GTT
Gateway To
Technology
Teacher:
Mrs. Johnson
2007-2008 SMS Robitics Competition is December 19, 2007
Gateway To Technology’s (GTT) cutting-edge program addresses the interest and energy of middle school students, while incorporating national standards in mathematics, science, and technology. GTT is “activity oriented” to show students how technology is used in engineering to solve everyday problems in units of study. There are currently four instructional units that excite and motivate students to use their imagination and teach them to be creative and innovative, while gaining the skills they need to develop, produce, and use products and services.
The GTT curriculum provides project-based learning—a hands-on approach--that is exciting and fun for the full-range of students in today’s grade 6 – 8 classrooms and that relates technology to students’ daily lives. It also promotes communication and collaboration by emphasizing a teaming approach in the instructional units. This approach utilizes the strengths of each team member to accomplish the goals of the project, while offering students learning challenges at all ability levels.
GTT currently consists of four independent units that should be taught in conjunction with a rigorous academic curriculum. The units are designed to challenge and engage the exploratory minds of middle school students. Each 10-week unit contains performance objectives and suggested assessment methods. The four units are:
Design and Modeling, Science
of Technology, Automation and Robotics, and Magic of Electrons
GTT Standards
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