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E-Learning/ModulesEnergy Systems
In this engaging course, students explore various technological systems in the relevant context of sustainable and alternative energy. Students discover how alternative resources such as solar, wind, nuclear, and hydropower are used to produce energy. Students learn about hybrid vehicles and fuel sources such as hydrogen, electricity, and ethanol. Students learn how construction and design methods are used to create energy-efficient buildings and how existing homes can be retrofitted to increase their energy-efficiency. Students investigate ways to protect the resources we harvest.
Using the supplied experiment kits, students generate electricity from renewable sources, design a solar energy system based on electricity needs, and extract hydrogen from water by electrolysis.DURATION: 45-75 HOURSIntroduction to Green Technology
Introduction to Green Technology considers why research in sustainable and alternative energies is so important today. The threats to human and environmental health posed by fossil fuel consumption are explored.Course Outline
Lesson 1: Natural Resources and Environmentalism
Lesson 2: Pollution and its Effects
Lesson 3: Sustainable and Unsustainable Energy; Fossil Fuels
Lesson 4: The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change
Lesson 5: Efficiency and Alternative EnergyResource Conservation
Resource Conservation investigates natural resources and how they are used in industry, agriculture and everyday life. It addresses our degree of dependence on the environment, and ways to protect resources. Students acquire an understanding of how technology and science play important roles in conserving, preserving, recycling and monitoring the health of the environment; assisting in the proper disposal of waste; and how to wisely use natural resources for the benefit of all.Course Outline
Lesson 1: Natural and Renewable Resources
Lesson 2: Nonrenewable Resources
Lesson 3: Conservation in Industry
Lesson 4: Conservation in Manufacturing
Lesson 5: Waste
Lesson 6: Soil Conservation
Lesson 7: Water Conservation
Lesson 8: Ecosystems
Lesson 9: Wildlife
Lesson 10: Conservation as a Community EffortAlternative Energy
Alternative Energy explores scientific advances that are making alternative energy more affordable and efficient. Students discover how alternative resources such as solar, wind, nuclear and hydropower are used to produce energy. Relevant activities demonstrate how turbines generate electricity from renewable energy
sources, such as moving air and water. Science and math objectives are addressed as students participate in activities such as calculating their own home’s electricity needs and designing a solar energy system based on those needs.Course Outline
Lesson 1: Introduction to Energy
Lesson 2: Energy Types and Electricity
Lesson 3: Energy, the Environment, and Hydropower
Lesson 4: Geothermal Energy
Lesson 5: Wind Energy
Lesson 6: Solar Energy and Career Connections
Lesson 7: Solar Power and You
Lesson 8: Nuclear Energy
Lesson 9: Other Types of Alternative EnergyGreen Transportation
In the Green Transportation course, students learn about hybrid vehicles and vehicles powered by green fuel sources including hydrogen, electricity, and ethanol. Students conduct activities such as an electrolysis experiment that separates hydrogen from water. They also learn steps they can take now to reduce fuel consumption.Course Outline
Lesson 1: The History of Transportation
Lesson 2: Drilling and Refining Oil and the Internal Combustion Engine
Lesson 3: Hydrogen and Electrolysis
Lesson 4: Hydrogen Experiment and Electric Vehicles
Lesson 5: Hybrid Vehicles
Lesson 6: Transmissions and Hybrid Disadvantages
Lesson 7: Alternative Fuels
Lesson 8: Solar and Wind Energy in Transportation
Lesson 9: Ways to Reduce Fuel Consumption NowGreen Construction
This course explores methods of construction and design used to create self-sustaining, energy-efficient structures. Students explore design strategies and technologies used for retrofitting a home to meet green concerns, as well as ways to design and construct a green home from the ground up. Students are introduced to passive solar heating and cooling systems, water temperature management, and various technologies that can harvest electricity for direct use. Additionally, students will investigate Energy Star, ecological building, and numerous careers in the green construction field.Course Outline
Lesson 1: Introduction to Energy Efficiency and Green Construction
Lesson 2: Solar Home Planning
Lesson 3: Shading
Lesson 4: Glazing
Lesson 5: Thermal Mass
Lesson 6: Insulation
Lesson 7: Integrated Passive Solar and Passive Solar Cooling
Lesson 8: More Ways to Harvest Energy
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E-Learning/ModulesExploring Communications
In the Exploring Communications Technology course, students explore the history of various types of media and their impact on society. Students learn to edit digital video using the tools and techniques used by professional video editors. They investigate digital photography basics, such as digital camera features and operation, file formats and image quality. Photo editing and manipulation techniques are also examined.
