Here are some great technology related sites

that you might be able to use in your teaching

(and some are just plain fun to visit!).


- ACTE - Association for Career and Technical Education

- A to Z Teacher Stuff

- Alternative Power Cars

 

Rocky Mountain Institute

EV World

Fuel Cell Information

 

- AMATEUR RADIO Information

- Amelia Earhart's Home Page

- American Association for the Advancement of Science

- American Manufacturers - Thomas Register Directory

- American Precision Museum - This home page will take you to the museum located in Windsor, Vermont which has a wealth of information on machinery of every type.

- Android World - This site is devoted to androids. An android is an anthropomorphic robot - i.e. a robot that looks like a human. Many android developers call their creations "humanoids" rather than androids. We also have robotics links, robot links, animatronics links, and research links.

- Appliance Parts - go to Sears Parts Store

- Click Here to see - Architecture Guide Jackie Craven explains why the Twin Towers fell so quickly to the fire and explosions on Tuesday - Sept. 11, 2001.

- ASEE Creative Crane Competition page at http://www.tech.farmingdale.edu/crane

- Ask a Scientist Site hosted by Argonne Lab.

- Ask Dr. Science Web Site - This site is the home of America's foremost authoritarian on the world around us. Or at least the world around him. "There is a thin line between ignorance and arrogance," he says, "and only I have managed to erase that line." Dr. Science is heard daily on radio stations throughout America and the world. You can join thousands of other science fans and have his Daily Question sent to you by email, or pick up a few points on your IQ by shopping at the Doctor Science S-Mart. How does Dr. Science know the secrets of the universe? He has a Masters Degree ... in Science!

- Ask ERIC

- Go to the ASME Student Design Contest Ideas Web Site

- Ask A NASA Scientist

- Atlas of the World

- ACTE - This home page will allow you to access information from the Association for Career and Technical Education (Formerly AVA) which has a Technology Ed. division.

- Auction E Bay Web Site

- Auctions - run by US Govt.

- Beakman's Electric Motor - From the TV show, Beakman's World, all the information so that you could actually build a working electric motor with so few parts.

- Best Greasy Spoon

- Best Scenic Drives

- Better Business Bureau

- Better Homes & Gardens

- Blue Web

- Bridge Building web site

- Britannica Online

- Building Big

- Busy Teachers' WebSite K-12

- Calendar Information - Need to know when Easter or Chanukah will be in 2001? This is the site to visit to get that kind of information.

- CARDS OF ALL TYPES

www.marlo.com
http://www.cardcentral.net/
http://www.greetingsonline.com/
www.messagemates/index.asp?
http://www.mypostcards.com/
http://www.hallmark.com/
Valentine
Greetings

- Car Shopping - Online Resources:

 

Autoweb.com

Autobytel.com

Autonation

Autotrader.com

Carday.com

Cars.com

CarsDirect.com

Carsmart

ConsumerReports.org

Automotive.com: Car Price guide

Edmunds

Intellichoice.com

InvoiceDealers

Kelly Blue Book

 

MSN Auto

- Concorde - Take a tour of cockpit at this BBC website

- Construction - Visit This Website For a FREE CD For MS/HS Students On "How To Build Homes Of Our Own"

- CRADLE OF AVIATION - To see pictures taken in November 2000 when NTEA held a meeting at museum click here.

- Currency Converter Web Site

- Design and Discovery - Pre-Engineering Curriculum for Middle School

- Design It Yourself / Do It Yourself

- Dictionary - a clean uncluttered dictonary/thesaurus

- Dictionary of Science and Technology: http://www.harcourt.com/dictionary/

- Digital Camera Resource page - Everything you ever wanted to know about digital cameras. News, reviews, summary table listing, a buyer's guide, glossary of technical terms, answers to frequently asked questions and more.

- Discovering Engineering

- Discovery Channel

- Do It Yourself

- Eagle Rock Junior High School's Technology Department in Idaho Falls, Idaho

- East Rockaway's Technology Department Web Page

- Educational Hot List - Franklin Institute

- Education World - "Where Educators Go To Learn"

- eHobbies - great site for info. on model trains, rockets and rc stuff.

