Automation Teacher Resources

Pupils analyze an article about fight traffic and answer questions.  In this investigative instructional activity students study flight and fill out a worksheet pertaining to the information that they just learned. 

Students create a PowerPoint presentation about bullies. Students prepare PowerPoint presentations after receiving a workshop on the Law against bullies in Puerto Rico.

Students research inventions and their role in the history of civilization. In this inventions lesson plan, students choose an invention from a grab bag and research information to answer the worksheet.

Students investigate commercial fishing by exploring the technical methods.  In this environmental instructional activity, students identify the fish that are most commonly consumed by humans and trace their path from ocean to...

Students identify the different types of measurements used in industry. In this technology lesson plan, students investigate how much power CEENBoT has. They collect data and graph results.

The downloadable monograph investigates feedback and automation.

On this site, find a challenge to design and build a machine that can make plane fuselage by wrapping a mold just like Boeing's carbon fiber placement machines. While working on the challenge, students will find a lesson plan, tips, and...

Why are fingerprints unique to each individual? This comprehensive interactive tutorial explains how fingerprints are classified and stored in AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System). Also explore how fingerprints are...

The American Heart Association wants to help create a new generation of life savers - teens who know how to perform CPR and use AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) to save lives. Be The Beat! teaches teens about heart health and...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations and the instruments that measure them. Here you can find a photograph of a solar-powered Surface Automated Measurement (SAM) site....

The National Weather Service presents this site on remote sensing. Learn about Doppler radar, the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS), and radiosondes. Review questions included.

A free rubric generator which works on Windows and Macintosh computers using Microsoft Word. The rubric generator lets you create reusable automated grading rubrics in Microsoft Word containing your own weighted assessment criteria and...

This site from Georgia State University Physics Department defines elastic potential energy and explains its origin. Provides an equation for computing elastic potential energy and an opportunity to practice solving problems with an...

An article about Douglas Engelbart's slogan of "augmentation not automation," and the key technology tools he helped provide.

The introduction of this article explains why GIS data is so critical to a government being able to plan for natural resources development and management. The article goes on to explain key geographic concepts, what GIS is and why it...

The Canada Science and Technology Museum tells the story of the evolution of the washing machine. Starting from the laborious laundry procedure of washing clothes by hand, learn how laundry was first mechanized. Then, came the...

The owner of a factory has two expensive robots to automate a manufacturing process. Use the topological concept of a configuration space to coordinate their actions and maximize their efficiency on the manufacturing floor.

Lighting is responsible for nearly one-third of the electricity use in buildings. One of the best ways to conserve energy is to make sure the lights are turned off when no one is in a room. This process can be automated using motion...

This tutorial provides a slideshow focusing on modifiers; it defines them, explains dangling and misplaced modifiers, gives examples, and tells how to prevent them. There is also a short automated slideshow of a practice example and its...

This SERIES FINALE of Crash Course Computer Science takes a look towards the future! In the past 70 years, electronic computing has changed how we live our lives, and it is just getting started. From ubiquitous computing, artificial...

Students develop and solidify their understanding of the concept of perimeter as they engage in a portion of the civil engineering task of land surveying, using the technology of a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot to automate this task.

An automated citation machine that turns any of your sources into citations in just a click. Using a citation generator helps students to integrate referencing into their research and writing routine, turning a time-consuming ordeal into...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology promises to automate and reshape business, commerce, and consumer activities worldwide. But AI also triggers concerns about privacy, potential racial bias, security, and plenty more. As a result,...

Computational thinking can be used to take a complex problem, understand what the problem is and develop possible solutions to solve or explain it. In these six Quest, students will learn about the four stages of computational thinking:...