Hands-on activities include building pinhole cameras, editing digital photos and video segments, designing graphics and applying graphics to a t-shirt.DURATION: 45+ HOURS
Introduction to Communications
Introduction to Communications gives students an overview of communication, media creation, and the impact of media on society. Communication’s history and purposes are the foundation of the course, focusing on how and why messages are sent to various types of audiences. Students focus specifically on design concepts and theories involved in graphic communications. The course addresses a spectrum of communication and media concepts including camera operation, the evolution of digital photography, the digital media revolution, and the relationship of audiences to a history of mediums, including telegraphy, radio and film.Course Outline
Lesson 1: Basics of Communication
Lesson 2: Design Concepts
Lesson 3: Print and Photography
Lesson 4: Digital Media
Lesson 5: Distributing Media
Introduction to Communications: ConclusionDigital Photo Editing
The Digital Photo Editing course focuses on procedures for editing and manipulating digital photographs. The course uses graphic design software to explore basic editing techniques and tools. More complicated processes are introduced later in the course as students familiarize themselves with photo manipulation. By course completion, students will have experience with image editing techniques such as cropping, resizing, dodge and burn, adding and subtracting color and painting.Course Outline
Lesson 1: Digital Photography Basics
Lesson 2: Input, Process, and Output
Lesson 3: Size Editing
Lesson 4: Layers
Lesson 5: Color and Desaturation
Lesson 6: Text
Digital Photo Editing: Conclusion
Digital Photo Editing: Challenge SectionGraphic Design
In the Graphic Design course, students explore color use and theory, typography, page layout, image resolution and more. They work with these concepts using in image editing software. They also design and create their own images, both on paper and digitally, for familiar print mediums such as flyers, posters, and billboards.
Relevant projects include creating and printing a design on a T-shirt and designing advertisements for a school sports team, club or organization.Course Outline
Lesson 1: Introduction to Graphic Design
Lesson 2: Tools of the Trade
Lesson 3: Typography
Lesson 4: Color
Lesson 5: Page Layout
Lesson 6: Image Resolution and Size
Lesson 7: Printmaking
Graphic Design: Conclusion
Graphic Design: Challenge SectionDigital Video Editing
In the Digital Video Editing course, students study many of the tools and practices commonly used by professional video editors. This includes creating and editing video clips, inserting titles and still images, crafting transitions, using music and voice-overs and more. Students apply each new skill to producing a complete video.Course Outline
Lesson 1: Introduction to Video Technology and Production
Lesson 2: Trimming and Arranging Video Clips
Lesson 3: Using Titles and Images
Lesson 4: Text and Transitions
Lesson 5: Types of Edits and Cuts
Lesson 6: Picture-in-Picture
Lesson 7: Music, Sound, and Voice-Overs
Lesson 8: Creating DVD Menus
Lesson 9: Making and Posting Videos for the Internet
Lesson 10: High Definition Technology
Digital Video Editing: Conclusion
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E-Learning/ModulesExploring Robotics
Intelitek’s Exploring Robotics program provides an easy-to-implement solution for delivering early engagement and discovery of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) topics for middle school students. Topics are perfect for 9-week programs and implementation is a snap. Exploring Robotics includes everything needed out of the box, ready to use including the VEX IQ Super Kit and Intelitek’s easyC v5 programming software. You can choose flexible packages based on your class size.
Exploring Robotics can open up unlimited possibilities for middle school students.
Course Outline
Introduction
- Using LearnMate
- What are Robots?
- Driving the Model
- Natural vs programming languages
- Introduction to easyC
Basic Robot Movements
- Set Motor Speed
- Set Motor Time
- Set Motor Rotation
- Turning the Model
- Conclusion and Challenge
Repeating Actions – Loops
- Forever Loop
- Repeat Loop
- Variables
- While Loop
- Conclusion and Challenge
Reacting to Events – Conditional Branching
- Branching with Variables
- Touch Sensor – Output to LCD
- Touch Sensor – Controlling Motion (Part 1)
- Touch Sensor – Controlling Motion (Part 2)
- Conclusion and Challenge
Touch LED
- How Does it Work?
- Touch LED as a Touch Sensor
- Touch LED for Visual Feedback
- Touch LED for Indicating Distance
- Conclusion and Challenge
Ultrasonic Distance Sensor
- How Does it Work?
- Sensor Output to LCD – LED
- Rotating the Sensor to Detect an Object
- Moving the Model to Detect an Object
- Conclusion and Challenge
Color Sensor
- How Does it work?
- Sensor Output to LCD – LED
- Detecting Earth Properties
- Searching for a Mineral
- Conclusion and Challenge
Gamepad
- Arcade Control
- Single Motor Control
- Sending Variables
- Conditional Branching Using the Joystick
- Conclusion and Challenge
Compass – Using Gyro
- How Does it work?
