Technology Zone Curriculum

The Technology Zone curriculum is designed to provide a total learning experience in each technology module. Academic concepts are reinforced as students combine math, science, reading, and social studies with technological advances and systems in career applications. The curriculum helps students to understand the usefulness of the technology and to learn its real-life applications for problem solving in today's society. The curriculum has been developed by educators and experts in each technology area to provide outcome based modules that are benchmarked to state and national standards.

Each lab manual is provided in a three-ring binder, with pages contained in page protectors. Using full color photographs, each manual provides:

Career Component

Each module introduces students to a trade. The manual gives the student an idea of what it would be like to actually work in that trade, including information on job conditions, necessary education or training, an income potential.

Terminology and Identification of Equipment

The student is introduced to the key terms and definitions pertaining to each trade, and to the equipment and materials unique to that trade.

Step-by-Step Activities

Once introduced to career information, terminology, and equipment, the student begins a "hands on" work experience, using professional tools to complete projects or tasks.

Audio Tape

An audio tape is included that follows the manual work-for-word, providing the auditory component of the triple stimulus learning format. It aids the students in pronunciation of important terms and provides reinforcement of the written instructions.