TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY

Resources

Districts may find the following web sites useful in obtaining information and services. The New Jersey Department of Education does not recommend or endorse any materials. Web site addresses frequently change and searching titles may result in different addresses.

Career Clusters

• Arts, A/V Technology and Communications
• Business, Management and Administration
• Information Technology
• Science, Technology,  Engineering and Mathematics

Higher Education

• Inventory of Programs Offered at New Jersey 2-Year Institutions of Higher Education
• Inventory of Programs Offered at New Jersey 4-Year Institutions of Higher Education

Strategies for Success: Tips, Issues and Trends

• Integration

  • Technology Integration: An Overview
  • Engineering in the K-12 Classroom: An Analysis of Current Practices & Guidelines for the Future
  • An Engineering Primer for Outreach to K-4 Education
  • Engineering and Standards for Technological Literacy
    
    
    
• Project-Based Learning
• Eutopia
  
  
• Constructivism
  • CONSTRUCTIVISM: From Philosophy to Practice
  • 21^st Century Skills
    
    
• Other State and District Standards
  • Lessons by NETS
  • NETS for Students
  • Profiling Educational Technology Integration
  • Arizona Technology Education Standards
  • Connecticut Department of Education Technology Education Framework
  • British Columbia
  • Manitoba
  • Idaho
  • The Technology Education Lab
  • Guilford County Schools
  • Mesa Public Schools
  • Montgomery Public Schools
    
    
• Lesson Plan Databases
  • Access Excellence Exchange
  • The Educator's Reference Desk
  • Technology Integration
  • Educational Technology Clearing House
  • Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
  • For Lesson Plans.Com
  • Best Practices of Educational Technology
  • Technology Lesson Plans
  • Lesson Plan Z.com
  • Cyber Smart!
  • Awaresome Library
  • Thirteen Online
  • The Teacher Corner
  • Daily Lesson Plan
  • Education World
  • Minerals Information Institute
  • Link to Learning
  • The Educator’s Reference Desk
  • National Geographic Lesson Plans
  • Early Childhood Literacy Lessons
  • Lesson Planz.Com
  • Discoveryschool.com
• Technology Education
• City Technology
• Bridges
• Domes
• Skyscrapers
• Dams
• Tunnels
• Exploring Simple Machines
• Bridges
• Lesson Plan and Activity Link for Technology
• Webquests: Provides an array of Technology Education activities.

Educational Activities

• Graphic Organizers
• Simple Machines Inventions
• Simple Machines
• Sketching Gadget Anatomy
• Be Inventive
• The elements of machines
• Simple Machines
• Educational Programs at the Tech Museum
• Wind Tunnel Design
• Marvelous Machines
• ITEA
• Botball Robotics Program
• Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD)
• FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
• Flight-History.com
• Graphic Comm Central
• JETS
• Manufacturing is Cool
• NASA's Education Homepage
• NASA's Space Place
• Teacher Scholastic
• TechChallenge
• Technically Speaking
• Ties Magazine
• Symposium of Technological Literacy
• The Elements of Simple Machines
• Simple Machines Learning
• History of Five Simple Machines
• Field Trips For Simple Machines
• Simple Machines
• Resource List
• How Stuff Works
• Incline Planes.WeirdRichard
• MIT’s Inventor Handbook
• MIT’s Games and Trivia
• CEEE GirlTECH '95 Lesson Plan
• Wikipedia Mathematics
• ASSE Lesson Plans
• Time Engineers
  
  
• Grades K-5
  All about Computers
  Inventors and Inventions 1
  Inventors and Inventions 2: Air and Space
  Technology at Work
  Technology at Work 2
  Simple Machines
  Student Activity Sheets and Teacher's Guides
  Machines and Wheels
  Simple Machines
  Pieces of Science
  University of Arkansas - AgriScience Project: Simple Machines
  Math Challenges for K-5 Learners via the Internet
  
  
  
• Grades 6-8
  Alexander and Alexandria
  Bridges
  The Clone Age
  Destination Mars
  Extraterrestrials
  Eyes in the Sky
  Famous Bridges
  Future Body
  Higher and Higher: Amazing Skyscrapers
  Invention: Computer Technology
  Inventor's Workshop
  Origins
  Reaching New Heights
  Robots
  Stable and Unstable Structures
  Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World
  Tunnels: Underground Marvels
  Understanding Computing
  
  
• Grades 9-12
  Cyberspace
  Lost in Time
  The Real Bionic Man
  Understanding Space Travel
  Understanding Television
  The War of the Worlds
  
• Chart the Weather for Cities Around the World

Web Quests

• Exploring Simple Machines
• Simple Machines Invention
  

CyberEthics & Safety

• U.S. Copyright Office
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
• 2^nd Circuit Court of Appeals
• The Copyright Clearance Center
• AN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW PRIMER FOR MULTIMEDIA AND WEB DEVELOPERS
• Web Wise Kids
• Cyber Ethics for Kids
• CyberSpacers
• Copyright Kids
• Creativity in the Classroom
  
  

Graphic Organizers

• Teachervision.com
• Graphic Organizers
• Kidspiration Lessons
• Teacher Assessment Cards
• Casa Notes
• Test Generator
• Certificate Maker
• Think Quests
  

NJ Best Practices

• Creating a Multimedia Presentation
• Inventions and Innovations
• Through A Butterfly’s Eye
• Technical Difficulties
• School Sets Sail on the Internet
• Class Secretary
• Wired Words
• Over the River and Through the Woods
• Rain Forest Robotics
• Wireless Wizards
• Multi-Media Oscars

Other

• Learning Points