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Anyone who reads or attends an ITEA conference will quickly discover that the current trend is to teach the technological-design process and include principles of engineering in technology education classes. We struggled for a long time at our school with how to make this happen within the drafting curriculum that we teach. Over the past few years, we have developed, borrowed, and stolen some really good ideas and would like to share them with other technology education teachers.
From the standpoint of finding high quality practical design projects, the best thing we ever did was to get involved within our own school and help out with projects that are going on in our school district. We have also done design projects for local townships and boroughs, non-profit organizations, Eagle Scout projects, and much more.
Redesign Your School Building
In the wake of Columbine, 9/11/01, and other tragedies, it dawned on most school districts that their buildings were not designed with security in mind because we weren't having so many of these kinds of problems 50 years ago. So my class decided to redesign our high school to provide for increased security, accommodate a...
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