December, 2005
How do you explain propulsion and relate it to a vehicle using a combustion engine? Animated engines may be the answer http://www.keveney.com/Engines.html

Summer, 2005
Wouldn't it be nice if you could demonstrate lift in a wing to students utilizing a interactive video tool. I found one with the search tool on the National Science Digital Library, nsdl.org. This is a great tool for finding curriculum and video clips. The web page I found was http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wright/airborne.html . If you are looking for a video description of a concept try the National Science Digital Library.

April, 2005
TeachEngineering contains units, lessons, and activities that all have an engineering connection.  The curricular items are standards based and fully searchable by standards, concepts or key words.  Everything shown on this site has a consistent look and feel in order to minimize teacher time spent understanding what is included in the items.
We also have a link to TeachEngineering on our curriculum resources page. TeachEngineering http://teachengineering.org/

March, 2005
Enhancing Education Through Technology Conferences
The Massachusetts Department of Education invites educators to its 2005 spring technology conferences focusing on how technology supports the goals of No Child Left Behind. These conferences will feature presentations by Massachusetts technology grants recipients, district technology directors, and professional development leaders. Click here to take a look. http://www.doe.mass.edu/conference/?ConferenceID=103

January, 2005
A great extra credit project for my classes last year was entering and submitted designs in the West Point Bridge Design Contest. This year I have done this activity as a club that meets during school once a week. This contest is held at a local and national level. Students can submit designs and view there ranking at the national level and there is also a local listing of schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The national ranking can be a bit discouraging but if the design is very good the local ranking will be more reflective of a quality structure. The national prizes include a $10,000 scholarship and laptop computers. Prizes at the local level include $100 and scientific calculators. Click here to take a look.