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Building Green: Construction for the 21st Century
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Phillipson, Todd – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2012
At Jefferson County Vocational School (JCVS) in Bloomingdale, Ohio, students get a lesson on building green with the construction of a home in the school's subdivision. The home is being built using Energy Star guidelines so that it may be identified as an Energy Star home. The goal for the Jefferson County Vocational Schools Board of Education…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, Energy Conservation, Decision Making, Conservation (Environment)
Hovercraft Project Gives Learning a Lift
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Benini, Jim – Tech Directions, 2010
This article describes an activity for the author's Principles of Technology class in which students bring together the concepts of force, work, and rate, and show how they apply to mechanical, fluid, electrical, and thermal systems by building and flying a hovercraft. Building, testing, flying, and racing hovercrafts isn't something very many…
Descriptors: Motor Vehicles, Scientific Concepts, Construction (Process), Technology