Resources

Science Curriculum Standards

• Benchmarks for Science Literacy
• National Science Education Standards
• North Carolina Standard Course of Study: Science
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) /National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Students

Current Research and Best Practices

• How People Learn  by John Bransford et. al.
• Bransford, Joh D., Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking, Editors. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School. expanded edition. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2000.
• Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, 1998. Published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), Alexandria, VA (www.ascd.org)
• Inventing Better Schools by Philip Schlechty
• Schlechty, Phillip C. Inventing Better Schools: An Action Plan for Educational Reform. The Jossey-Bass education series. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997.

Learning through Performance Tasks

• The Definition of Performance Assessment
• Assessing Student Outcomes: Performance Assessment Using the Dimensions of Learning Model

Website Resources

• CEE Children's Engineering Educators, LLC
• Virginia Children's Engineering Council
• International Technology Education Association
• Technology Education for Children Council
• Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
• Technology Design Briefs from Virginia Department of Education
• Discover Engineering
• PBS Kids Go: Design Squad
• The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
• By Kids For Kids - World's Largest Site for Kid Inventors