Teaching Resources

Resource	Description
32 Classroom Project Ideas	A selection of science- and engineering-related project ideas provided by the Pitsco company.
ASME Services for Teachers and Engineers	ASME Pre-College education services include teaching materials and partnership opportunities to help teachers and engineers to strengthen the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics skills of young people and to assist them in becoming more aware of the role of engineering in their lives.
Best Practices in High School Engineering	Through this program, ASME is seeking to identify, select, and disseminate exemplary pre-engineering or engineering design and product realization practices in high school curricula. These practices can include coursework, lesson plans, project activities, and technical curriculum that provide pre-college students with realistic hands-on experience in engineering design and manufacturing principles. The vision of ASME's "Best Practices" project is to improve pre-college level science and engineering technology literacy and develop hands-on and innovative engineering related curricula that integrates teamwork and interdisciplinary application, through the development of a network of high school teachers and engineers.
Carnegie Mellon - Teaching With and About Robots	There is much more to robotics education than just teaching about robots. Students at all grade levels are fascinated with robots; and educators have found that teaching with robots provides a new and exciting way to interest and motivate their students. Robots are finding their way into the classroom to help teach science, math, mechanics, teamwork and even management skills.
Engineering in the K-12 Classroom	23-page PDF document
GEARS-IDS Educators' Workshop	8-page PDF document
GEARS-IDS Invention and Design System	The GEARS-IDS Invention and Design System gives teachers the Industrial Strength tools they need to create world class engineering and robotics challenges for their students in the comfort and convenience of their own classrooms.
Igus Inc. - Young Engineers Support Program	The program offers free donations to students and engineering competitions across the U.S. and Canada.
NASA's Observatorium Teacher's Guides	Welcome to the Observatorium's teacher's guides. We realize how busy teachers can get, and we know that with all the information on the Web it can be hard to read the articles and apply them to the classroom. Therefore, we've decided to give teachers a helping hand. A teacher's guide has been developed to accompany each article in the Observatorium. These guides are very basic, providing teachers with a start in the right direction. We encourage educators to print the guides and use them in the classroom or at home.
Pitsco Educational Supplies	Through its Ideas & Solutions Catalog, Pitsco has been dedicated to bringing excitement and success to the classroom through innovative, hands-on activities for students. Pitsco emphasizes innovation through the development of relevant products and activities in areas such as transportation, communication, engineering, discovery and invention, and aerospace. With our own activities and proprietary products, Pitsco provides teachers and schools with ideas and solutions that excite students about learning through hands-on and technology-based activities.
Teachers Residency at Fallingwater	The Fallingwater Teacher Residency helps you use architecture to spark creative thinking in any subject area, while addressing various learning styles and multiple intelligences. Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater serves as the classroom in which Teacher Residents study the lessons of Wright's organic architecture; they then apply them in the hands-on workshops and studios that follow. The Residency uses an activity -based inquiry approach with an emphasis on problem solving.
The Development of a Pre-College Engineering Curriculum for High School Students: Design and Implementation	In an effort to increase awareness of science and engineering education in the northwest Florida area, the University of West Florida engineering department, in partnership with the Okaloosa County School District, initiated a pre-college engineering program to be implemented over the four years of high school education. The program is designed to include four basic and intermediate level courses specifically tailored towards electrical and computer engineering and computer science majors.
Using the Electrocardiogram to Teach Biomedical En	Students will be able to identify the critical characteristics of an ECG (also known as EKG from the German Electrokardiogram) trace and describe how these relate to the cycle of a beating heart. Students will be able to explain how the heart generates electrical signals. Students will learn about electric dipoles and electric fields in a unique and interesting context. Students will be able to relate the parameters of a cardiac disease to its effect on the ECG.

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