Product Description: Contains a set of Design and Make Activities and a range of Support Tasks to provide the knowledge, skills, and understanding students require to become technologically literate. The Teacher's manual correlates the activities to textbook chapters.

Product Description: Designed for use in middle school introductory technology education courses, Technology: Engineering Our World contains a strong emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math integration. It also helps student understand design processes and how to communicate their designs...read more

Technology: Shaping Our World is based on technology's underlying physical and scientific principles. The text helps students understand the technological world around them. The importance of materials, energy, people, and information to all technological activity is stressed. Problem solving and design applications are supported by various activities throughout the text. Written for middle school/high school introductory technology courses, this book is a leader in Technology, Science, and Math (TSM) integration. This versatile text can be easily utilized in a variety of technology education modules.-- Provides a thorough introduction to the major technologies: Communication, Manufacturing, Construction, and Transportation.-- Focuses on understanding technology as it affects the environment and people.-- Up-to-date coverage of current technology in computers, robots, medicines, and microelectronics.-- Includes a chapter on work and careers in technology.-- Chapters include Objectives, Summary, Key Terms, Test Questions, and Application Questions.

Product Description: Written for middle school introductory technology courses, the 2000 edition of Technology: Shaping Our World is firmly based on technology's underlying physical and scientific principles. This text is a leader in Technology, Science, and Math (TSM) integration, and helps students understand the technological world in which they live...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume is a collection of research and commentary by members of the Faculty of Education at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, evolving from institutional self study around the teacher education program at that university. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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