- ehow! - the ultimate "How To" site

- Eisenhower National Clearinghouse

- Electronics Zone

- E-Mail Invitation Sites

 

Evite

The Plunge

Excite Invites

 

- What is Engineering?

- Click here to go to a web site on engineering

- Engineering Camps

SciServ
Petersons

- Engineer Girl

- National Engineers Week is not just seven days in February. It is a rich resource for teachers and students and although its activities culminate in late winter, its classroom support is available year round. Check out their site at:

http://www.eweek.org/site/Teachers/index.shtml

- National Society of Professional Engineers wants to share some of the secrets behind the nation's buildings, bridges, dams, factories and monuments:

- Greatest Engineering Achievements

- Energy Guide

- Energy Hot List - Related Sites - Franklin Institute

- Energy Information Sites

US Dept. of Energy

Alliance to Save Energy

American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy

Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology

The Energy Efficency and Renewable Energy Clearinghouse

Energy Star Program

- Ergonomics 4 Schools

- eVite.com - use this site to invite people to your next event

- Federal Consumer Information Center - tons of free information from federal govt.

- Federal Sales web site

- Flag - Visit this web site to order one from US govt.?

- Evolution of Flight

- Inventing Flight

- FLIGHTS AIRLINE TRAVEL

www.flifo.com
www.farefinder.com
www.travelocity.com
www.bestfares.com
www.reservationdesk.com
www.previewtravel.com
www.flightdiscount.com (Have to register)
www.biztravel.com
www.flymetrojet.com
www.Tvlink.com/welcome.htm

www.travelzoo.com
http://www.priceline.com/
http://flight.thetrip.com/flightstatus

- Fluid Power Systems - WNET

- Four County Tech Ed Association

- Franklin Institute - Educational Hot List of Sites

- Free Web Access -

AltaVista

BlueLight (Kmart)

Excite@Home

Freei

FreeWWWeb

Juno

NetZero

WorldSpy

- Future City Competition open to 7th & 8th grade student teams

- Garden City HS - Technology Department Homepage

- Gaze At The Future

- GENEALOGY

www.cindislist.com
www.First.com/fu/tmaps.html
www.census.gov/ftp/pubgenealogy/www/
www.connect-time.com/jan1998/Cover0.html
www.genealogy.org/~paf
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/

www.rootsweb.com

- Georgia Industrial Technology Education Association

- Glide Away - WNET

- Government Information

- Government Web Site

- Graphic Comm Central - a web site with tons of information on graphic arts

- Helpful House Hints

- Herricks H.S. - Technology Department Homepage

- Home Automation Web Sites

http://www.x10.com/homepage.htm

http://www.mousehouse.net/

- Home Design - Design Your own Home on this web site

- Home Improvement - a linked list of all the topics posted since October 98; very efficient and useful information on topics like Architecture, Henry Ford. Check this one out and thanks to Phil Horan for passing this one along!

- Homework Central

- How Everyday Things are Made - The goal of this site is to introduce kids and adults to the world of manufacturing topics and to do it in a fun way. The site shows how more than 40 everyday objects are made. There are about 4 hours of video built into the site, making it quite a virtual factory tour! It was developed as a result of a brainstorming session between the Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at Stamford University and a company that designs online courses on design and manufacturing topics.

- How Far Is It? - a web site that can tell you how far two places are apart anywhere on our planet earth.

- How Stuff Works - An interesting site for students that has many in-depth explanations on many, many technological devices from jet engines to smoke detectors.

- How To Do Anything

- Information Please

- Institute for Women In Trades, Technology & Science

- Internet Public Library

- Internal Revenue Service

- International Space Station

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html

European View of ISS

For a fun 3-D tour of the ISS, click here


- Internet Search Engines -
Try this new one: ixquick

About.com

AltaVista

Ask Jeeves

Direct Hit

DogPile

Excite

Google

HotBot

Infoseek

Lycos

Mamma.com

Netscape

Northern Light Search

WebCrawler

Yahoo

- Inventions and Inventors Web Pages :

Enchanted Learning - Inventors & Inventions

Smithsonian's Inventors and Innovations

Jerome & Dorothy Lemeson Center for the Study of Invention & Innovation

Spotlight: Biography - Inventors

Invention Dimensions

Inventure Place

History of Inventions

Our Technology Heritage

Popular Mechanics Time Machine

Time Warp

Ippy Online

The American Experience: Technology in America

Wacky Patent of the Month

Riley's kid Inventor Resources

Girl Tech Invention
Greatest Inventors and Inventions

3M Collaborative Invention Unit

Exploring Leonardo

Archimedes Home Page

Yahooligans!

