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Science and Technology Template
a Template for the Scientific Process
Technology Web Quests Digital Video Production
Our students are learning to use Computer Aided Design (CAD) through a donation of progeCAD 2009 Professional by progeSOFT North America and iCADsales.com!
Click HERE to view our iCODE Project Page The iCODE project offers middle school and high school students from Boston and Lowell a year-long enrichment experience, encompassing an after-school program and weekend events. Participating students will complete a range of hands-on engineering projects, featuring microcontroller platforms developed by the principal investigators. |
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Curriculum Overview The
Technology Education curriculum at the Sullivan
school is designed to promote the study of communications, transportation,
power and energy, manufacturing, construction and engineering by providing a
wide variety of critical thinking and problem solving activities. Students
will work to develop the scientific process and inquiry skills of predicting,
hypothesizing, experimenting, inferring, collecting data and analysis.
Cooperative learning and learn by doing is the foundation of these activities.
5th Grade - Communications Systems - MicroWorlds computer animation - computer graphics and multimedia communications presentations - Communications word processing - History and impacts of Transportation Technology - Introduce the Four Technological Systems (emphasizing the Transportation System Model), the Seven Technological Resources, and the three Xport methods (land, sea & air). Investigate alternative sources consisting of Hydropower, Bio Mass, Solar Power, Nuclear Power, Wind Power and WebQuests. 6th Grade - Communications – Simple Machines - Electricity and Magnetism - Bridges and Arches - Forces and structures physical science - mathematics - power and energy, measurement systems - Lego Dacta Technic II curriculum of complex machines. Hands-on learning activities in physical science include power and energy, communications and transportation systems and WebQuest. 7th
Grade - Communications CADD (computer aided drafting and design) –
World of Construction – Manufacturing - data collecting, spreadsheets - word
processing - charts and graphs. Measurement systems - Power & Energy -
Introduce the four types of energy (Mechanical, Thermal, Nuclear, and
Electro/Magnetic) their production, distribution, and use. Manufacturing,
tools and materials, machines and processes - Custom Production methods -
student self directed learning approach problem solving - flow charts -
production process. History and impacts of Energy Technology, Computer
graphics generations in design and
WebQuests.
8th
Grade - Communications authoring with HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
web page development - digital photography - word processing - spreadsheets -
computer
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