Appendix B - Learning Resources

General Description: Fifteen-minute video on clean transportation technologies including solar race cars, solar-assisted commuter cars, and electric vehicles. It also addresses the use of renewable crops to produce ethanol.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Energy and Power
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

International Tele-Film Enterprises Ltd.
Suite #301, 5090 Explorer Drive
Mississauga, ON
L4W 4T9
Tel: (905) 629-3133
Fax: (905) 629-1211

General Description: Twenty-minute video examines a variety of renewable and non-renewable energy resources, their uses, concerns, and environmental impact. Teacher's guide with glossary, discussion topics, and follow-up activities is included.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Communications, Energy and Power, Self and Society
Grade Level: 7-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

McIntyre Media Ltd.
30 Kelfield Street
Rexdale, ON
M9W 5A2
Tel: 1-800-565-3036
Fax: (416) 245-8660

General Description: Carton of 1800 paper straws 43.2 cm long accompanied by two instruction pamphlets. Activities allow students to discover properties of the straws and learn how to modify a structure using scissors, tape, and plasticine. Complementary print resource is Challenging Artstraws.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Communications, Production, Self and Society
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Louise Kool + Galt Ltd.
Unit 11, 1149 Bellamy Road
Scarborough, ON
M1H 1H7
Tel: (416) 439-4322
Fax: (416) 439-1861

General Description: Student text and activity book teach technical drawing. Essential information is enhanced by numerous and clear illustrations. Answer key provided. Caution: Most measurements are imperial; few drawings are in metric.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Communications
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. (Ontario)
300 Water Street
Whitby, ON
L1N 9B6
Tel: (905) 430-5000
Fax: (905) 430-5020

General Description: Construction and modelling kit of moving gears and parts that are contained inside transparent capsules. The interlocking parts snap together to make a variety of motorized land and water models. The resource engages students in active learning of mechanical and electrical principles.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Energy and Power, Production
Grade Level: 4-8
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Louise Kool + Galt Ltd.
Unit 11, 1149 Bellamy Road
Scarborough, ON
M1H 1H7
Tel: (416) 439-4322
Fax: (416) 439-1861

General Description: Twenty-two-minute video covers how human sensory organs convey information to the brain where it is decoded; what analog and digital coding means; optic fibre, wireless transmission; and the interconnection of computer faxes and modems. This video provides a good introduction to digital electronics.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Communications
Year Recommended: 1995
Grade Level: 9-10
Supplier:

T. H. A. Media Distributors Ltd.
#307, 1200 West Pender Street
Vancouver, BC
V6E 2S9
Tel: (604) 687-4215
Fax: (604) 688-8349

General Description: Student text, student activity manual, and an instructor's manual introduce the variety of ways we use technology to communicate. Topics explored include design and problem solving, measurement systems, sketching, drafting, multiview drawings, and dimensioning.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Communications, Self and Society
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Irwin Publishing
1800 Steeles Avenue West
Concord, ON
L4K 2P3
Tel: (905) 660-0611
Fax: (905) 660-0676

General Description: Student text and instructor's guide focus on the design and problem-solving process and feature problem-solving activities. Material is applied to analyses of a variety of systems. The instructor's guide contains answer keys and transparency masters.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Communications, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 9-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Nelson Canada
1120 Birchmount Road
Scarborough, ON
M1K 5G4
Tel: (416) 752-9100
Fax: (416) 752-9365

General Description: Canadian student text and instructor's guide emphasize design as the critical element driving the technological process. Problem-solving activities and career profiles are included. The guide provides evaluation tools, answers, and blackline masters.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Communications, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 9-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. (Ontario)
300 Water Street
Whitby, ON
L1N 9B6
Tel: (905) 430-5000
Fax: (905) 430-5020

General Description: Thirty-two-minute Australian video explores questions in contemporary design using the camper trailer, or caravan, as the example. Architects from around the world were commissioned to create innovative designs for discussion. Manufacturers in turn produced working prototypes.
Audience: General Gifted - open-ended problem solving and design
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Communications, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 9-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Classroom Video Inc.
9005 Centaurus Circle, Unit C
Burnaby, BC
V3J 7N4
Tel: (604) 420-3066
Fax: (604) 420-3095

