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TIES 2001 Curriculum
The TIES curriculum modules are cross-referenced in the menu below:
As part of the 3-week TIES externship experience, each participating team of educators is required to develop an interdisciplinary curriculum unit. Each unit contains applied academic-based classroom activities and lessons that relate to the industry experience of the team and some specific student competencies. The format of the curriculum units is based on that developed by the National Center of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing Education at the AIM Center at Sinclair Community College.
The following is a list of all of the curriculum modules developed in TIES 2001
Teachers in Construction
This module is an interdisciplinary unit of career orientation and development, personal development, and use of technology as a learning tool, integrated with the basic learning skills. Construction or Building Trades is the art or business of constructing, raising, and establishing buildings. Construction or Building Trades is a particular means of livelihood, usually manual or mechanical, which a person learns and engages in building using personal, career, and technological skills.
Download the curriculum (.pdf format - 43KB) here.
Counseling Activities for Developing Resiliency and Responsible Behavior in Students
Students in our world face many challenges. Their lives are filled with continuous change. Major changes caused by divorce, moving, drug/physical/mental abuse, unsupervised homes, as well as many minor changes have increased the number of students who do not come to school ready to learn. Basic resiliency is often missing because parents lack time, commitment, or understanding of the importance of this skill. Many parents are unable to provide for basic needs, so many children lack the knowledge and skills to deal effectively with their own concerns. This unit includes nine lessons with activities to help students deal with the most common problems: Social Skills, Decision Making, and Anger Management.
Download the curriculum (.pdf format - 96KB) here.
Hands in the Garden
This unit will provide teachers with pre-visit and post-visit lessons related to the vegetable garden at the Learning Tree Farm. The curriculum includes lessons on plant anatomy, seed needs, sorting seeds, soil, earthworms and composting, how seeds travel, life cycle of plants, how seeds sprout, how seeds grow, and plants as food. The curriculum is designed for Grades K-3. The approximate time required would be 4-6 weeks.
Download the curriculum (.pdf format - 1.546KB) here.
Fun With Flight
No curriculum available.
Fourth Grade Entrepreneurs
In this unit, we study some of the skills used by an entrepreneur of a small business. Students research possible products to sell, then make a determination of which product will be successful. Students will then study advertising and create advertisements for the product. Lastly, students will make the product and sell it to their fellow students. The culminating activity requires each student to go through the entrepreneur process independently, selling this product in a Fourth Grade Market Place. This unit will encompass four weeks.
Download the curriculum (.doc Word format - 31KB) here.
Inventing Flight
Inventing Flight will focus on the history of the Wright brothers, their contemporary, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the process of invention, and construction and experimentation. Site visits to the Aviation Trail historic sites in the Dayton area are intended to be a part of the curriculum unit. Kites and gliders will be constructed and tested by the students in a fashion similar to that used by the Wright Brothers.
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Identification, Location, and Tracking of Nursery Stock
As in most industries, the nursery industry deals with large quantities and varieties of stock, and the organization of this stock. Using technology to organize and track stock is necessary to keep pace with the demands of the modern market place. This unit presents organization skills, identification skills, and database skills as they pertain to organizing data, stock, or information. The specific application is for biology - plants and nursery stock. Substitution of various "stock items" might make these skills applicable to other industries and classes. A minimum of six class periods with additional homework or computer lab work will be necessary to complete this unit.
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Marketing Tools to Increase Revenue
This unit includes methods of teaching marketing strategies and enable the teacher and students to experience practical business situations. These include starting a business, hiring marketing personnel, and increasing company sales. The sections are designed to expose students to current technology and marketing practices using software applications, the World Wide Web, and innovative techniques. The projects are designed to simulate actual marketing and business conditions. After completion of these projects, the student will have a realistic concept of marketing strategies and business practices.
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Robotics in the Classroom
Today more than any other time in history, robots play a significant role in everyday life. For the average person, it is impossible to go through a day without coming into contact with a robotic device. It is the intention of this unit to introduce grade 7 and 8 students to the development of robotics during the 20th and 21st centuries, while illustrating the prevalence of robots in the world today. Students will use the scientific method to come up with their own designs for a robot that could be useful in their daily lives. Although the subject of robotics is extremely vast, we have selected just a small portion to cover in this unit. Teachers should plan three to four weeks to cover the lessons.
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Flight
The students will learn the history and science behind flying an airplane. This curriculum was developed in conjunction with our placement at WPAFB. We learned the dynamics of air traffic control and what competencies contribute to running an airport. There are various career opportunities including airplane mechanic, air traffic controller, pilot, and aeronautical engineer. This unit is designed for middle to high school students. This unit would last 4-5 middle school days or about 900 min total plus a full day reserved for a field trip.
Download the curriculum (.doc Word format - 785KB) here.
National Hall of Fame Career Exploration
The National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) is made up of people who made significant contributions to the world of flight. Naturally, many of these people were, or are still, aviators. However, some of the enshrinees were not directly involved in flight. Some of the enshrinees were never on an airplane. Some of the enshrinees were well known for accomplishments outside of the world of aviation. Career exploration is a thematic focus for eighth grade curriculum in the state of Ohio. In this unit, eighth grade students will explore a variety of careers, and will work together in teams to plan, organize, and start their own business. Students will identify the interaction between different occupations in order to make a business successful. This unit will require approximately 15 class days.
Download the curriculum (.pdf format - 36KB) here.
