Feel free to use these links to Curriculum Resources, Professional Bodies and Blogs/Forums to provide instructional resources, to link to professional resources and to connect to like-minded people.

CURRICULUM RESOURCES  

Initially these links will be in alphabetical order. As more links are added this will change.

1. BC IRPs - Applied Skills
2. BC IRPs - Science
3. Curricula Ideas - 300 K-12 robotic/engineering topics from NASA
4. Design and Technology Review - from the BBC
5. Electricity: the Basics - from the Canadian Science and Technology Museum
6. Electricity: Building an Electric Motor - Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, USA)
7. Electricity: Making a Circuit Board - Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, USA)
8. Engineering: Intro through LEGO grades 1-3 - 20 meg PDF - from Tufts University (USA)
9. Engineering and Comp. Sci.: Intro for Elementary Grades - 8 meg PDF - from Tufts University (USA)
10. Engineering: Mouse Trap Unit - PDF - from Tufts University (USA)
11. Engineering: Roller Coaster Unit - PDF - from Tufts University (USA)
12. Gears - Foothills High School, San Jose California, USA
13. History of robots - PDF - from the Canadian Space Agency
14. LEGO Engineering Units - grades 3-5 - from LEGO Engineering, USA
15. LEGO Engineering Units - grades 6-8 - from LEGO Engineering, USA
16. Robotics Curriculum - Middle School - from Carnegie Mellon University, USA
17. Robotics Curriculum - High School - from Carnegie Mellon University, USA
18. Robotics - VEX Curriculum 2.0 - from Carnegie Mellon University, USA
19. Robotics in Space - from the Canadian Space Agency
20. Robots Week 2011 - from iRobot Corporation
21. Robotics - SPARK Educational Resources - from iRobot Corporation
22. Simple Machines - from the Canadian Science and Technology Museum
23. Structures and Shapes - from the Canadian Science and Technology Museum

PROFESSIONAL BODIES/FORUMS  

Here are a few links to colleagues who are also interested in Robots and Robotics.

1. BC Technology Teachers' Association
2. Educational Technology Council - Alberta Teachers' Association
3. Washington State Industrial Technology Education Association
4. Technology Educators Association of Manitoba
5. Ontario Council for Technology Education
6. International Technology Education Association
7. Design and Technology Association - United Kingdom

and

1. Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists
2. Skills Canada
3. World Skills International
4. IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
   

FORUMS/BLOGS  

1. LEGO Message Board
2. SPARK forum
3. VEX 2010-2011 Competition Forum

Your contributions and suggestions are always welcome. Feel free to contact us through the email links below.

Thanks.

Stewart Savard (eLibrarian) and Randy Grey (Career Coordinator)