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ASEE Engineering K-12 Center - Educator's Page
How Stuff Works - How Hydraulic Machines Work
Articles on different machines that use hydraulics, including pictures.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics competition
JETS (Junior Engineering Technology Society) - Educator's Page
I Support Learning
Profi pneumatics kits
Lego Engineering
Providing information and resources to educators to teach engineering concepts by building projects with
Legos.
National Instruments
Lego® Mindstorms® NXT - Powered by NI (National Instruments) LabVIEW
Project
Lead the Way (PLTW) – high school and middle school
engineering
Teach Engineering
An Arm and a Leg
Will water (liquid) or air (gas) make an artificial limb more efficient? Help your students discover the answer by designing and building an artificial limb using a simple syringe system.
Hydraulic Arm Challenge
Create three teams, each with a different task, to design and build a mechanical arm that can lift and move an empty soda can using hydraulics.
Bridging Technology with Fun
(March 13, 2008)
Teachers update “your father’s” shop class.
A School Where STEM Is King
(3/27/08)
“A selective, specialized high school in Baltimore uses an interdisciplinary
approach that enables students to experience STEM as a way of life.”
Encouraging Girls to Enter Engineering
(2/4/08)
“Claiming the workforce faces a profound lack of women engineers, the National Engineers Week Foundation wants the professional community to discard myths about what’s holding girls from pursuing engineering.
Port “Top Example” of Community Dedicated to Technology in Schools
(2/5/08)
Maine technology company donates money and soft ware to public schools to promote math, science and engineering.
In the South Bronx Robotics and Rebirth
(1/30/08)
A FIRST robotics team transforms an inner city school and its students.
“Kids Think It’s a
Game” (1/12/08)
“Teachers learn how to integrate engineering concepts in their classrooms.”
First Canadian School Joins Project Lead the Way
Robotics, Electronics Update
"Shop" Classes
(1/10/08)
Pupils
Play with "Stuff" and Learn
(1/6/08)
Hands on Engineering Education in Chaska (MN)
(11/12/07)
Educational Pipeline to the Future
(11/6/07)
In Indiana, an innovative program for 6th through 11th graders, the Rose Hulman's Explore Engineering program, helps to prepare the next generation for careers in engineering, math and the sciences.
High Tech Chiefs Establish Fund to Buoy Public Education in State
(10/24/07)
Massachusetts CEOs fund programs to improve K-12 public education.
When Science Suddenly
Mattered, in Space and in Class
(9/25/07)
What's changed in science education since Sputnik
(1957).
Club Expands Formula Getting Girls in Science
(9/23/07)
Getting girls interested in science at an early age and nurturing that interest through middle school, high school and
college.
Half of Pupils Fail to Get Basic Standards in Three R's
(8/24/07)
A business leader in the UK warns
about 50% of 16 year olds failed to receive passing marks in
subjects such as English and math and what this may mean for
the workforce. This article also includes information on
Subjects in Demand and Subjects in Decline.
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