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50 Years of ERIC
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Butts, Teena – TIES: The Magazine of Design and Technology Education, 2000
The Delaware (Ohio) School District developed a technology center where teachers could expose students to different kinds of technology, problem solving, and career exploration. Modules and hands-on experiences reflect the national technology education standards. (SK)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Learning Modules, Resource Centers
Baltazar, William; Buncher, David; Millson, David – TIES: The Magazine of Design and Technology Education, 1999
Describes high school students' preparations for the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition at the Kennedy Space Center. Provides step-by-step guidelines for participation. (JOW)
Descriptors: Competition, High Schools, Robotics, Technology Education
Petrina, Stephen; Hall, Richard; Hill, Ann Marie; McAdam, Donald – TIES: The Magazine of Design and Technology Education, 1999
A student-designed project combined bridge construction and ecology. Students selected a site and designed five different bridges. (JOW)
Descriptors: Design, Ecology, Environmental Influences, Higher Education
Buxton, Richard – TIES: The Magazine of Design and Technology Education, 1999
A program in a materials/prototyping lab provided the structure for a year-long research activity. Students could test physical properties of a specific material or explore the use of a material in a new application. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: High School Seniors, High Schools, Research Projects, Technology Education
Ham, Jan – TIES: The Magazine of Design and Technology Education, 1998
Project offers grades 3-8 students hands-on design practice creating built environments to solve a society-based architectural problem. Students plan buildings, draw floor plans, and make scale models of the structures that are then used in related interdisciplinary activities. (Author)
Descriptors: Architectural Drafting, Architecture, Building Design, Built Environment
Merrow, Josh – TIES: The Magazine of Design and Technology Education, 1998
Junior high students designed their own bicycles from scratch and built them from steel tubing and salvaged parts. The project led to discoveries in math and physics and confidence in working with tools and materials. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Junior High Schools
Gray, Stephen – TIES: The Magazine of Design and Technology Education, 1998
The "Virtuosi" research program is a computer-aided design program that enables designers not only to manipulate two-dimensional pattern shapes, which has been done before, but to work these patterns into three-dimensional styles. (JOW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Design, Fashion Industry, Technology Education, Three Dimensional Aids