Ohio Reptiles
No curriculum available.
Toward Becoming an Inventor
The National Aviation Hall of Fame deals with people. These people, who were visionaries, and who devoted their lives to the field of aviation, were often also inventors who were forced by necessity to redesign and create new devices to make flight succeed. Students will discover through the writings and the inventions of these people, how exact communications could make a difference and how their visions and needs furthered the course of aviation. The recommended grade level for these activities would be 11th/12th graders. The unit length would be approximately three weeks (15 days). An attempt has been made to formulate activities and learning outcomes to include all students with different levels of ability and different learning styles.
Download the curriculum (.pdf format - 70KB) here.
Microscopes: History and Uses
The use of microscopes is prevalent throughout the high-tech world today. This curriculum unit introduces students to the history of microscopes and the various types of microscopes and their uses. It also requires them to research various careers in which knowledge of microscopes is essential. The unit is designed for students at the middle school level, preferably sixth grade.
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Integrating Computerized Learning Systems in the Classroom
Our purpose is to develop an educational bridge from middle school academic units - math, health, and social studies - to a computer integrated learning system. The Mathematics portion of the unit should take 28-35 hours of instructional time, the Health section approximately 80 hours, and the Social Studies piece 30-36 hours to complete. Mathematics activities address areas of whole numbers, decimals, and fractions. Health activities address the body systems, our senses, and emotional well-being.
The Social Studies activities address the three branches of government at the three levels of involvement - federal, state and local. All activities use hands-on computer-aided learning.
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Huffman Prairie Flying Field
This curriculum was designed particularly for Huffman Prairie Flying Field. The lessons included can be taught in the classroom without going to the field. A culminating project involves the students role-playing the early 1900's and the public's reaction towards the Wright Brothers'. The entire unit would take approximately two weeks to complete. We suggest this be used in grades 5 through 8.
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The Government as Protector
In manufacturing, adherence to federal regulations dealing with the protection of both the workers and the consumers takes time, energy and financial resources. Often, these mandated protective measures do not have an obvious return on investment. This 6-week unit is designed to familiarize high school students with three federal agencies - OSHA, FAA, and FDA - which exist to protect workers and consumers, and have relevance to workplace, school, and home safety.
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We PRODUCE
This unit is designed for any organization or individual that wishes to be effective by using techniques learned through the use of the scientific method. The process taught involves identifying the problem, reducing and simplifying it, organizing and observing data around the problem context, discovering and understanding solutions, cooperating, educating, and communicating the result. The unit is designed for students in middle school and high school, and will take approximately fifteen hours to complete.
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Topics in the Web-Supported Classroom
Each section in this curriculum unit may be integrated through related role-plays or actual events. We envision here a hypothetical technology fair to be held at the school. The students in would provide the infrastructure to be used by each participant to demonstrate their products, services, or activities. Students will then set up a "booth" to show their classroom project results. Students will use their created websites as a virtual technology fair, both as a means of advertising their products/services availability to other students soliciting exhibitors and as part of their exhibits for display.
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Magnetic Explorations
The microwave, CD player, VCR, DVD and the automobile are an integral part of everyday life for most students. Very few, however, realize that magnets are essential for the operation of these devices. Careers involved with these devices and many other similar ones involve the study of magnetism. All motors and generators contain magnets. Electrical engineers and Material Science engineers would top the list of careers that need to study magnetism. Other careers would include electrical technicians, automotive repair technicians, medical technicians. In this unit we are trying to interest students in these careers by generating enthusiasm in the study of magnets. This unit is designed for 11th and 12th graders. The time required would be approximately 15 hours.
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Creating a Safehouse
This unit is intended to help students become aware of safety hazards and accident prevention and make judgments and decisions in taking appropriate steps, as determined by standards adhered to by industry and community organization leaders, to apply emergency first aid treatment. This unit encompasses the basics of accident prevention and emergency first aid treatment. The unit may be incorporated into health studies, family and consumer education, driver education, language arts, sports, and other areas of study. The target student population for this unit is grades 7 through 12. Estimated total length of the unit is twenty-five hours.
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Xerox
Students will complete a series of activities intended to enable them to explore the responsibilities of a salesperson, and practice basic sales and marketing concepts and techniques.
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Integrating Technology in the Workplace
This module is designed for any organization that has a need to integrate numerous software programs. Since the workplace is constantly evolving and technology is constantly being changed, the need to expedite correspondence is in demand. This module would create awareness in students as to the practical applications of business software as they transition from school to work. The recommended grade level is 11th or 12th since a prerequisite would be a foundation in Beginning Keyboarding. Required time to successfully complete this module would be six to ten hours.
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Not in My Back Yard!
What to do with hazardous waste? Our modern society produces it, but can we find a way to deal with it? This curriculum module is designed to teach students the chemistry behind the chemical processes used in hazardous waste management, regulatory issues related to hazardous waste facilities, and communication skills used in the environmental industry. The students will gain an understanding of issues surrounding hazardous waste, how some industrial facilities are dealing with hazardous waste, how hazardous waste is regulated and what impact this has on their community. The chemistry and applied communication sections would be easily adaptable to a wide variety of industries. The curriculum is intended to span several weeks.
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Many of the TIES curriculum documents are provided as Adobe PDF files. In order to read and print these files you will need to have the Adobe Reader software installed on your computer. To obtain the Reader software go to: www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
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