Educational World

Inventors

Inventors Toolbox

US Patent Office

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office-Kids' Pages

Inventions with Wild and Wacky Games

Internet Scavenger Hunt: Inventors and Inventions

Inventors Workshop

- International Space Station - For a fun 3-D tour of the ISS, click here

- Kathy Schrock's Guide For Educators

- Kennedy Space Center

- Jamesville Dewitt Middle School - near Syracuse, NY

- Laser Challenge Game - Click Here

- Lawrence Middle School Tech. Dept.

- Lesson Plans Web Page - over 450 lesson plans (not all tech ed!)

- Long Island Children's Museum

- LI Mac Users Group

- Visit Web Site of Long Island Museum for Science And Technology

- Library of Congress

- Library Spot - a web site with links to almanaca, databases, online calculators and much more.

- Living on Earth

- MacAddict web site - great info for us Mac Addicts!

- Longwood JHS - Trish Poggio's web page on MagLev Moving Into the Future

- Magnetic Levitation

- Boeing Maglev Project

- California Mag Lev Project

- Mag Lev 2002 Florida

- Old Dominion University Mag Lev Project

- Manufacturing Information from SME

- Map Sites

www.mapsonus.com
http://www.mapquest.com/
http://www.mapblast.com/
www.proximus.com/yahoo

http://mapping.usgs.gov

- Marconi's web site - chronicles the life of the man who helped start the wireless revolution

- Martha Stewart's web site

- Mechanical Engineering Magazine web site

- Metric Conversion website

- MIT website - listing courses, lab activities and assignments. Great source of new ideas to use in your classes.

- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website with tons of info on safety and crash testing data.

- National Technology Achievement Award co-sponsored by TSA & NASSP

- Click here to visit the Nerd Girls website - breaking the stigmas and stereotypes of women in engineering

- New England Association of Technology Teachers


- NYSCATE Web Site

- N.Y.S. Professional Development Collaborative

- Public Broadcasting Service web site

- PEOPLE LOCATOR
Bigfoot Directory
Hotmail
The Informant
http://www.netaddress.usa.net/
Look Up A Person
Finding People On The Net
People Search

- Project Lead The Way

- Photovoltaics as a Learning Tool

- Photovoltaics in Schools

- Photovoltaic Teacher Resources

- Photovoltaic Web Site - purpose and operation

- Popular Mechanics

- Popular Science - Check this site out to learn what's new.

- Presidental Greetings - for a birthday, anniversary, etc..

- Queensbury MS Tech Program Site

- Radio On Your PC

- Regional School Support Centers

- Renewable Energy Photo Information Exchange - find free photos of solar powered cars and other interesting stuff.

- Repairs Online - information on home repairs

Repair Clinic

Wrenchead

Sears Parts Direct

Live Manuals

- Restaurant Survey

- Rube Goldberg Contest - Click here to go to site

- Site for Science - hosted by Cornell University

- Scientific American Explorations

- Scholarship Search Sites -

College Board College Plan Group College View
Financial Aid Fast Web Jayi
FTC Sallie Mae Rams
Go College Yahoo

 

Mapping Your Future has a college admissions and financial aid calendar which lists events to keep track of, making sure you file all your paperwork on time. There are lists of links to find scholarship programs as well as a walk-through on selecting a college and finding financing.

Project EASI (Easy Access for Students & Institutions) walks parents and students through the four steps of financial aid: Planning, Applying, Receiving, and Repaying.

CollegeNET lets applicants complete, file, and pay for their admissions applications for over 350 colleges entirely through the internet.

