Explore engineering technology with this unit. Students will study how to design and execute two types of homemade vehicles using elastic.

Due to recent advances in technology and engineering, new innovations in equipment are helping to support the game of football in every respect.

Students use the engineering design process to build a working windmill out of everyday materials. Lesson explores the technology behind wind energy being used to generate energy in businesses and homes worldwide.

Article discussing the history of the modern flush toilet and the under-appreciated impact it has had on modern civilizations. Includes an animation showing how a flush toilet works.

This resource provides information about careers for computer systems analysts, computer engineers, and computer scientists. Includes information about the nature of the work, working conditions, employment, training, job outlook,...

Engineers use infrared technology to develop equipment and systems for a variety of industries. Teams of young scholars are challenged to test the limitations of infrared in a basic television remote control to conceive a way to point...

This article investigates the growing industry of pharming, or genetically engineering and growing crops in order to produce pharmaceutical drugs. While there is huge potential for this industry, the article concentrates on the...

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.

NASA and PBS have joined forces to provide a lesson plan that will enable students to analyze data that documents a warming planet. Videos and other necessary documents for the lesson plan are provided. PBS TeacherLine also provides a...

Twenty-three university-level lectures, available in audio, video, or text format, from a course on the architecture of ancient Rome. With coverage of Roman engineering and technology, materials, and significant structures and sites.

A strategic assessment of the role that the Internet is playing in the political process of America. The article looks at trends and makes predictions. Although geared toward the Department of Defense, the article is very comprehensible...

Lesson plan examines the possibility that the contemporary climate change is due to natural solar cycles. Objectives are to review the evidence of total solar irradiance, analyze data to understand the influence of solar variability, and...

This lesson plan combines information literacy and technology skills with subject area skills. It is designed to be a collaborative effort between the classroom teacher and the school librarian. The topic of conestoga wagons is reseached...

Nuclear fission energy accounts for a large portion of energy production worldwide. New plants will use improved technologies. There is also research underway to explore how to harness the energy produced from nuclear fusion, but this...

West Virginia STEAM is a learning module with a series of videos designed to inspire middle and high school students to consider careers in science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics. They are produced by West Virginia...