- Sensor Output to LCD – LED
- Returning Home
- Final Program (Part 1)
- Final Program (Part2)
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E-Learning/ModulesInnovation and Invention
Innovation and Invention explores the relevant topic of transportation technologies. Students learn about the history of various methods of transportation including land, sea, air, and space. Students learn about careers in various transportation industries. Students connect with the technology through hands-on activities like building gliders, rockets, and CO2 dragsters.DURATION: 45-60 HOURSIntroduction to Transportation
In Introduction to Transportation, students discover how land, air, marine, and space transportation help move people and materials. They explore the history and advancement of various transportation systems. Throughout the course, students also examine careers in the transportation and related fields.Course Outline
Lesson 2: Getting from Here to There: The Development of Roads
Lesson 3: Moving Vehicles Faster: Fluid Dynamics
Lesson 4: Water Transportation
Lesson 5: Moving Faster Still: Aerodynamics
Lesson 6: The Great Unifier: Rail Transportation
Lesson 7: The Mechanization of Transportation
Lesson 8: Traveling with Freedom: The Automobile
Lesson 9: Taking to the Skies: Air Transportation
Lesson 10: Beyond Earth: Space Travel
Lesson 11: Other Types of Transportation
Lesson 12: The Global Positioning System: A New Way to NavigateAerospace
Aerospace explores the research and development of aircraft, aerospace history, industries and careers. Hands-on activities enable students to put into practice the research and design principles they learn throughout the course.Course Outline
Lesson 1: Introduction to Aerospace
Lesson 2: Getting Off the Ground – Aerospace Engineering
Lesson 3: Air and Aircraft – The Earth’s Atmosphere
Lesson 4: Keep Flying – Aeronautics
Lesson 5: How We Fly – The Aerospace Industry
Lesson 6: Designs on Space: Astronautics
Lesson 7: What is Space?
Lesson 8: Places in Space & How We’ve Gotten There
Lesson 9: The Effects of Aerospace on Other IndustriesAviation
In this course, students learn aviation principles and study the different forms of navigation. Students use a flight simulator to test flight physics and gain hands-on experience with flight control and navigation. Students also explore flight by examining aircraft components, reading a terminal area chart and creating their own flight scenario.Course Outline
Lesson 1: Airplane Structure
Lesson 2: The Physics of Flight
Lesson 3: Flight Controls
Lesson 4: Cockpit Instruments & Simple Plane Control
Lesson 5: Navigation
Lesson 6: Course and Heading
Lesson 7: Landings
Lesson 8: Flight Scenario CreationResearch And Design: Automotive
In the Research And Design: Automotive course, students explore and apply the principles of design. Student examine fundamentals of automobile design, such as aerodynamics and energy efficiency. In hands-on activities, students explore the process used in industry to produce a marketable product and apply the design process to craft their own paper car. They also study the marketing process and design an advertisement for the paper car.Course Outline
Lesson 1: The Fundamentals of Design
Lesson 2: The Design Loop and Design Briefs
Lesson 3: Automotive Technology and Design
Lesson 4: Generating Ideas
Lesson 5: Design Sketches
Lesson 6: Aerodynamics and Wind Tunnel
Lesson 7: Marketing
Lesson 8: Advertising
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E-Learning/ModulesIntroduction to Competitive Robotics
Introduction to Competitive Robotics is a streamlined curriculum that brings the dynamic educational value of robotic competitions to more VEX teams, as well as high school and middle school classrooms.
Introduction to Competitive Robotics consists of fourteen hands-on activities enhanced by interactive media, videos and simulations. The curriculum can be hosted and delivered via Learnmate.com, intelitek’s e-learning management system, or installed on a local computer or network.
Through step-by-step activities covering robot assembly and programming, teams learn to build and program a competitive robot for both autonomous and operator control. Activities enable teams to quickly understand and apply the concepts many teams struggle with, like encoders, ultrasonic, line followers and PID control.
Introduction to Competitive Robotics includes
step by step instructions delivered in an accessible self-paced online format.
interactive simulations and animations of assembly and programming procedures.
links to launch easyC® software* directly
from the content.Introduction to Competitive Robotics brings the benefits of the VEX Cortex microcontroller and easyC® for Cortex robotic programming software to help more students become exposed to robotics, competitions and engineering!
Featuring the VEX Cortex Microcontroller
The VEX Cortex Microcontroller coordinates the flow of all information and power on the robot. It has built in bi-directional communication for wireless driving, debugging and downloading using the state of the art VEXnet 802.11 wireless link. The Microcontroller is the brain of every VEX robot.
*requires easyC® for Cortex software, sold separately.
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E-Learning/ModulesRobotics Engineering Curriculum (REC)
Everything you need to begin a successful program aligned to national STEM standards – just add students!
REC delivers comprehensive instruction aligned to national STEM standards via hands-on activities and compelling online curriculum, all centered on three core features:
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- LearnMate curriculum with Learning Management System (LMS)
- VEX Coding Studio (VCS) Robotic Programming Software
- Robust VEX® V5 Robotics Hardware
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