The Technology Teacher articles from October 2002

The Technology Teacher archives from October 2002

ITEA member to be the first teacher in space. (In the News & Calendar).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Sixteen years after the Challenger explosion, NASA announced that Christa McAuliffe's fellow teacher and one-time understudy, Barbara Morgan, will ride aboard a shuttle in 2004. NASA Administrator, Sean O'Keefe, indicated that, "It is time...

Space Day 2003, celebrating the future of flight. (In the News & Calendar).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... As the nation prepares to commemorate the centennial of flight in the coming year, Space Day 2003, the award-winning education initiative, will honor the previous 100 years of aviation and aerospace accomplishments while hoping to inspire and...

TechXplore online competition. (In the News & Calendar).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The Electronics Industries Foundation is launching TechXplore, a 21st century approach to science and technology learning that marries the power of the Internet with the excitement of the electronic industries. TechXplore pairs technical...

National Engineers Week Future City Competition. (In the News & Calendar).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Now entering its eleventh year, the Future City Competition invites seventh- and eighth-graders to design cities on computers and in three-dimensional models. Guiding the students are teachers and local volunteers from every engineering...

Free interactive CD-ROM game provides virtual home building experience for middle and junior high school students. (In the News & Calendar).
October 1, 2002... This fall, middle and junior high school educators will have a new, interactive tool to supplement classroom lessons in core subjects and engage students in a virtual experience that reinforces such basic skills as problem solving and decision...

Calendar. (In the News & Calendar).
October 1, 2002... October 16-19, 2002 The Florida Technology Education Association (FTEA) 73rd Annual Conference will be held in Indian Rocks Beach. For information, visit the Web site at www.ftea.com. October 17-19, 2002 The New England...

You & ITEA.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... ITEA Standards Translated into Japanese The Standards for Technological Literacy document was recently translated into Japanese. Dr. Hidetoshi Miyakawa of Aichi University of Education in Japan, a visiting ITEA scholar for one year with the...

Photobioreactor: biotechnology for the technology education classroom.
October 1, 2002... Introduction With the advent of Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology, ITEA, 2000, technology education teachers are being encouraged to include biotechnology as part of their instruction. For many, this...

Nut + bolt + bottle = robotics 101. (IDSA).
October 1, 2002... That the human race is naturally a tool-making group of beings is generally acknowledged. Depending on your point of departure, industrial design, as a corollary human activity, has long been practiced. Humans have always sought means to make...

Explore engineering with online resources from the National Academy of Engineering.
October 1, 2002... Engineering is problem solving. It's invention and design. It is applying scientific knowledge to create new things and better ways of doing with limited time, resources, and technology. The EngineerGirl Web site explores engineering...

Navigating by good gyrations. (The Space Place).
October 1, 2002... Many people have earned their living making maps so that others can find their way around Earth's lands and seas without getting lost. If we have to work so hard to find our way around the surface of our little planet, imagine how hard it is to...

The effects of force on a structure: strength and stability. (Resources in Technology).
October 1, 2002... Introduction Flying over large cities, one is captivated By high-rise buildings and other landmarks characterized as special structures (Bradshaw, et al., 2002). These types of structures are spread over all major cities in the world. ...

Resources in technology.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Engineering offers many exciting career areas from the depths of the oceans to the space above us. While this article has focused on several aspects of civil and mechanical engineering as they relate to construction, there are also many...

Translating Standards for Technological Literacy into curriculum.
October 1, 2002... In the spring of 2000, the International Technology Education Association (ITEA) released the much anticipated Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology (STL) (ITEA, 2000). The major purpose of this document was...