Offers a technology education activity on the subject of manufacturing processes. Includes background information, concepts presented, objectives, equipment list, procedures, and suggested follow-up activities. (JOW)

Discusses the application of petroleum technology and presents activities designed to raise students' awareness of the importance of petroleum-based products in their lives. Includes a handout designed to help students understand the refining processes in which the crude oil from the drill site is transformed into nearly 6,000 petroleum-based…

Presents learning activities for occupations in construction technology, designing a beam, and simple machines. (JOW)

Describes an activity for high school students on household plastic wraps to introduce polymer science. Tests wraps for added plasticizers and stress and strain properties. Suggests focus points for student evaluation. (YDS)

This instructor's guide contains the materials required to teach a competency-based introductory course in concrete reinforcing to students who have chosen to explore careers in construction. It contains three units: concrete reinforcing materials, concrete reinforcing tools, and applied skills. Each instructional unit includes some or all of the…

Provides insight into the exciting future of robotics. Includes a student quiz and possible student outcomes. (JOW)

Discusses trends in writing and publishing of children's books during the 1980s. Explores issues of economic background, change in educational structure, racism and sexism in children's fiction, immediacy in fiction, multicultural writing, and the need to offer children a range of reading materials. (MG)

Describes the wood technics program at Fox Valley Technical College. Includes a week-by-week course design schedule, related course work, equipment needs, and a floor plan of the shop. (JOW)

These distributive education training and development plans for secondary-level programs provide lists of competencies a student needs to hold a job in sales and marketing occupational areas. The design of the training plans is based on a "pyramid" which incorporates the following five sections or levels of competencies (from general to…

This competency-based curriculum guide on the specialty area of concrete masonry is part of the Introduction to Construction series. The series is designed with the flexible training requirements of open shop contractors, preapprenticeship programs, multicraft high school programs, technology education programs, and cooperative education programs…

From her experiences as a writing consultant, the author gives examples of ways to motivate clients to improve their writing skills. (PD)

Shows how a first-grade class explored the activities that are completed by people who design products, develop production systems, use materials and machines to make goods, and market the output from manufacturing plants. (JOW)

This document is intended to help education and training institutions deliver the Machine Tool Advanced Skills Technology (MAST) curriculum to a variety of individuals and organizations. MAST consists of industry-specific skill standards and model curricula for 15 occupational specialty areas within the U.S. machine tool and metals-related…

This document is intended to help education and training institutions deliver the Machine Tool Advanced Skills Technology (MAST) curriculum to a variety of individuals and organizations. MAST consists of industry-specific skill standards and model curricula for 15 occupational specialty areas within the U.S. machine tool and metals-related…

This document is intended to help education and training institutions deliver the Machine Tool Advanced Skills Technology (MAST) curriculum to a variety of individuals and organizations. MAST consists of industry-specific skill standards and model curricula for 15 occupational specialty areas within the U.S. machine tool and metals-related…