General Description: Resource kit provides an introduction to pneumatics and hydraulics through theory and practical, hands-on activities. Support structures and several circuits can be constructed.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Energy and Power
Grade Level: 7-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Spectrum Educational Supplies
2102 Elspeth Place
Port Coquitlam, BC
V3C 1G3
Tel: (604) 942-5835
Fax: (604) 941-1066

General Description: Multi-format resource introduces students to the principal fields of technology.Visually rich, it provides challenging problem-solving activities. Components include: introductory student text, student workbook, student video, annotated teacher's text, resource binder, teacher's video, computer test bank in Macintosh or MS-DOS format.
Audience: General Gifted - extension in activities LD - concept development, highly visual, appropriate vocabulary, other forms of communication such as group presentation, speaking versus writing
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Communications, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 6-8
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. (Ontario)
300 Water Street
Whitby, ON
L1N 9B6
Tel: (905) 430-5000
Fax: (905) 430-5020

General Description: Student text, non-reproducible student activity manual, and an instructor's manual explore the topics of transportation, energy, and power from a historical to futuristic perspective.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Energy and Power, Self and Society
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Irwin Publishing
1800 Steeles Avenue West
Concord, ON
L4K 2P3
Tel: (905) 660-0611
Fax: (905) 660-0676

General Description: Twenty-three-minute video provides an introduction to hydraulic and pneumatic power systems with discussion of applications, social impact, and comparison of the two systems.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

McIntyre Media Ltd.
30 Kelfield Street
Rexdale, ON
M9W 5A2
Tel: 1-800-565-3036
Fax: (416) 245-8660

General Description: Four books cover mechanisms, structures, electronics, and pneumatics. Each book contains a collection of design problems, skill-building activities, and a reference or research section. Designed for the British National Curriculum.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Communications, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Bacon & Hughes
13 Deerlane Avenue
Nepean, ON
K2E 6W7
Tel: (613) 226-8136
Fax: (613) 226-8121

General Description: Twenty-five-minute video examines numerous stages in planning a video, developing ideas, storyboarding, and casting. Techniques such as lighting, in-camera editing, and animation are demonstrated. Student-centred activities show how to plan and produce using just one camera.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Communications, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 7-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

McIntyre Media Ltd.
30 Kelfield Street
Rexdale, ON
M9W 5A2
Tel: 1-800-565-3036
Fax: (416) 245-8660

General Description: Twenty-minute British video shows students working in groups to design kitchens based on efficient use of space for two different situations. It walks the viewer through a series of steps for design and problem-solving strategies, while emphasizing scale drawing and modelling.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Communications, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 7-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Marlin Motion Pictures Ltd. (Man.)
418 Waterloo Street
Winnipeg, MB
R3N 0S8
Tel: (204) 489-6185
Fax: (204) 489-0347

General Description: Modelling kit has more than 500 interlocking parts which snap together to make a variety of working, control-related models. Models can be interfaced with the computer in Macintosh or MS-DOS to perform control functions. Reference guides and a literature pack are included.
Audience: General ESL - visuals and manipulatives LD - hands-on activities
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Energy and Power, Production
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

LEGO Canada Inc.
380 Markland Street
Markham, ON
L6C 1T6
Tel: (905) 887-5346
Fax: (905) 887-1274

General Description: Systems Set has 282 interlocking parts which snap together to make a variety of manufacturing related models such as conveyor, drill press, dough mixer, jewellery polisher. An activity pack comprises teacher guide and reproducible design briefs. Models can be customized. The tool promotes active learning of mechanical and electrical principles.
Audience: General, ESL - visuals and manipulatives, LD - hands-on activities
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Energy and Power, Production
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

LEGO Canada Inc.
380 Markland Street
Markham, ON
L6C 1T6
Tel: (905) 887-5346
Fax: (905) 887-1274

General Description: Student textbook begins with a general discussion of technology in a changing world, resources for technology, problem solving, and systems. Subsequent chapters apply this to analyses of a variety of real situations. A teacher's resource guide supports the activity-based instruction.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Communications, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Nelson Canada
1120 Birchmount Road
Scarborough, ON
M1K 5G4
Tel: (416) 752-9100
Fax: (416) 752-9365

