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MITES Teacher Resource Data Base

Welcome, this page was designed to help Industrial Education Teachers find resources that will help them become more effective teachers. The links below will guide you to lesson plans, tips, and ideas. Great teachers are unselfish and willing to help other teachers in the main quest to, “Educate and excite kids, making a difference in young lives.” Please submit your tip, lesson, or great idea so that this data base will continue to grow (to learn how see below). Also please pass this page along to others so they can benefit.

Automotive Technology/Small Engines

ุ      Waxing your Automobile Lesson Idea

ุ      Small Engine Test

ุ      Auto Tool List – Test over tool list

ุ      OIL CHANGE QUIZ  

ุ      http://www.cordonline.net/michigan/ - A Link on Infusing Mathematics into Automotive Technology Instruction

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

Building Trades/Construction Trades

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

ุ      Construction Trades Career Search

ุ      Estimation Project

ุ      Wood Foundation Lesson Idea – Research on Wood Foundations

ุ      Building Trades Final Exam Example

ุ      Playhouse Project - Plans / Templates

ุ      www.homesofourown.org – Free program that simulates the entire house building process

ุ      http://www.mcta1.org/ - Michigan Construction Teachers Association

CAD (Computer aided drafting)

ุ      Activity Book Assignment

ุ      Paper Dreams

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

CAM (Computer aided machining)

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

Cabinetry

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

Composites

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

Drafting Architectural

ุ      Architectural Model

ุ      Castle Assignment

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

Drafting Mechanical

ุ      Dimensioning 

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

Engineering

ุ      Rocketry – Two part set: PART:1 PART :2

ุ      Hot Air Balloon Project

ุ      Chair Design

ุ      Homeless Shelter Design

ุ      Cellular Phone Information

ุ      Pattern Development Exercise

ุ      Grading Ideas

ุ      Design Process: Power Point Presentation

ุ      Egg Packaging  

ุ      http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/  - Great engineering site (bridges, skyscrapers, etc.)

ุ      Bridge Engineering Unit- Neat! Complete unit

ุ      Bridge Tower Unit – Another Complete Unit!

Electronics

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

Finished Carpentry

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

Machine Trades

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

ุ      Blueprints for Beginning machine Trades Projects 

Plastics

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

ุ      Life Casting

ุ      One Piece Urethane Block Mold

ุ      Making a Silicone Rubber Mold

ุ      Laminating Acrylic Plastic

Residential Wiring

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

Welding/Metal Fabrication

ุ      Arc Welding Safety Test

ุ      Arc Welding Quiz

ุ      Chopsaw Safety Test

ุ      Sheet Metal Money Saving Tip

ุ      Sand casting – Student - Master

ุ      Metalworking Tools I.D. Test – Answer Sheet – Study Guide for Tool I.D. Test

ุ      Tips on Welding passes

ุ      http://media.pearsoncmg.com/alt/activebook2/construction/Welding/ - Wow! Great Welding Lessons, etc.

ุ      YOUR GREAT IDEA GOES HERE

Woodworking, General

ุ      Lesson Idea for Wood Expansion and Contraction

ุ      Project Planning Sheets (four part set)   #1   #2    #3    #4

ุ      LARGE COLLECTION OF PROJECT PLANNING SHEETS

ุ      Principles of Planning

ุ      SEE A LIVE TABLESAW KICKBACK!!

ุ      Router Safety Rules

ุ      How it works Display Board

ุ      Project Grading System

ุ      Finding the Middle

ุ      Calculating Board-Foot

ุ      Wood Mallet Project

ุ      Collection of Woodworking Safety Tests – Another Collection of Woodworking Safety Tests

ุ      Woodworking Joint Lab

ุ      Hardwood/Softwood/Sapwood/Heartwood QUIZ

ุ      “How To” Pen Making Video

ุ      Build a Display Case Powerpoint – 8th Grade Project

ุ      MSDS ON WOOD DUST

ุ      General Lab Safety – Part 1

ุ      General Lab Safety – Part 2

ุ      Dovetail Lesson Plan

ุ      Table Standard Dimensions

ุ      Trimester Exam Example

ุ      Finishing Steps

ุ      Woodturning Safety

ุ      Screws & Sandpaper Worksheet

ุ      Vocab pretest/posttest

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

Woodworking, Advanced

ุ      Woodworking for the Future

ุ      Advanced Bending

ุ      Traditional Bow making Procedures

ุ      Traditional Bow Material Ordering Questions

ุ      Traditional Bow Making Lessons

ุ      Traditional Bow Making Movie Lesson – Traditional Bow Making Power Point Presentation

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

State Standard Info – NEW Category!