Education Testing Service is a good starting points for those beginning their financial aid/college search

- School Notes - a free website hosting service for teachers

- School Sites Worth Visiting -

Long Island School Districts

Central Kings Rural HS, Cambridge, Nova Scotia, Canada

Donate your old computer.

- Shopping? - Looking For A Bargain? Try these sites:

Bargain Dog

BizRate

Gomez

Mercata

My Simon

Price Grabber

PriceScan

- SLIDE RULES ANYONE? - a site offering thousands of slide rules for sale.

- Smithsonian Institution

- Soap Box Derby

If your town or city would like to sponsor a soap box derby, please contact Mark Izzo one of the event coordinators and also an Auburn West Middle School Technology Education Teacher who also has a West Middle School sponsored car. Contact Mark at MA1220@a-znet.com or call him at 315-252-3570, for further information.

- Solar Energy - Become a Sun Chef - WNET

- Space and Rocket Center

- Speedtraps

- Spell Check On Line

- Stone Test Wall - The stone test wall was constructedÝ to study the performance of stone subjected to weathering. It contains 2352 individual samples of stone, of which 2032 are domestic stone from 47 states, and 320 are stones from 16 foreign countries. Over 30 distinct types of stones are represented, some of which are not commonly used for building purposes. There are many varieties of the common types used in building, such as marble, limestone, sandstone, and granite. This site presents the existing data and pictures for eachÝ particular stone.

- Stu Soman's web page

- Teachers First

- Teacher Talk - Indiana University

- Teachers Helping Teachers

- Teachernet.com

- The TECH Dictionary

- Tech Directions Online

Need a new activity for your students in a hurry? Is 5 minutes fast enough for you? Visit Tech Directions website to download immediately a new activity to try with your class.

- Tech Museum of Innovation

- Technically Speaking

- Technology at Home - lets you trace back through last century and find out when certain devices were invented.

- Technology Education Resources an interesting web site created by Steve Mikulski a tech ed teacher in Maryland.

- Technology Education Associations

Connecticut Technology Education Association

Technology Education Association of Maine

Western New York Technology Education Association

Wisconsin Technology Education Association

- Techno-Rich-Fun

- Tech Speak Explained

- This to That - a web site that gives advice in determining what adhesive to use for different materials and situations.

- Tickets Online Sites:

Ticketmaster

Ticketweb

CultureFinder

Tickets.com

MovieFone

Tixx.com

- Tool Crib

- Our Favorite Toys - WNET

- Great Travel Sites -

Expedia

Orbitz

- Traveler Magazines

- Uniondale Public Schools - Tech. Dept. Homepage - Henry Chu webmaster

- US Census Information

- Visit the USS Kitty Hawk on the web

- Virtual Factory Home Page take a virtual tour and find out general information about a company and it's product range and cost.

- Wacky Side Trips

- Watch and Clock Museum - Columbus, PA

- WEB TECH - SUNY Stony Brook on-line instruction site

- WEATHER Sites

www.weather.com
http://www.doppler.net/
Satellite Pictures of U.S.

- Web Cam Sites:

Hollywood


- Web Sites Especially For Girls

Society of Women Engineers
Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network
ÝCelebration of Women in Engineering
NASA Women's Outreach Initiative

 

- Western New York & Niagara Technology Education Associations Web Page

- West Point Bridge Designer - great bridge design program

- The Why Files - the science behind the news

 

- WNET Technology Lesson Plans - Reach for the Sky - a web site that describes an activity you can do with your technology class. Students build a skyscraper and will be able to:
Define the roles of an architect, a structural engineer, and a systems engineer.
- List the ten tallest buildings in the world.
- Give examples of different construction methods for skyscrapers.
- Synthesize construction technologies in building systems.

- Bill Waite's Homepage

- Wright Brothers Information

Centennial of Flight

The Wright Experience

Inventing Flight: Dayton 2003

- World Association of Technology Teachers

- Bill Youngfert's Personal Home Page


If you have some suggestions for additions to this list, or have a personal or school web page to be added to this growing list, please send this information to me at :

Nick Cimorelli

 

This page was last updated on 2/20/04.

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