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The iCODE project offers middle school and high school students from Boston and Lowell a year-long enrichment experience, encompassing an after-school program and weekend events. Participating students will complete a range of hands-on engineering projects, featuring microcontroller platforms developed by the principal investigators. |
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Curriculum
Overview
The
Technology Education curriculum at the Sullivan
school is designed to promote the study of communications, transportation,
power and energy, manufacturing, construction and engineering by providing a
wide variety of critical thinking and problem solving activities. Students
will work to develop the scientific process and inquiry skills of predicting,
hypothesizing, experimenting, inferring, collecting data and analysis.
Cooperative learning and learn by doing is the foundation of these activities.
5th
Grade -
Communications Systems - MicroWorlds computer animation - computer graphics
and multimedia communications presentations - Communications word processing
- History and impacts of Transportation Technology - Introduce the Four
Technological Systems (emphasizing the Transportation System Model), the Seven
Technological Resources, and the three Xport methods (land, sea & air). Investigate alternative sources consisting of Hydropower, Bio Mass, Solar Power, Nuclear Power, Wind Power, and Geothermal. John
Collins Integration writing skills, WebQuests
6th
Grade -
Communications – Simple Machines - Electricity and Magnetism - Bridges and
Arches - Forces and structures physical science - mathematics - power and
energy, measurement systems - Lego Dacta Technic II curriculum of complex
machines. Hands-on learning activities in physical science include power and
energy, communications and transportation systems. John Collins Integration
writing skills, WebQuests
7th
Grade - Communications CADD (computer aided drafting and design) –
World of Construction – Manufacturing - data collecting, spreadsheets - word
processing - charts and graphs. Measurement systems - Power & Energy -
Introduce the four types of energy (Mechanical, Thermal, Nuclear, and
Electro/Magnetic) their production, distribution, and use. Manufacturing,
tools and materials, machines and processes - Custom Production methods -
student self directed learning approach problem solving - flow charts -
production process. History and impacts of Energy Technology, Computer
graphics generations in design. John Collins Integrated writing skills,
WebQuests
8th
Grade - Communications authoring with HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
web page development - digital photography - word processing - spreadsheets -
computer
graphics - graphs and charts multimedia
communications presentations. Transportation Communications - Physical Science
- Mathematics - Power and Energy - Measurement Systems - Computer Graphics
generations in design. CADD (computer aided drafting and design) - data
collecting - spreadsheets charts and graphs - study of aerodynamics and
propulsion. John Collins Integration writing skills, WebQuests

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