ุ      Visual, Performing & Applied Arts Crosswalk

ุ      Applied Arts Curriculum

ุ      Applied Arts Curriculum 2

ุ      Applied Arts Curriculum 3

ุ      Applied Arts Curriculum 4

ุ      Applied Arts Curriculum 5

ุ      Michigan’s Visual, Performing, & Applied Arts Standards

Sub-Plans (Things for the class to do while you are gone) & Brain Teasers

ุ      Measurement Activity - Internet

ุ      Build a fun Trebuchet (Catapult)

ุ      Battle Bots Model

ุ      Checkerboard Activity – Picture of the activity

ุ      Pool Balls – Answer Key

ุ      Chimney

ุ      Circles – Answer Key

ุ      Cut ups – Answer Key

ุ      President Fun – Activity – Answer Key

ุ      Phone Puzzles  1          2         3         4

ุ      3way - Answer

ุ      Farmers Field – Answer

ุ      Handy – Answer

ุ      3 stars – Answer

ุ      Object B

ุ      Snagging Lesson

ุ      Typing Challenges Solved

ุ      Geometry Exercise

ุ      Geometry Exercise 2

ุ      Math Fun

ุ      Pirate Fun – Solution

ุ      King 1 -  King 2

ุ      Was Pythagors Right?

ุ      Cube Faces – Solution

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

UPDATE YOUR CLASS SYLLABUS!

SEE SOME EXAMPLES BELOW

6TH Grade Industrial Arts

General Industrial Arts (Wood Tech One)

WoodTech 1 Syllabus – Woodtech 1 Powerpoint on Syllabus

CAD

Advanced Wood Technology

Beginning Metal Technology

put your syllabus idea here

Evaluation Tips

ุ      Grading Rubric / Evaluation Sheet

ุ      Self-Evaluation Journal

ุ      Daily Performance Card: Idea 1

ุ      Daily Performance Card: Idea 2

ุ      Daily Performance Card: Idea 3            Reverse-side of Idea 3

ุ      Your Great Idea Goes Here

Ideas That Fit all Topics

ุ      Some Ideas for Enhancing Student Productivity

ุ      Interesting Article about Industrial Education !  

ุ      Think Questions - a great way to get kids writing

ุ      Safety Glass Policy & Lab Rules

ุ      What to do when students are absent

ุ      Class Description Examples  

ุ      Safety Glass Violation Articles

ุ      Safety Poster

ุ      Calling Home

ุ      Shop Bill Letter

ุ      Wheel of Clean Up

ุ      Clean up voucher

ุ      2007 Convention Assignment

Other Links

www.powertoolinstitute.com – Contains great info on power tool safety.

Project Ideas – Click here to see pictures of projects & VIDEOS!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/  - Great engineering site (bridges, skyscrapers, etc.)

 

    http://woodtube.ning.com/?sssdmh=dm17.526641&esrc=nwwood051911f&email=2040093951

 Wood Tube – Neat videos of woodworking projects, etc.

 

http://www.lincolnelectric.com/leextranet/community/newsletters/en-us/

Newsletter with projects from Lincoln Welding

http://www.millerwelds.com  Welding Project Ideas from Miller

Michigan’s Visual, Performing, & Applied Arts Standards: VPAA Credit Standards

MMC VPAA Alignment Tool Sample I

MMC VPAA Alignment Tool Sample II

Watch a video (search for ‘VPAA’) of the testimony from Superintendent Flanagan and MITES Jeff Goulasarian, explaining VPAA

Thanks for helping to make this data base a success!!!

 

Submit your tips, ideas, and lesson plans in MICROSOFT WORD FORMAT (to make it easy ) TO: svheyser@saugatuckps.com

Or mail a hard copy to:

 

Vince Heyser

6086 146TH Ave.

Holland, Michigan. 49423