Assessment Information: Educational Testing Service Princeton, New Jersey 08541-0001. The Center for Performance Assessment was created by ETS in 1992 to expand knowledge and expertise about:

How to design and develop                 
     performance assessments,
How to gather and interpret evidence  about
     what students learn and accomplish,
What policies and practices may be
      required for effective and equitable use of
      these assessments,
How the assessment process can most
      fruitfully contribute to educational reform,
      and
How to evaluate the contexts and
      consequences of these assessments.

NCES

National Center for Education Statistics is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the US and other nations.

TTTe

TTTe is an online extension of The Technology Teacher. It is a new format in which ITEA publishes additional journal-quality articles.  This is a good professional resource for any grade level technology education teacher.

 
NASSP September 1999 Bulletin

Important Information Every TE Teacher Should Know About - Technology Education Advocated in Secondary School Principals Journal (63 pages): ITEA members have been working for the past year with the National Association for Secondary School Principals (NASSP) to create a series of articles advancing thought about technology education. NASSP works to assist principals at the secondary level in providing curriculum leadership. The following articles were featured in the September, 1999 issue: "Why Technology Should Be Integrated into the Curriculum As a Core Subject" by Anthony F. Gilberti; "Technology Education: Essential for a Balanced Education" by R. Thomas Wright; Design and Problem Solving in Technology Education" by Rodney L. Custer; "Technology Education in the Middle Level School: Its Role and Purpose" by Mark E. Sanders; "The Untapped Power of Technology: Its Role in Mathematics, Science, Technology, and Engineering Education" by Pam B. Newberry; "Putting Technology Education Standards into Practice" by William E. Dugger,Jr. ITEA's Executive Director, Kendall N. Starkweather, indicated that- "This is just one of the many ongoing efforts by ITEA to articulate technology education beyond the profession and at the administrative level. He noted that the authors of the articles were outstanding in making the case for a strong technology education program at the secondary level. These 63 pages represent one of the largest series of articles to ever appear in a journal outside of the immediate profession. " Copies of this journal can be obtained from NASSP at $15.00 each. For more information contact:

 NASSP Bulletin

 1904 Association Drive

Reston, VA 20191-1537

Reference Vol. 83, No. 608