City Technology Curriculum Guides

小行星9618767 技术被广泛地定义为包括构成设计世界（而不是自然世界）的所有人工制品、系统和过程。学生生活中的例子包括玩具、电器、用具、家具、衣服、钟表和日常生活的紧固装置、家具的安排、学校日的组织以及促进学校内交通顺畅的方法。 城市技术课程指南提供了帮助孩子们分析现有技术和开发，构建和测试自己的设计的想法。主题包括结构，绘图，机制，环境分析和设计，编码信息，固定和紧固，电器和玩具，和测量时间。一份平行的讲习班领导人指南是为负责专业发展讲习班的教师教育工作者编写的。 该指南的开发是纽约市立大学工程和教育学院以及纽约中小学教师的共同努力。暑期工作坊向一群经验丰富的教师介绍现有的材料和新的主题。在最初的两个学年中，他们将在课堂上试用四个指南。在项目的第三年，新指南将在纽约市地区的两个地点、东北部的两个地点和全国其他地点的两个地点进行实地测试。在完成实地测试和编辑后，指南将在市场上销售。

9618767 Benenson Technology is broadly defined to include the entire array of artifacts, systems and processes which constitute the designed - as opposed to the natural - world. Examples in the lives of students include the toys, appliances, utensils, furniture, clothing, timepieces and fastening devices of everyday life, the arrangements of furniture, the organization of the school day, and methods of facilitating smooth flow of traffic within the school. City Technology Curriculum Guides provide ideas for helping children to analyze existing technologies and to develop, build, and test their own designs. Topics include Structures, Mapping, Mechanisms, Environmental Analysis and Design, Coding Information, Fixing and Fastening, Electrical Appliances and Toys, and Measuring Time. A parallel Workshop Leader's Guide is intended for teacher educators responsible for professional development workshops. The development of the Guides is a collaborative effort of engineering and education faculty at CUNY City College and elementary and middle school teachers in New York. Summer workshops introduce the existing materials and the new topics to a group of experienced teachers. Each of the first two academic years, they will pilot test four Guides in their classrooms. During the third year of the project, the new Guides will be field tested in two sites in the New York City area, two sites in the Northeast, and two sites in other locations across the nation. Upon completion of field testing and editing, the Guides will be available commercially.