Handout
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Software Developers

For Students 9th - 10th
A career as a computer software engineer is profiled. Included: nature of the work, training, advancement, employment, job outlook. projections data, earnings, related occupations. A detailed examination of this career is clearly presented.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Land Surveying Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project resulted from of the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher, Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life application in...
Unit Plan
CBS

Tech Republic: Project Manager: Graphics 101

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Detailed beginner's tutorial in creating online graphics. Requires access to a bitmap editor. Choose among topics, or work the entire 15 page tutorial in order.
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Digital Mapping and Geographic Information Systems (Gis)

For Students 7th - 9th
Geographic information systems (GIS), once used predominantly by experts in cartography and computer programming, have become pervasive in everyday business and consumer use. This unit explores GIS in general as a technology about which...
Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Program Your Own Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teams of young scholars learn about the work of software engineers as they design a simple computer game using free software available in multiple languages.