General Description: Twenty-six-minute video features the life of Elizabeth Gale, an 81-year-old furniture maker from Newfoundland. Completely self-taught and using just a few tools, she developed her own style of folk art furniture.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 6-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Moving Images Distribution
402 West Pender Street, Suite 606
Vancouver, BC
V6B 1T6
Tel: (604) 684-3014
Fax: (604) 684-7165

General Description: Fifteen-minute video illustrates primary and secondary manufacturing processing including: casting and molding, forming, separating, conditioning, assembling, and finishing. Also discussed are properties of manufactured materials.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Communications, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

McIntyre Media Ltd.
30 Kelfield Street
Rexdale, ON
M9W 5A2
Tel: 1-800-565-3036
Fax: (416) 245-8660

General Description: Seventeen-minute video uses dramatization to illustrate the requirements of manufacturing systems: material resources, human resources, and capital resources. It explores renewable and exhaustible raw materials, industrial materials, and engineered materials.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

McIntyre Media Ltd.
30 Kelfield Street
Rexdale, ON
M9W 5A2
Tel: 1-800-565-3036
Fax: (416) 245-8660

General Description: Seventeen-minute video uses dramatization to illustrate manufacturing systems: continuous, intermittent, and custom. Discussion includes a comparison of strengths and weaknesses, as well as requirements in terms of tools, equipment, and workers.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Communications, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

McIntyre Media Ltd.
30 Kelfield Street
Rexdale, ON
M9W 5A2
Tel: 1-800-565-3036
Fax: (416) 245-8660

General Description: Twenty-minute British video explores the principles behind a well-designed parking lot. It shows students in groups brainstorming and working toward a conclusion and solution.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Communications, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 5-8
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Marlin Motion Pictures Ltd. (Ont.)
211 Watline Avenue
Mississauga, ON
L4P 1P3
Tel: (905) 890-1500
Fax: (905) 890-6550

General Description: Collection of seven books organized around three themes: "forces and energy," "material," and "communications." The books contain a large number of student activities and experiments related to each concept.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Communications, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 6-8
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Copp Clark Longman Ltd.
2775 Matheson Boulevard East
Mississauga, ON
L4W 4P7
Tel: (905) 238-6074
Fax: (905) 238-6075

General Description: Book explores the history and development of structures including buildings, bridges, dams, aqueducts, and roads. Clearly detailed scene-setting diagrams are used. A comprehensive glossary is included.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Production
Grade Level: 6-9
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Random House of Canada Ltd.
1265 Aerowood Drive
Mississauga, ON
L4W 1B9
Tel: (905) 624-0672
Fax: (905) 624-6217

General Description: Ten-minute video provides an introduction to robotics and the principles of robotics movements using industrial applications as examples. It shows how Cartesian co-ordinates are applied to program the robots for three-dimensional movement. Questions are posed to viewers during the video and highlighted by examples.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 7-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Marlin Motion Pictures Ltd. (Man.)
418 Waterloo Street
Winnipeg, MB
R3N 0S8
Tel: (204) 489-6185
Fax: (204) 489-0347

General Description: Fifteen-minute video addresses the safe operation and set-up of bench and pedestal grinders. It covers installation and testing of grinding wheels, grinding wheel classification, dressing, and safe grinding procedures.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Production
Grade Level: 9-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Safetycare Inc.
3354 Tennyson Avenue
Victoria, BC
V8Z 3P6
Tel: 475-6775
Fax: 475-6705

General Description: Four 30-minute titles in this British video series explore the video recorder, the sewing machine, the vacuum cleaner, and the telephone. The series provides an entertaining look at technology in our everyday lives. It uses a "mad scientist" who examines topics from historical and operational perspectives. Caution: Some experiments lack a solid approach to safety; teachers must address concerns.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Communications, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

International Tele-Film Enterprises Ltd.
Suite #301, 5090 Explorer Drive
Mississauga, ON
L4W 4T9
Tel: (905) 629-3133
Fax: (905) 629-1211

General Description: Reproducible investigations provide a technological approach to math and science. The major focus is on an aerodynamics theme: concepts such as trigonometry and Bernoulli's Principle are explored through a Technology Education problem-solving approach.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Communications, Energy and Power, Production
Grade Level: 5-9
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Spectrum Educational Supplies
2102 Elspeth Place
Port Coquitlam, BC
V3C 1G3
Tel: (604) 942-5835
Fax: (604) 941-1066

General Description: Textbook covers the fundamentals of small engine construction, operation, maintenance, trouble-shooting, rebuilding, repairs, and related career opportunities. Hands-on activities are suggested. A workbook and teacher's guide are available.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Energy and Power, Self and Society
Grade Level: 9-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Irwin Publishing
1800 Steeles Avenue West
Concord, ON
L4K 2P3
Tel: (905) 660-0611
Fax: (905) 660-0676

General Description: Twenty-two-minute video explores the history and development of recording information, from book form to vinyl LPs, to laser and CD, as well as analog and digital storage systems. It explains the development of mechanical recording systems ranging from vinyl LPs to laser-etched discs.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Communications
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

T. H. A. Media Distributors Ltd.
#307, 1200 West Pender Street
Vancouver, BC
V6E 2S9
Tel: (604) 687-4215
Fax: (604) 688-8349

General Description: Book promotes practical ideas and concepts related to power, energy and controls, especially electrical. Black and white design sketches provide information about using a variety of materials, ranging from everyday to sophisticated, in order to encourage technological activities in the classroom.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Energy and Power
Grade Level: 7-9
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Technology Teaching Systems
Unit 2 - 45 Basalatic Road
Concord, ON
L4K 1C5
Tel: (905) 660-3933
Fax: (905) 660-3056

General Description: Collection of six books: Planes and Flight, Land Transportation, Space, Canals and Waterways, Ships and Shipwrecks, and Bridges and Tunnels. Each book provides a historical and international approach to its topic, and gives background information. Some activities are suggested. Large, colourful visuals enhance the text.
Audience: General Gifted - opportunities for independent study
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Communications, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 6-8
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Nelson Canada
1120 Birchmount Road
Scarborough, ON
M1K 5G4
Tel: (416) 752-9100
Fax: (416) 752-9365

General Description: Book provides some philosophy of technology education, implementation ideas, processes for evaluation, and numerous project ideas that tie technology education to other curricular areas.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Communications, Energy and Power
Grade Level: 5-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Prentice Hall Ginn Canada (Ont.)
1870 Birchmount Road
Scarborough, ON
M1P 2J7
Tel: (416) 293-3621
Fax: (416) 299-2539

General Description: Resource package provides an introduction to technology through hands-on activities. Components include student textbook and workbook, teacher's annotated textbook and manual, resource binder, reproducible material, transparencies, tests, answer keys, safety handbook, and career handbook. Software in Apple, Macintosh, or MS-DOS provides test banks. Caution: Measurements are imperial, not metric. Teachers will have to convert these measurements for classroom activities in student text and student workbooks.
Audience: General Gifted - extension activities
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Communications, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. (Ontario)
300 Water Street
Whitby, ON
L1N 9B6
Tel: (905) 430-5000
Fax: (905) 430-5020

General Description: Activities package consists of Macintosh or MS-DOS computer disks and print material organized into 12 units or "spokes": computer programming, lasers, engineering, aerospace, electronics, laser light show, aerodynamics/ propulsion, holography, aeronautics, wind energy, solar energy, and telecommunications/space links. Activities can be delivered without the computer through the use of program printouts.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Communications, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 8-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Advance School Equipment
Box 488
Ponoka, AB
T4J 1S8
Tel: 1-800-465-7737
Fax: 1-800-661-6676

General Description: Student workbook and teacher's guide provide a framework for a hands-on approach to electronic components. Resource focusses on recognition and understanding of electronic components, ability to read and work with simple schematic diagrams and real circuits, and developing manipulative skills.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Energy and Power, Production
Grade Level: 7-8
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Spectrum Educational Supplies
2102 Elspeth Place
Port Coquitlam, BC
V3C 1G3
Tel: (604) 942-5835
Fax: (604) 941-1066

General Description: CD-ROM with an entertaining and interactive design features a program that provides information on a variety of technological topics using visuals and sound very effectively. Format allows the student to move easily through various levels of scope and depth. Requires Windows PC. Macintosh version under development.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Control, Communications, Energy and Power, Production, Self and Society
Grade Level: 4-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Irwin Publishing
1800 Steeles Avenue West
Concord, ON
L4K 2P3
Tel: (905) 660-0611
Fax: (905) 660-0676

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